Arrest of a Baronet for the Whitechapel Murderer.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4914, 24 January 1889, Page 3

Arrest of a Baronet for the Whitechapel Murderer.

The London correspondent of tho New York World telegraphs : —The most intense amusement has been caused among all classes of ths London world by tho arresc last week of little Sir Geoi’ge Arthur on suspicion of being the Whitechapel murderer. Kir George is a young baronet holding a captaincy in the regiment of Royal Horse Guards, and is a member of most of the leading clubs in town. He is also a well-known amateur actor, and was a great friend of the late Prince -Leopold, Duke of Albany. Since the past few weeks the old mania for “slumming” in Whitechapel has became fashionable again. Every night scores of young men who have never been to the ifast End before in their lives prowl round tho neighborhood in which the murders were committed, talking with frightened women and pushing their way into overcrowded lodging houses, tin long as a~y two men keep together, and do not make a nuisance of themselves, the police do not interfere with them. But if a man goes alone and tries to lure a woman of the street into a secluded corner to talk with her, he is pretty sure to get into trouble. That was the case with Sir George Arthur, He put on an old shooting coat, a slouch hat, and went down to Whitechapel for a little fun. Ho got it. It occurred to two policemen that Sir George answered very much the popular description of Jack the Eipper. They watched him, and when they saw him talking with some women they proceeded to collar him. He protested, expostulated and threatened them with the vengeance of royal wrath, but in vain. Finally a chance was given to him to send to a fashionable western club to prove his identity and be was released with profuse apologies for the mistake. The affair was kept out of the newspapers. But the jolly young baronet’s friends at Brooks’ Club considered the joke too good to be kept quiet.