Whitechapel Murders.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 233, 11 December 1888, Page 3

Whitechapel Murders.

During the throe days of the week following the Sunday on which the dreadful double murder was committed the following petition to the Queen was circulated among the wo men of the laboring classes of East London, through some of the rel glous agencies and educational centres To our Most Ror-e reign Lady Queen Victoria. Madam, —We, the women of East London, feel horror of the dreadful’Bins that have been lately committed in our midst, and grief because of'the shame that has fallen on our neighborhood. By the facta that have come out in the inquest, we have learnt much of the lives < f those of our sisters who have lost a firm hold on goodness, and who are living sad and degraded lives. While each woman of us will do all she can to make men feel with horror the sins of impurity which cause such wicked lives to be led, we would also beg that your Majesty will call on your servants in authority and bid them put the law, which already exists, in motion to close bad houses, within whose walls such wickedness is done and men and women ruine" 5 in body and soul.— We are, Madam, your loyal and humble servants. (Here follow the 4000 or 6000 signa* tures.) The petition was presented in due form, and Her Majesty has replied in the following terms to the request of her earnest and loyal, if humble, subjects:—“Whitehall. Madam, lam directed by the Secretary of State to inform you that he has had the honor to lay before the Queen the petition of women inhabitants of Whitechapel praying that st-pa may be taken with a view to suppress the moral disorders in that neighborhood, and that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to receive the same. lam roadd that the Secretary of State looks with hope to the influence for good that the petitioners can exercise each in their own neighborhood, and he is in communication with with the Commissioner of Police with a view of taking such action os may be desirable in order to assist the (efforts of the petitioners, and to mitigate the evil, of which they complain,—l am, Madam, your obedient servant, GodFMy Lvshinctox,— Mrs Barnett, St. Jude’s Vicarage, Commercial-street,