MURDER WILL OUT.
An extraordinary sensation has ban created in England by the murder of a young girl in a railway tunnel at Jferstham, and latest English iiks state that the most skilled detectives of Scotland Yard have I.'fen unable to 1 throw any light upon the tragedy. The murderer and his rodtive are equally mysterious. There is a popular theory that murdtr will out, and possibly some conscious-str cken individual will yet eorr.e forward with the information that will do'ar up the mys. Icry, but GXi>eriG:iee has Shown that this docs -not always happen. . The perpetrator of the notorious : Whitechapcl nuirrters was nevrt- discovered, although tho crimes have liven associated with several different individuals. It is said that Scotland Yard narrowed identi'ficai tion down lo three persons 1 , acainst whom it possesses very plausible and reasonable grounds of suspicion. One was a Polish Jew, a lunatic known to be at Jtajrgv? at the time' of the murders and of we'.l-(!ev\Joped homicidal tendencies; another war, a Russian doctor, also insane, who was in the imbit of carrying s-urgical instruments about in his pockets.' <A/.thjrd was an T other doctor, whosO friends jknew him to be mad, who disappeared af'.er the last murder, and wliose body was found' float-ing in the Thwmofi sn'en weeks later. In addition to these there was the story af a woman in Melbourne, who alleged that a sailor confessed the .rimes to her, and whose movements tallied with the rocrude»---i-f»ncv of the murders in WKitechapel. Many oth^r mysterious murders may Ive added to the Whitechapel murders. Thwre was th« case of Lieutenant Roper, of tho Royal Engineers, who was found shot in i IRHI on his own staircase, and with a poker at his side, whicfi he' was supposed to have used in selfdefence* ; Anothor notable crime was Vh-e murdi-r of Mr Nathan, a wealthy Jew in 'New York, who was killed with brutal violence in his own housa in Twenty-third stroot, but the circumstances remain a mystery to this daji. On (ho other hand, the mj r 9terjes attaching txy many murders are not cleared up till long afterwards. Protests are frequently mad« ntra'ivst tho practice of newspapers publishing the detafils of murders, but this vtcry publicity has often ,o.?n the means of sheeting the •crrmto hoxr.tf to its perpetrator. Courvousier, the valet who murdered ford William Russell, was arrested 1 through a former «m---plovcr recognising him and remsnnhuring thai after the murder this man called at her house and asked bor in take charge of a parcel. The parcel, onj facroj? optmed was fouatd t-o rontain a quantity of ttoo mur'ere.d peer's valirahles'. txtfroy, the •nurcfrr?r of .¥r Cro,"d in Balcombe nmtiH. in F<ur:lund, was recogniaTrt by his liandlarly from a line-sketch which appfrvrr-d n one of tJic panors and th-» publicity piven to a rr'm.- 1 k'nds to make comcea'limeint of identity enornxyuslj' difficult.
MURDER WILL OUT.
Nelson Evening Mail, 7 December 1905, Page 1
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