On Wednesday last, an experienced journalist observed in our hearing,
that if the Whitechapel murderer intended further crimes, he would commit one on the morning of November 9th. "A marked day, a day of great excitement, would just suit him if his motive was to show himself the boss criminal of the century." The words of our shrewd friend proved prophetic, it being announced on Friday afternoon that at 10.30 the body of an "unfortunate," murdered and mutilated as usual, had been found in a room or shed in Dorset Court, Dorset Street, Spitalfields, quite within the small district over which the previous murders have been spread. Details are as yet unknown, but it seems probable that no such body was in the shed at 9 o'clock. Many of the police had been withdrawn from the district to protect the Lord Mayor's procession, a fact upon which the miscreant doubtless calculated ; and as yet, as usual, there is no clue. The rapid succession of these murders committed with impunity in a city like London, is without a precedent in the history of crime.
