22 JULY 1989, Page 21

One hundred years ago

THE Whitechapel murders have begun again. Early on Wednesday morning, a woman of the name of Alice Macken- zie, who had been living with John McCormack for the last six or seven years, was murdered by a wound in the throat, succeeded by a stab in the abdomen, in Castle Alley, Whitechapel Road, a thoroughfare usually blocked up during both day and night with tradesmen's carts, and shut off from view of the main road. Alice Mackenzie is the eighth victim of the person, whoever it may be, who murders to mutilate. The murder was committed about half-an-hour after midnight, and there is as yet no trace of the murderer.