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13inssh.d.aleyiat30THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERSTHE BUCK’S ROW INQUEST.Mr.‘ Wynne Baxter resumed the inquest yesterday afternoon at the Working Lads’ institute, into the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Nicholls. who was found murdered in Buck’s-row, on Saturday morning, the 1st Instant.Mr. Thomas Ede, a signalman, was the first witness called, and said that since the last hearing (Monday) he had seen a man who he at first thought i- had a wooden arm, and whom the police had rs arrested on another charge.—The coroner said that that case had been fully inquired into; the man was a well-known character, but from inquiries made by the police they were satisfied that he was innocent of any complicity in this case. The man j»s alluded to was the man that Mr. Ede saw with a a£ large knife in the Cambridge-heath-road. He lives 0f in Clara-street, Bethnal-green, and is said to be a q. harmless lunatic. He has, however, on various ocea-;;h 6ions exhibited a knife in a menacing manner, but as to to why he is allowed to go at large with it there was no explanation.* Dr. Llewellyn stated, in reply to a juror, that nora;cj part of the body was missing.101(3I8aA member of the jury pointed out that it was [y I stated in the newspapers that on the last occasion rtf the Foreman of the Jury had offered a reward. The r’ fact was it was not the Foreman of the Jury, but S(J another gentleman.5. THEORIES. HELD BY THE CORONER.ie The coroner, in his summing up, referred to the y necessity of a public mortuary in Whitechapel, and ie continued as follows:—The time at which the body h I was found cannot have been far from 3.45 a.m.t as it is fixed by so many independent data. The condi-n | tion in which the body was found appears to prove )- conclusively that the deceased was killed on the exact f spot inlwhich she was found. There is not a trace of k I blood anywhere, except at the spot where her neck_ was lying. 1 think we cannot altogether leave un’ noticed the fact that the death you have been in-)f I vestigating is one of four presenting many points of Lt | similarity, all of which have occurred within the space of about five months, all within a very short £ I distance of the place where we are sitting. All four victims were women of middle age, all were married II and had lived apart from their husbands in conse-o quence of intemperate habits, and were at the time 6 of their death leading an irregular life, and eking I out a miserable and precarious existence in common lodging-houses. In each case there were abdominal, as well as other injuries. In each case the injuries were inflicted after midnight, and in places of public resort, where it. would appear impossible but that almost* immediate detection should follow the crime, and in each case the. inhuman and dastardly criminals are at large in society.11 Emma Elizabeth Smith, who received Her injuries in Osborn-street on the early morning of Easter Tuesday, the 3rd of April, survived in the London hospital for upwards of 24 hours, and was able to state that she had been followed by some men, robbed and mutilated, and even to describe imperfectly one of them. Martha Tabram was found at three a.m., on Tuesday, the 7th of August, on the first floor landing of George-yard-buildings, Wentworth-streefc, with thirty-nine punctured wounds on her body.In addition to these, and the case under your con-J | sideration, there is the case of Annie Chapman, still in the hands of another jury. The instruments used in the two earlier cases are dissimilar. In the first it was a blunt instrument, such as a walking-stick ; in the second, some of the wounds were 11 thought to have been made by a dagger; but in the two recent cases the instruments suggested by the medical witnesses are not so different. Dr. Llewellyn says the injuries on Nicholls could have been produced by a strong bladcd instrument, moderately sharp. Dr. Phillips is of opinion that those on Chapman were by a very sharp knife, probably with a thin narrow blade, at least s»x I ^ to eight inches in length, probably longer. The st similarity] of the injuries in the two cases is con- \{ siderable. There are bruises about the face in both sc cases; the head is nearly severed from the body a in both cases; and those injuries have again in each di case been performed with anatomical knowledge, hi I suggest to you as a possibility that the two women x Nicholls and Chapman—may have been murdered 10J by the same man with the same object, and that in | st the case of Nicholls the wretch was disturbed before he had accomplished his object, and having failed inI p3 the open street he tries again, within a week of his I sc failure, in a more secluded place. If this should w be correct, the audacity and daring Is equal to its m maniacal fanaticism and abhorrent wickedness. It now only remains for you to say by your verdict, how, when, and by what means the deceased came by her death. It?The jury then retired to consider their verdict, 1 and, after an absence of over 20 minutes, they re- Pr turned.3ats1ccc6t8antIvVcewawnClSiCg'fiThe Coroner: Gentlemen, have you agreed uponthyour verdict ? ??hiThe Foreman: Yes, sir. We are unanimously of opinion that we should give an open verdict of Im: murder against some person or persons unknown, ?° and we wish to thank you for your remarks with re- I -le ference to the necessity for a mortuary, and for the a*very able way in which you have conducted the inquiry. 1 afcofTHE VARIOUS THEORIES. coNo furtherarrest has been made this week in con- V nection with the Whitechapel murder. jOu Thursday Rosetta Anderson, a woman residing jns in Pearl-sfcreet, Spitalfields, made a statement to the je“ effect that on the previous evening a ** curious and u:. mysterious man,” as Mrs. Anderson describes him, pe] placed himself on her doorstep, looked around him, Kei and behaved in such an eccentric manner that she ! aj0 thought he was a maniac. He intently watched every j Lr woman as she passed, but, observingfchat he was him-, prc self an object of suspicion, he suddenly darted out | js ( of sight up a court near. Mrs. Anderson believes i that this man was the murderer. His appearance, in almost every respect, answered to the description of the foreigner seen talking with the deceasedJwoman in Hanbury-street on the morning of her I „irancdeath.On Friday it was stated that the man who was ar- j pre rested at Holloway on suspicion of being concerned I Mr in the Whitechapel murder, and subsequently re- »r£ moved and detained at the Bow asylum, would ^ shortly be released. His brother had given satis lac- gag tory explanation as to his whereabouts on the morn-1 ye* ing of the murder. The authorities of the asylum I Joj would not allow the police to interrogate the patient J11 whilst there, as it is against the rules laid down by the Lunacy commissioners. I jarWORK OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. | £ltThe Vigilance committee has so grown in numbers j Sur and its work so increased that the members for the ma( future will transact their business at the Beaumont I (’r c institution. They have just issued the following | poster: “ The East-end Murders.—50/. Reward.— fjiei The above is offered as a preliminary reward to any- mu one who shall give such information as will lead cor. to the detection of the author, or the authors, oi j JJjJ the late murders in Whitechapel.—George Lusk, president; J. Aabohs, treasurer; B. Harris, hon. secretary.” The latest point settled is to organise a j was large public meeting, to which the local Parliamentary I othr representatives and other important persons shall be ITl,r invited, for the purpose of memorialising Government I to offer the terms of a free pardon to any accom-1 scor plice of the murderer whose evidence may lead to a conviction for the crime. Subscriptions are being promised, and the committee hope in the course of a few days to increase this reward by upwards of a hundred pounds.Banscor a s.HenwenHeatfornbohmerfllA
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