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Thames Advertiser, Volume XX, Issue 6261, 23 November 1888, Page 2

At last one of the unfortunate women, who has come iu contact with the atrocious Whitechapel murderer, has survived to tell her tale. It was erroneously cabled that she was dead, it most fortunately turns out that this is not the case, and further that she has'been able to give a lucid description of her assailant, With this clue the police will be able to run the fellow to earth.' In the formei cases there was no clue whatever left by ths murderer by which he could be I traced. When crime : goes undetected the police naturally come in for a large ! share of abuse, which is not at' all times 'deserved. They are expected to piriform'impossibilities. Any persons ac? iquainted with the neighbourhood of Whitechapel can readily appreciate the difficulty of capturing a man who selected for his victims the " unfortun-1 ates." They naturally retired willingly with him to secluded pkc.es. where they were least likely to come under the observation of the police or anybody eke, Their local knowledge .in this respect led them the more certainly to their doom. It is to be sincerely hoped that his failure to complete his purpose in this last instance will lead'to the capture of this fiend incarnate. The London police are skilful in following a scent, but where none is left they can no more follow a tyajl $han can a dog under like circumstances. Let us h. ope that the last of the series of Whitechapel horrors, has been described, and that it will soon dissolve upon journalists to record the capture, (rial, and hanging of the most cold blooded jand autrocious murderer of modern times,

[Since the above was iu type, a cable has reached us announcing that the supposed murderer has been captured. The fact of his offering violent resistance is confirmatory of tne suspicion that he is tip right man.J