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The Middlesex CodMURDER IN WHITECHAPEL* JACK THE BIPPEB * AGAIN AT WORK. ESCAPE OF THE MURDERER.AN IMPORTANT ARREST.TTt* Whitechapel dbtriot of Lcoion was again thrown iol« o state of alarm oo Friday by the nows that another woman hod bean mnraoroJ in that locality. A toHco cooatablo passing at a quarter-Put two Is the mooning through as archway of the Great Eastern Railway loidiog fronRailway loading from a alum colled Swaliow-gnrdons to Orman street. aaw a fcody lying in the middle of tho thoroughfare ; and, on exoosin-ing the praaUatc figure, dimorered It to be that o! a woman, the uppor portion of whoee body ni covered with bleed flowing from a terrible woand In the throat, which had almcet oorn-p'ctoly soared the windpipe. In tonjonctlon with another officer, who oame at the summons of tho whistlo, a slight examination waa made of tho body, which was quite wanr, and from whioh, a«a false beating of M^dee denoted, life had notquite departed. Farther nasleUnee was at once summoned, and a messenger was dUpatohed for Mr. Philips, the divisional ssrgtoo, who rssdds* Is the vicinity, and who was on th* spot In a very brief time. The.urReon found that life was on thoHi*surgesp-ilnt of extinction, srvd the onfortnesto woaisn. In fact, expired before she oould ho plsced upon tho stretcher which hod been brought to convey her to the Leman-street Police-station. She gave not the slightest rign of cooeciousnoss daring th* qsarter o! an hour or twenty mUiutei which elapsed between her discovery and her doath, and all, of coarse, that could be done »t the moment was to take note cd the appearance of th* victim nrd her surroundings. As far as could bo judged, the murdered women was of the ego o! 25 or 2T. She lay with her Sect crossed, and with ooe arm straight by her side, and tho other partially covering her breast. At her side lay a bitck crape hat, much th* worse for weir. On further examination at the mortuary, sha was found to bo clotb'd la a braided black jackal, a black skirt and bodies.• petticoat, grey ccrsot, striped cotton stockings and tattooed boots, and blnok volvet bandfitted oloeelv to the neck. In Uie pocket of thedress was a black vulcanite e«r ring, ccrrwtwndicg * i three pie re* ofto one wore in the lofi ear, L-esidr* orape, an old striped slocking, and a comb. Considering that people of hor oluu—she was no doubt an unfoetunato—usually carry about them all the olothlng they poiiose, it is not by anyInexplicable, though still a littlo rcunarkablo, that ih* should hav* hud aMcoud orapw hot with this artiole hanging: hall out of tho pocket, on If It had b»*o ossually thrust tlivro.As won a* tho alarm was given, a nambir of higher police officials were quickly on the spot. A searching examination was mode of the vicinity, without adding mooli to tho knowledge already gained beyond the discovery of a Sorbs, which was found behind a horizontal rain water pipe, and whioh may or may not hove belonged to eno murdered woman, Vat whioh Is hardly likely, n» ha* Nen suggested, to have boon concealed thore by her. Wi-.ea the examination was conoladed, a portico of the hlood-stalnod earth was lakee, and tli« roil of the blood washed away before th* archway was oponoi for tralli.The reone of the murder is almost In the centre of o network of flumi lying on tho right of the Whitechapel-read. It hue Iwoo said to Vo a special resort of womou of the lowest doit, but there is really no tangible evidence I hat such Is the on»e. The to ildings in the vicinity consist of a number of largo warehonrcs and store rooms, nod some twenty ce thirty tenocnccts of tho poorest klta. Tho arohway ii about fifty feet In length, lighted at both ends, but very dark In tho middle: not, however, so dark w to hare proven:od tho con-stable who flret dlrcovered tho body from welng It even bofore he utod hli lantorn. One eld* of the arch Is uerd as a builder's etore, and Is boardedand tho other side forms thenamed Selina, fa olio koown to be living at King*-land. The deceased waa at one time engaged as o labeller at a wholosole ohemisfe factory in the Minor) es. The doreased occasionally took her meals at 8hnttlsworth'e Collee Hoose, la Went-worth streoL Miss 8haMle«orth lays she know hor well, but only ae a customer. She was a simple vary Inoffemsire, oad as timid as a baoy. t know her real name, andCS?She did not know her real name, and generally called hec Georgina, but ebe was mostly railed Frances. Strang- to say. It was only a few daysay that ehe was talking nbouS Jack the Ripper,'■hom she eremed dreadfully afraid. Unfor-tun-rely she need to drink very heavily, and she met with a fall one night when eho wat drunk. I boUeva, added Mire ShaMleworth, the had a sister living at 12, W’ara-street, Klageland-road. It war sho who gave her tb* blade ailln bodice she was wearing when aha met her death. She was in mourning for her brother, who died reoeotlyr AN IMPORTANT ARREST.Almcet every day sinoe the discovery of the murder numbers of persons have boon taken into custody by the police oil suspicion, bat In each raw tho pereon apprehooded waa speedily liberated. On Saturday, however, on arrest was made whioh at first eeemwd likely to lead to something ol Importance. It appears that about half-past two on the morning of tho murder, before the now* had spread, a man whoso clothe* were atalood with blood, wo* aeon by a poiioe rorgcant oo Tawer-hUI, and from fact* whioh wore afterward* gleaned, tending in Ih* opinion of the poiioe to associate him with Ue murder, be was troocd and arretted. HU name is June. Thomu Sadler, oad he I* described as a ebip’s fireman. The