Weekly Herald
December 7th, 1888
THE WHITECHAPEL FIEND.
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THE new Chief Commissioner of Police has not done
anything yet towards unravelling the Whitechapel mysteries. The "Pall
Mall," whose taste is unaccountably gory, has put forth a theory
that the murderer is a Frenchman; and urges in support of its case tha
tthe supposed assassin spelt the word "Jews" in French fashion
"Juives." Should all the theories prove true, the
murderer would indeed be a curious combination. He has been at various
periods a Malay, a Russian, an American, and a Jew, and the advancer of
each of the theories has proved indubitably (to himself at least) that
he was right. We opine--although theorising is dangerous--that when the
actual miscreant turns up his case will be like "Captain Corcoran's"
in Pinafore.
He might have been a Rooshian,
A Frenchman, Turk, or Prooshian,
Or even an
Ital-i-an.
But in spite of all temptations,
To belong to other nations
He remains
an Englishman.
