THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 521, 15 December 1888, Page 11

THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS.

«- — On the Track. The summer had come in September a fc last. And the pantomime season was cjming on fast, When a score of detectives arrived from the Yard To untangle a slcein which was not very hard. They. looked very wise, and they started a clue ; They twiddled their taumbs as the best thing to do. They Baid, ' By this murder we're taken aback, But we're now, we believe, on the murderer's track.' They scattered themselves o'er the face of. the land — A gallant, devoied, intelligent band — They arrested their suspects north, east, south, and west, From inspector to sergeant each man did his best, They took up a bishop, they took up abuug, They arrested the old, they arrested the young- ; They ran in Bill, Thomas, and Harry and Jaclr, Yet still they remained on the murderer's track. The years passed away, and the century waned, A mystery still the big murder remained. It puzzled the Ear and it puzzled the Hench, It puzzled policemen, Dutch, German, and French ; But 'twas clear as a pikestaff to a.ll London 'tees, Who to see through a wall didn't want to wear specs. In reply to the sneer and the snarl and the snaok, They exclaimed ' We arc still on the murderer's track.' They remained en hia track till tbey died of old ago, And the story was blotted from history's page ; But they died like detectives, convinced that the crime j They'd have traced, to its source if they d only had time. ; They made a good end, and they turned to the 1 wall To answer the Great Eirst Commissioner's call ; ! And they sighed as their breathing grew suddenly slack ' We believe we are now on that murderer's track. • — ' D.utbNET,' in London Referee.

— Gaylord and Silbon's great novelty Company open at the Opera House to-night (Thurs- V dav) for a brief seascn of one week. This troupe' is "not an ordinary variety one. , There ia. no burnt cork about it, or. anything 1 of that. kind. It is something quita new. The show consists of. soroe astounding' acrobatic and tumbling business and winds Up with a, pantomime. The Company, hails from 'JH'riseo. . . • : - v \ —At a meeting, of t'be directors of. ] the several Courts of the Pastoral Finance, Trust, and Agency Company of Australasia, Limited, ;liel)d in the" Chamber of. Commerce (Exchange), Sydney, on. Friday, the 23rd inst.iThosVHuageri'ord, Jflsg „ in t lie chair, the .CptnDatiy yyas , declarod :.dul^ formed, and shares \«vere allotted: The ; general meeting. t of sharehdlders. vras palled f or -th"e, llth December.' .' .'•'■."'■'. .-.;'..;.■.•.'■•"'-'. .&'"'" ' ■•-,