WHITECHAPEL HORRORS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 230, 4 December 1888, Page 3

WHITECHAPEL HORRORS.

STILL NO CLUE. London, Dec. 1. No satisfactory clue to ths perpetrators of the late murders has yet been obtained. In the reign of James I. of Scotland, there was born in East Lothia, a village a few miles from Edinburgh, Sawney Beane, the ■on of poor, but hardworking people. Evincing from boyhood a hatred of all labor, and displaying every kind of vicious quality, he at an early age abandoned his home and fi-d to Galloway. He was accompanied by a fit companion for his crimes in the person of a young woman a native of the same village. The home of this pair was in a cave of about B mile in length and of considerable breadth, the mouth of which was washed by the sea, the tide sometimes penetrating the cave a dh anc« of 200 yard*. The vic ims were w ij’laid under cover*of night on the r way from country fairs, or in the case of isolated travellers across the country, were openly attacked in daylight. The same so d-sicken-ing mutilation was inflicted in each case ; the ab iomen was cut open, and the entrails dragged out, and the body carried to the cgve. To prevent detection they munjere l every traveller they robbed, and for years they continued their horrible calling. In this manner, the chronicler tells us, they lived until they had eight sons and six daughters, 18 grandsons, and 14 granddaughters—all offspring of incest. After a long career of murder the gang were captured by King James, who, routed to action by the long immunity < f the criminals from detection, headed a body of troops, and succeeded with bloodhoards in unearthing from the cave the whole vile tribe, to whom was meted out a death agreeable with the life they had Jed. The men, says the historian, had their entrails thrown into the fire, their hands and legs were severed from their b die*, and they were permitted to ed to death. The mother of the whole the daughters and grandchildren, after being spectators of the death of the man, Were cast into three separate fires and consumed to ashes.