Newspaper Detectives

by **Karen** Tue 2 Mar 2010 - 8:30

THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS.
Newspaper Reporters Engaged in Detective Work.

London, Sept. 16. - In spite of all probabilities the belief obtains among the lower classes, as well as in the minds of many others, that the mutilated body found in an archway must be added to the list of "Jack the Ripper's" victims. Certain London and provincial journals and one prominent Amercican paper have kept men detailed in the Whitechapel district for months past in hopes of discovering the fiendish murderer, who has added a distinctive name and method to the history of crime; but, not withstanding their watching night after night, their efforts have as yet been of no avail. Each one of them has a different theory, and if the wretch is finally caught or definitely ceases his murderous work, the story of their labors, their suspicions and their baffled hopes would be really interesting reading if they could be induced to put aside wounded vanity and retail their true experience. The police detest these amateur detectives, refuse them any information and throw every obstacle in their way.

Source: Brandon Sun Weekly, September 19, 1889, Page 2