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THE ATROCITIES IN LONDON.AN ARREST AT TIPTREE THIS MORNING.The Press Association's Bishop Stortford corrsapon-dent telegraphs that a man his been arrested at Tiptree Heath, near there, on suspicion of being concerned in the Whitechapel murders. He asked alms of Sergeant Cres-well, who arrested him. He objected to be searched, and was taken to Kelvedon, where he was detained for inquiries. He answered the description circulated by the Metropolitan police.ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE SELFALLEGED MURDERER.The Central News has received the following letter, bearing the E.C. post-mark, written in red ink, in a round band, apparently by a person indifferently educated. At the foot is a rude drawing of a sharp-pointed knife, the blade measuring three inches and the hsnlle“*31)ctr.—Dear Boss,—Since last splendid success; twe mere, and never a squeal. Ob, lam master of the art. I am going to be heavy on the guilded ■■ now. We are. Seme dutches* will cut up nicely, and the lace will show nicely. Yon wonder how. Oa, we are masters. No education like a butcher’d. No animal like a nice woman. The fat are best. Oa to Brighten for a holiday. But we shan’t idle. Splendid bigh clats women there. My month waters. G od luck there. It not, you will hear from me in the Was# End. My pal will keep on at the East a while yet. When I get a nobility womb 1 will send it on to C. Warren, or perhaps to you, as a keepsake. O. it is jolly, *‘G£Orgb of the High RipGaug.“ Red ink still, bot a drop of the real in it.EXCITEMENT INCREASING.The excitement and indigaation which are app treat in East London have been increased by the startling announcement by Dr Browne at the Inquest that the • imilar prganmis.ing from the body of Anuie Caapman had been cut away from the body of Kate Eddowei, .our d in Mitrc-sqoare. There bad be n a suspicion ot bis fact, which cow renders the murderer's ooiaci the more mysterious, since the doctor is so emphatic in his assertion that the obtaining of these portions of women’s bodies could be of use to medical research. Dr Browne stated that the clever manner in which the left kidney ard the other organ were removed betokened that the murdeier was well versed in auatomy, but not necessarily human anatomy, for he could have gained a certain amount of skill by reason of his being a slaughterer of animals. These remarks conclusively show that the tpme hand which caused the death of previous victims is also responsible for killing Kate Redouts, and in all probability Elizabeth Stride in Berner street, althougb in the latter case he may have been disturbed before he had time to complete mutilation in the peculiaily horrible manner which characterises his fiendish work.WHAT THE BISHOP OF LIVERPOOL SAYS.The Bishop of Liverpool last night at a meeting to raise funds for additional curates in that city, said a number of people in East London were living more like beast* than human creatures. He knew the Whitechapel district and the clergymen ministering there, aud he could quite understand the tragedies which recently occurred. Such a state of things horrified the whole community, and peuple wanted to be aroused to see what men was capable ot if left alone. It snch tragedies aroused the people to a sense of what should ba done in the way of providing sufficient clergy to go from hou-e to honee and room to room, so that no dark place would go unexammed, some good out of evil would cime He agreed with an old diviue, who said that man if left ti bimsslf was half devil and half beast, and Whitechapel was so illustration of it.INFERENCES TO BE DRAWN.[Fbom the ‘•Nbwcastlb Chbonicl* ”]A dense fog still hangs over the atrocious crimes committed at the East End of London. Nor is the thickness of the mist in the leaBt diminished by the amplified details of doubtful accuracy, the dying rumours, and the bits of gossip in general, gathered and retailed by the zealous purveyors of news, and serving but to confuse the brains of those who read them. Nevertheless, the baleful occurrences narrowed dowu to trustworthy sources of information present themselves as facts, and from these facts it is possible to draw inferences.There have been in all six murders committed in Whitechapel in as many months. The first victim was one Emma Elizabeth Smith, who was found badly injured on the early morning of Easter Tuesday, the 3rd of April, in Osborn-atieet, and who, on being removed to the London Hospital, lived for some 24 hoars. Before eke expired she was able to state that she had been followed by several men, robbed, and mutilated. She was even capable of describing, in an imperfect way, cce of her asrailants. In the case of Emma Smith, the nature of her ir-juries favoured the conclusion that they bad been inflicted by a blunt weapon, snch as a walking stick.The second crime was discoveredat three a.m on Tuesday, the 7th of August. Tbeslin woman MarthaTabram or Turner, as she also appears to have been called, was found on the first floor landing of George yard