THE LATEST VICTIM OF JACK THE RIPPER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4460, 29 August 1889, Page 4

THE LATEST VICTIM OF JACK THE RIPPER.

The Standard of July 18. h says : Without question the vicious madman who had already killed seven women of the poorest and most degraded class, has added an eighth to the list. Whether or not he will on this occasion escipe the vigilance of the police, and, as before, sfford them no possible clue to his whereabouts, is s subject which it is hardly fruitful to discus 3. It may be that the feeling, now well-nigh universal, that the criminal is a sailor—perhaps a sailor of Oriental race—will, in the end, prove correct, and that a special search directed towards the various classes of men engaged ia the Port of London will lead to some result. It has been suggested, with some show of reason, that the murderer is employed on board a Bhip which sets out periodically from the Thames, and that he selects the night or so before sailing for the committal of his atrocious deeds. Such a theory, no doubt, might account for the manner in which the criminal withdraws hlmßelf from all possibility of recognition immediately after the perpetration of each fresh outrage. Still, we must remember that his disappearance can be equally well accounted for by supposing that he remains in hiding somewhere In the crowded streets and courts that surround the locality of the murders. All these theories, though never so Ingenious, must, however, be pronounced in reality untrustworthy, since not one of them has been able t3 satisfactorily suggest by what means the murderer cleanses his hands, and probably his clothes, from the blood with which it is certain that he must be to some degree stained. An hour or two after the murder was committed on Tuesday night, all Whitechapel knew of what had happened, and there wis not a man, woman, or child in the district who would not have noticed traces of blood wherever they had seen them. Yet, somewhere in the neighborhood must have been secreted a man covered with stains which, if seen, must have led to his detection. But though the problems in the art of detecting crime raised by the recent series of murders are subtle and perplexing enough, and though the outrages are by their nature specially odious, It would be absurd to indulge in anything like a feeling of panic In regard to them.