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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 3 May 1889, Page 7

The brilliant theory of the London police, that th« Wbiteehapel atrocities must have been perpetrated by a foreigner, and probably an AmericaD, " because no Englishman would be guilty of such unnatural butcheries," moves a common-sense Englishman tj the remark that it is not so many years ago since the English people used to be regale! by public spectacles of diaembowelliDg and dismerobeiing, performed by the officers of ihe law itself for the edification of the people. Indeed, the law by which cart tin criminals, especially those who commit political ciimes, may be condemned to the humane punishment of " hanging, drawing, and quartering," still remains unrepealed on the statute books of the realm. "Jack th 3 Upper" might have studied his art from the Newgate Calendar, without ever leaving ihe sboies of his native London, or incurring the danger o contamination from wicked American;.— Pilot.

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