FIFTY YEARS AGO
iTHE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS
The London* East End murders, which aroused public indignation 50 years ago, were the topic of much discussion in New Zealand and other parts of the world at that time. The following extract is from the New Zealand Herald of November 10, 1888: "Two more murders must now be added to the black list of similar crimes of which the East End of London has lately been the scene. The circumstances of both of them bear a close resemblance to those of the former atrocities. The victim in both these new cases has been a woman. In neither can robbery have been the motive nor can the deed be sot down as the outcome of an ordinary street brawl. Both have unquestionably been murders deliberately planned and carried out bv the hand, of someone who has been no novice at the work. It was early yesterday morning that the bodies of the two women were discovered at places within a quarter of an hour's walk of one another . ....
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23191, 10 November 1938, Page 8
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174FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23191, 10 November 1938, Page 8
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