ANOTHER WHITECHAPEL MURDER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4458, 27 August 1889, Page 4

ANOTHER WHITECHAPEL MURDER.

The body of a woman named Alice Mackenzie, known aa" Alice KelJ, was found in Castle Alley, Whifcechapel, on the night of July lo;h, and the details of tho affair leave no doubt thai the unfortunate waa the eighth victim of " Jack the Ripper." Almost before the dreadful work waa completed, the police came from all directions, and with their bull's eyes threw patches of light in every direction, but there was no trace of the murderer. When the woman waa placed in an ambulance underneath her was found a broken clay pipe stained with blood. Evidently she was taken unawares, as she wa3 etroog'y built, weighed 140 ib, and could not have uttered a cry without being heard by the police. " Jack" adopted his old plan, except that in his case his right hand wa3 placed over tha woman's mouth, and the left hand drove the knife into her neck, instead of vice versa. The body was taken to tLa mortuary. The examination developed unusual features. " Jack " had done his work with a duli koife, therefore his slashes had not been clean. At 10 o'clock on the 17th the woman was identified as one who gained hsr living by charing work, and never resorted to the streets. The alley where she was killed is 100 yards long, dark, and encumbered by a mass of waggons and barrows, which formerly were stored in a yard. At the bottom is a net-work cf streets, courts, and alleys. There are no residents of the street likely to go through it at night. The murder threw Whitechapel into a condition of fearful excitoment. Saveral suspicious characters were arrested, but discharged for leek of evidence. The killing was done within a stone's throw from the Ecene of almost all the other murders.