"THE MURDER MONTH."

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7026, 14 January 1910, Page 7

"THE MURDER MONTH."

November in the Old Country has "been called "the month of. suicide and murder," and a casual mental Teview of the calendar of crime certainly does suggest that ifche .gloomy, drizzly, foggy days which nsually obtain during that month are provocative of selfdestruction and homicide. Of London's November tragedies, the -.one that has attracted most attention was a murder perpetrated at Brixton. The circumstances surrounding this atrocity v.-ere vividly' reminiscent • cf tho still unravelled Camden Town mystery. The victim was of the class lenown as "unfortunates," and. was murdered in -' cold blood by a man whom she had taken to 'her lodgings. The author of the Brixton crime managed so well to conceal his intentions that he was able to slay . his victim, ere she had a chance of raising an alarm. • The murderer got clear away ' hoNirs ; before his ghastly- deed was discovered, and, without leaving any due as to his identity beyond £ome finger-marks* which may or may not prove helpful to the police in their hunt for the murderer. The police are said-to believe that if they can lay their hands on Mrs Tempest's murderer they will capture the slayer of Emily Dimock at Camden Town, and of another unfortunate; who, was done to death under similar circumstances in a house near Tottenham Court road some eighteen months before the Camden Town murder. The theory is that the perpetrator of these murders is a man with recurrent homicidal mania, directed, as, in the ..case; of "Jack the Eipper," against a certain class.