buildings, febe was quite dead at the time, and the examination of her body disclosed that it had received 33 punctured wounds. Borne such instrument as a dagger or bayonet was suspected in this instance; and th3 bayonet obtained in the first place the preference, as there was some evidence to show that the deceased had been the associate of soldiers.The next victim was Mary Ann NichoHs, found on Fndav, the 31st of August in Buck’s tow. There were abdominal injuries of a fearful character in this case, and the woman’s throat had also been cut. It was evident that a knife had been used. Following Mary Ann Nicholls, came Anne Onapman, found on the morning of Saturday, the 8th of September, in the back yard of 23, Hanbnry-atreet. In this instance there was the same abdominal mutilation, accompanied by either the wilful abstraction or accidental disappearance of a particular organ of the body. As wish the woman Nicholls, the throat had been cut.The remaining two murders were committed on the night of Saturday, the 23th of September. The first was discovered at about one o’clock in the yard of 40, Berner street, Commercial-road ; the other was detects! in Mitre-square, Aldgate, a good sizsd yard with three entrances to it, shortly before two o’clock. Tne victims were both womeD, one of whom has been partially but not positively identified. The bodies were still warm, and in the cate of the Berner street crime there were no abdominal mutilations, ttough the throat had been cut. In respect te that of Mitre tquare, however, the characteristics common to the Nicholls and Caapman murders presented themselves.Fcur of the victims were notoriously women who had sunk low in the social icale, and who were reduced to an imgnlrr sort of prostitution, though at time3 they strove to maintain themselves by work. Ot the other two, whose identity is dcnbtfnl, it is impossible to speak with certainty. The probability, however, is that they belonged to the same unhappy class. The crimes themselves were perpetrated all in the same locality, and inJlaces not many hundred yards distant from each other, n something like an hour a man might very comfortably make a tonr of inspection of the variona spots co lec-ilvely.From such facts there are deductions to be made, Emma Smith wss assaulted by several men; Martha Tabram or Tnrner died riddled with punctured wounds. The other four were found with their throats cut, while three were disembowelled. Toe circumstance that the Eerner-street victim did not receive abdominal injuries may, however, ke very reasonably ascribed t j the sudden appearance of Mr Louis Diemschitz in the yard with Lis fctrte and trap. Assuming this, the irresistible infeience is that the murderer cat the tbrots of his victims first, and mutilated them afterward.a. Thispomt ia of some importance, aa one at least cf the medi-’ cal men—Dr Llewellyn—deposed at the inquest held on; Mary Ann Nichclla that he was strongly of opinionthe abdominal injuries were inflicted first, and caused instantaneous death It is clear that the one-man-murder theory will not apply to the case of Emma Smith, the victim of a ruffianly gaDg. Neither does the case of Martha Tabram I or Turner, riddled with 39 punctured wounds, warrantthe assumption with any degree of certainty. The rest ( of the murders favour, however, very strikingly thesuspicion that they have been committed by one person. Yet, who ia be, and why haa be been guilty of auch hideously wanton outrages ?That the slayer ma4 have acquired skill as regards one deadly blow at least with the knife is evideat., Mary Ann Nicholls was killed immediately beneath■ the window of the room in which Mrs Green, an oldwoman and a light sleeper, reposed. The Berner-atreet victim was berried to death in the yard close to the Socialist Club, while Mrs Deimschiiz, the stewardess ' of that establishment, was in the kitchen on the groundfloor, and quite near the precise spot where the crime was achieved. Yet neither Mrs Green nor Mrs Delmtchitz beard a single sound resembling a scream or groan. This betokens tho aura hand with which the throat was dealt, the knowledge of the exact place in’ which the knife would take prompt effect, and thelt; extreme deliberation with which the act was done.The whole circumstances reviewed, the Inference is difficult to combat—in the mind at least of the present a writer—that the murders of Emma Smith and Martha* Tabram, or Turner, were not committed by the samet hand stepped in the blood of the woman Nicholls,Chapman, and their two successors. Smith was mar-dend on April S. Tabram bn August 7. Tne latter revived the reooliection of the former, and both were e e*geriy dweuaeed simultaneously, and nowhere, perhaps,wuh such interest aa in Whitechapel, the locality of 1 the mime. The facility with which murder couldmorbid inbject, disordered by the incredible vanity’ which enters so largely in the composition of a certain cl»ea of criminals and o* whom Percy Mapleton Llt; froy, the assassin cf Mr Gold, may be cited as a fair example ? But it is not necessary at all to assume that