Pol ire detained him at Lemaostrotc Station, but did not lake him technically Into oastody, no charm being prcferred against him. When raked to explain his movemeata he roadlly agrocd to do *o. He said that ho woo a firemen oo board the steamer Pot la the St. Katharine Docks, and had known the deooaacd for eomo time H* mot hor on Wednesday and ofur they Iwd been atout drinking during tho day. they went to what Is koown a* a double lodglng-houre InDotes*-street, SpltolSoMt, whore 'they paasodtl» night. On Thursday be was about a good deal and tbsy undoubtedly hod too much to drink, consisting principally of gin and clove*. She naked him for tomu money in ocder to bay a hat, and he, after telling her thatbe thought she might hotter spend her money ' • ’ .... * hflr j~j£in buying »om* ondorolothing, gave a-crown. Sho bought the hat, which cnrr.o to about two shilling*. The two In the oonrao ol thoit waudorloge about tho district came Into in Ih* evsolng to Thrawl-strost, where the man wanted her to stay with him for the alght. They want to a common lodging-house, and stayed only a little while, oa tbo woman wished to go back to Dorse t-street. In Thrnwl MroM thoy had »om* argument, in the midst of which, oa alleged by nadlor, a women cam* up and struck him on tbo brad with some Instrument, whioh ratted him to faint. In corroboration of thlt, he drew the attention of the polio* officer* to hi* head, upon which was a nasty wound, from which blood bad apparently freely ffowod on to hie olothlng. Some otliorjmnp.it he asswrlsd, ——op, and tho otherup, led forthor 111 treated him! When ho oeine to ifsln, tbera people had gone, and only tho woman who had been hie oomponlon remained. He up-braided her for not having attomptrel to defend him, and charged hor with Ulng the cause of the wsaule. Thoy quarrelled and ho loft her. This wm octwoea ten and clovon o’clrck at night. He mode hi* way to the dooke with the intention of going to Itla ship, but whon he got thore Ih* gate-kerners ro-fesod to ndinit him horaow of hi* Intoxicated slato. For some Umo he lingered around the sate, abasing tho oflklal*. In tlte midst of this some lookers ramo along, and ho at onto fell foul of Awn, and In all probability world hav* teen rouehly bandied by them but for tho pretense of a polleo-errgeant and constable. His noxt move wa* towards the Victoria Home lor Sailors, with th* intention of soaking shelter (Of the olcllt, In thisrtandlag brelde the fire-plaos In tbr of the Iloine, when a mao, wbooremember provlou.ly to have Institution and got Into oonver.atii remarking tint ho had beeo out all n didn’t feel at all well; and that he w A* be spoke,•’ Campbell prooseded, a vslosblo looking knife, and offered t I said to him ’Tiiat Isn't an Englfal He replied 'Not I bought It in Am rcme ferthor oanverastion. I agreed aim, and I gavo him a shilling for ii went on to say that since effecting th h*l wnabad the knife and resold it; that the water In whioh he washed coloured, as though by blood. Too time in bringing Campbell into tb Rvdler, whom lie promptly recognl* who had sold him lire knife It wsa Ii of thla freah avldsnc* In the cue tl for mail v charged Sadler with the mot. Coie. Th* charge »na read river t:before midnight on Sunday by Inspro tho Criminal Inv«tlgation Departrrprisoner betrayed considerable *mi time. He was subwqoeotly conveys Arbor square polleo station, where I la a call. Ha waa taken before th* Thame* Police-court on Monday nfU after eome im tier ant evidence had h was remanded until Tuoeday next, tho proreoillugs is given bolow.The knif. purehiiml by Campbell r Home is a prculUr oce. The bln ibon*. 6ve Inches long, is carved, an:point. It is a clasp'knife, and the (vsnvy metal no*. Campboll sn/ormtthat he hod sold it to a store dealer 10a, wbo lived in Dock-aareet Tt proceeded to too addrcai indicated, r lauton of tho kalfo. It U stated tl iid not wholly dispose of Ii to thi rotainod tho right to buy Ii back. 1 it*tad that tho knife waa bluet w to him, and that he put an lt;In fact, he aaid, “ I out my dli It yaaterdoy,* A woman who shoo added: Y«s, and ho out I with It also. He always bu a bit Sunday aftoraoona.” It is stated tha icniod over having had the knife la h: tnd on this point, it is Voltovod, irldemoo Is forthcoming. Tho wrap ihown to Mr. l’hllllps, tho division lt;node a postmortem ojamlmtloo of tl Tho evldcnco against Sadler Is dUlia ating, and If eomo of tbo clue* aow In ho poiioe should b*ar Invostlgaiioo, h rery difflou'.t ohara* lo wwwer. Attl he police oro decidedly of opinion tl rullty ol this crime or not. ho is not ho Ripper for whem thoy have I locking.rnisoNxn xsrnxe the Sadler was brought up at the Th ourt on Monday and charged with I’rlsooor, whaso age wm given as 03, * ui a ships fireman. Suporlntendeot ind Chlo! Inspootor Swansea watched iho Commisafonore of Poiioe. Tha a tloood In tho dock preeonled a strango loth oyos were lil-ckouod, oad thee ithor murk of Injuri** about tho tppoarad to l« •llll esfforlng from t Irinlt. During IheovlilMtc* ho listened iml frequoutly intorroptwl. It wo luporlntoadcut Arnold tlwt he had nunloatlwn with tlio Public Prrarcul itructod him to I alio only sufficient asllfy a ivmau-l Samuel Hurii* snl.l ho woo a fish Ivod at S. WhitoVrow, Splulfiolds. iho hoaso ahout lulf past 0 on Tliar* aat. Hu tlioto saw a woman wbo sy the name of KrauoN. She was 'orm, with hrr heiui re-ting on a the kitchen of tne lodging hou Saif coat eleven tho prisoner cam
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Middlesex Courier
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Feb 20, 1891
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