The Whitechapel Murders.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6237, 9 June 1890, Page 2

The Whitechapel Murders.

It has never been suggested that a Chinaman might be responsible for that terrible butchery known as the Whitechapel murders. This is probably owing to the difficulty there is in associating the bland and mild-mannered Ah Sin with deeds exhibiting extreme ferociousness and brutality. But there is intelligence from thefctatesof Montana, in America, of a murder combining all the revolting features of the “Jack the Ripper" tragedies, which has been committed by a Chinaman. If the crime had taken place in London it would at once have been put down to the mysterious fiend whose presence a little over a year ago created such panic in the metropolis, 'ihe victim, was of the unfortunate class; she was done to death in the centre of the town, yet without any one hearing a cry or a sound. The body was mutilated and hacked almost beyond recognition. The police, however, found a clue to the murderer. The woman had during the s evening been seen .in the company of a Chinaman, and they were heard to quarrel. The man was tracked to his lodgings, but it was found he was only one of thirty Chinamen who lived there, and

to tho European eye the Asiatics nro so much alike that no one can be found to identify the man who was soon with tho woman. It is a perplexing situation. .There are no bloodstains or other marks on any of the men which might be held as establishing identification. So for the present the thirty Chinamen are in gaol on a charge of murder. The danger is that the American hatred of the Mongolian element will load to the lynching of tho whole lot.