this monstrosity in the shape cf a man bails from America, or to identify him with any particular creed oc race. He might well be an Englishman, a resident in Whitechapel, who, from sheer vanity, from a desire to posture before the world as remarkable, would engage even in such atrocities as have been perpetrated.BEAGLES AS DETECTIVES.An old sportsman writes as under to the Poll MM Gazette :—Your article of this evening has been rexd tome (being totally blind now, I cannot read mys’lf), and as I have been for years advocating the use of dogs for the purpose of assisting the police ia the detection of crime, perhaps the public might be interested if I state in what way dlt; gs would be useful. In the first place I am convinced that blcodbonnds will not do, there beiDg many ob-jectionsto them, the firstobjection being that blood hounds are savage, and if by accidoot they got on to tne line of an sntucent man they might when they overtook him do him serious mischief before the owner could c ima up; but to a sportsman there seems to bo an unanswerable objection—namely, they are too fast ; and although it is true that you could keep up with them on horseback in ihe daytime, it must nos be forgotten that the polica rtquiredegs asmuet in the nigbt-timeas in tha day, and it would be impossible to follow bloodhounds at night. It dee* cot stem to be known that small beagles can bo trained to bunt human beings quite aa weil, nay, better than bloodhounds, for they will bunt a colder scent, being much keener in the nos3. They are very good tempered, and I have never known them bits any person that I have hunted down with them, and they are very easily trained.In IS48 I bad four couples of rabbit beagle puppies, and the idea struck me that I would try if I could train them to run human beings in the same way as I had trained my bloodhound—thus: I placed two drops of ihe til of aniseed on the sole of a boy's boot and made him run a short distance, then hide himself; the puppies in a very Bhort time acknowledged tho scant and ran it truly; I gradually decreased the quantity of oil, and at last sent off a boy withont anything on his boots, wheu I was delighted to find that tbey opened (with the aid of the bloodhound on the first occasion) and went away in fall cry. I was always very particular to change boys every week. When ’hese puppies were 12 months old I ran down a poacher with them after a hunt which lasted 40 minutes, and tais n an must have had a start of nearly 29 minutes, They ran bim into the town, and finally drew np at a pnblic-bouse in which the man was, with a rabbit in bit pocket. It seemed to me that the scent was almost as good upon the pavement in the stieeta as in the fi Ida.Surely, then, the police would find them most useful in the country and the suburban districts, but I do not think they would be of much value in a town. If each rural police-station had three wel -trained beagles kept there, all the police would have to do wou’d be when tbey received information of an offence to take their hounds np to the spot as quickly as possible, throw them across the garden and around the premises as if they were drawing for a hara; I am convinced that if the scent had not got too col 1 they would hit upon the line, and when they had well settled down they would run into the man wherever ho was, the same as any bloodhound. They do not go too fast, so that they are easily followed on foot either by night or day, as their music will let yoa know where they are, let the night be ever so dark. I have no doubt that a class of the community will pooh-pooh the idea without knowing anything at all on the subject, however, I know as a fact that they can ba trained in tke way I have already mentioned, and so can bloodhounds, as I have no doubt any owner cf that class ot dogs will sgree if they have ever tried to train them in that way. I enclose yon my card ; aud although it is many a long day since I viewed a fox, still 1 love the hounds, and would only be too happy to hear of their species becoming useful to the police and public.SIR CHARLES DILE.Sir Charles Dilke received a large deputation at hit home in Sloane street last night, with a view to his becoming a member of one of the new County Councils. —Sir Charles, in reply, said the efforts of his friends t r clear bis character of the aspersions cast npon it were now such sb to make his early return to public life possible. His object in now declining to emerge from his retirement was that he might complete a new version of Greater Britain, and carry out other literary projects. He also contemplated an early departure from England, end this he apprehended would cause his election to be fought in his absence. But there was over and above all a fatal objection to party contests being fought over local subjects. He was forced to decline a too flittering cffer. His Chelsea friends would see that soma of what he had said applied to Chelsea also, and that there was this other reason acolicable to Chelsea—that a local
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