WHITECHAPEL HORRORS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 225, 22 November 1888, Page 3

WHITECHAPEL HORRORS.

London, Nov. 20. The murder excitement is beginning to cool down. Sufficient evidence has not yet been got to connect the arrested persons with the various crimes. A facsimile of “ Jack the Ripper’s ” letter to the London News has been posted up for a couple of days in one of the windows of the Standard office, and has been a topic of much interest. It has already been viewed by hundreds. John Pizer, the notorious individual known as “ Leather Apron,” has commenced actions against two London journals for hastily assuming that he was the Whitechapel murderer. In each case the valiu of his character is set down at £5OOO. The inform iti n that a sailor recently returned from Sydney has been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the Whitechapel murders recalls to recollection (says the Post) a series of mysterious assaults committed on females in Sydney, in, we think, 1881. A considerable number of women were then mysteriously stabbed in the groin while walking along the streets, and, if we remember aright, the perpetrator of the crimes was never detected. The wounds were always inflicted in the left groin, and apparently by a long thin, sharp instrument. Can there be any connection between the two series of crimes in Sydney and Whitechapel ?