The Star. MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1898. A WHITECHAPEL TRAGEDY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6133, 21 March 1898, Page 2

The Star. MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1898. A WHITECHAPEL TRAGEDY.

.— - ■ » . A POLISH JEW'S MAD JEALOUSY. HIS HIDEOUS REVENGE. [From Our Correspondent.] I LONDON, Feb. 12. ' That once terribly familiar cry of the newsboys' "Horrible Murder in Whitechapel " rang out again in the streets of the metropolis on Saturday night, and revived one's memories of the ghastly sequence of crimes, still unpaid for, committed by " Jack the Ripper." At this time the papers had no tale of aimless murder and mutilation to tell — only a commonplace tale of a lover's mad jealousy ending in the death of his paramour and another. The scene of the tragedy was a Jewish restaurant in Brick Lane (the street in which the great Trueman, Banbury and Buxton Brewery is to be found), kept by a Polish Jew named Glonwiski. The upper part of the building the restaurateur let to a married man named Visotski, who, however, had gone to America and left his wife — A GOOD-LOOKING WOMAN of four-and-twenty to look after herself. Olga Visotski seems for a time to have made a meagre living by laundry work and sewing, but the work was hard, the pay poor, and — well, she was a very attractive girl. Her first lover was Paul Veinolowski, a Polish Catholic, of fair means. He lavished presents on Olga Visotski, and appears to have expressed a desire to marry her, evidently under the impression that the husband in America was a myth. Olga, j however, was more enamoured of Paul's presents than of Paul, and in the latter's absences carried on a liaison with his fellow-countryman, Clemens Smirovitch. Veinolowski suspected the truth, but his remonstrances were met with mockings, and his jealous threats laughed to scorn. A servant in the restaurant, to whom Veinolowski exposed his mind, counselled Olga to be careful how she treated her lover and recommended her to give him back his presents. But the fair •« grass-widow " replied, « Bah ! what a fool gives a clever woman must keep. As for Paul's threats-poof!" So she continued to add c xt ■ , FUEL ITO THE F IRE of Veinolowski's jealousy, until the man grew desperate and determined on reJh» S t f e^ning he entered the restaurant, drank a cud of tea, and OIS: de fo UP the i? ark Scat^oward Olgas rooms, calling loudly for his out to S T7 te S- ", The Sttei caS out to meet Paul o a i ensued, and, dSrfA fierCe q "f r

Karinak^ alarmed by the alteicition,. Had shut themselves in the bedroom, and when Paul, having disposed of Smirovitch, tried to enter they held the door against him. Unable to force an entrance, Veinolowaki fired at the door. . His first shot passed clean through the panel, and, striking Ada Karinski's head, glanced downward into her shoulder. VEINOLOWSKI FIRED AGAIN, and the second bullet stretched Olga vvsotski dead on the floor. The firing attracted the attention of the passers by, and a vast crowd soon gathered in the vicinity of the restaurant. Presently a couple of constables arrived on the scene, an f, a moment later were face to face ■with the murderer. Veinolowski was standing over his victims, shouting and gesticulating furiously. He threatened the constables with the revolver, but they threw themselves upon him without hesitation, and after a desperate struggle succeeded in disarming and overpowering tne maddened brute. Doctors were speedily called in, but so far aB Olga Visotski and Smirovitch were concerned their presence was useless. Ada Karinski though unconscious was still breathing, and -vt as removed at once to the London Hospital. She is expected to recover.