London, July 18.
The murder in Whitechapel is far from reviving the excitement occasioned
by Jack the Ripper's fiendish work last September. The fact is people have
all along settled down to the conviction that the murderer was only taking
a vacation, and no one is surprised at the discovery that he has again
appeared to indulge in his pastime of murder. Then, too, the prevailing
idea that the police are impotent to solve the dread mystery serves to
render people callous, as the excitement of the chase after the
perpetrator of the crime is entirely missing. The women of Whitechapel, of
the class to which all of the murderer's victims belonged, are of course
in a perfect frenzy of fear, but otherwise London accepts its last horror
as quite a matter of course. Unless the cunning fiend perseveres in his
bloody work and fresh victims fall beneath his cruel knife, Englishmen
will soon forget the wretch lying mangled old Castle street.
All the persons arrested on suspicion of connection with the Whitechapel murder have been released.
London, July 17.
One more murder has been added to the long list credited to Jack the
Ripper in Whitechapel. The body of a woman, evidently on of the
disreputable frequenters of the district, was found in Castle alley, only
a short distance from where the other murders were committed. The body was
horribly mutilated and bears undoubted evidence of the work of the fiend
whose atrocities in Whitechapel have terrorized the whole district
repeatedly. The police are as far as ever from the identity of the
murderer and seem perfectly paralyzed. The excitement throughout
Whitechapel, when the news of the discovery of a fresh victim of the
mysterious Ripper has spread with lightning rapidity, is at fever heat.
