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A ROTHERHITIIE VENUS.
HOW A MAN CAME NEAR LOSING
HIS LIFE IN WHITECHAPEL.
Barbarism in the East End of London
—On the Thames atter Dart—A Trial
of Wits with a River Rat.
New York, Dec. 8. —That mysterious
journalistophila, known in comtempora
neous romance as “the Whitechapel Fiend,”
has recently brought into renewed p>pular
ity among sensation hunters, the district
of London known somewhat indefinitely as
the “Bast End.” Whitechapel stood in peril
of oblivion, the literary men had cast his
reportorial eyes, apparently, once and for
all upon the gilded west, where, though it
is true that many sons risen in the morning
of life in the e :st end, have set in jeweled
splendor. Whitechapel is as much a trav
eler’s name and nothing else, as Timbuetoo,
Palmyra, or Atlantis. Now, however, the
picturesque and imposing words murder
and outrage have attracted the attention
of the world—and of its wives and daugh
ters —to this unsavory locality, and a com
plete literature of the district has been the
result.
The story lam about to tell, dramatic as
its incidents are, does not, I regret to say,
abound in what the English newsboy calls
“the ’orrid details,” but it serves to show
that the present series of crimes that
are electrifying the world only stand out
from a long calendar of such on account
of the devilish ingenuity of their perpe
trator.
There may be among my readers, English
and American, a few who have had the
curiosity to go through experiences which
have led to events such as lam about to
relate, but the number will be few, for it is
only one out of many hundreds of English
men even, who ever brave the dangers of
the remote east end of London.
At the time of which my story speaks,
George R. Sims had not brought “slum
ming” into fashion; he had not, by his inti
mate acquaintance with the lower forms of
life in London, excited the interest in the
cast end which was aroused a few years
ago in the drawing rooms of the west, in a
word, as I say, “slumming” had not “come
into fashion.” The fact that it had not
done so was perhaps the main inducement to
me to become an inveterate “shimmer”, and,
arrayed in the oldest and most terrible of
clothes and fortified with a carefull v con
cealed revolver of somewhat heavy caliber
and about 5 shillings as a rule in my
pockets in sixpences and coppers, I
commenced a series of voyages of explora
tion in the east end, where the dregs of the
population assemble, and pickpockets con
gregate.
TO THE RESCUE.
If you take the white omnibus which
passes the American exchange at Charing
Cross and cling to it until it reaches the
end of its allotted route it will take you
along the busy Strand and literary Fleet
street, up classic Ludgate hill, past St.
Paul’s, past the bank and by Corn Hill
to London bridge, and there descending
you will set your face eastward, and, pass
ing the monument and tower, you will
reach narrow and treacherous paths, ways
that are dark and streets not always too
clean, and you will find places with names
like “Wapping Old Stairs,” “Shadweli,”
“Ratcliff Highway” and “Tiger Bay;”
places where a decent court would be the
oriflamme of attack, and where they would
sell your hair if they could get a penny a
pound for it.
Across the river lies Rotherhithe, pretty,
fresh and smiling in the noon-day sun,
looking as if it had suddenly been evolved
out of the inner consciousness of some seven
teenth or eighteenth century artist; rows
of little white washed houses with bright
pebbled walks, leading from the rustic
portico to the brilliantly green-painted gate,
where sweet peas straggle untidily at their
own sweet will, and pots of gillyflowers
mingle their hoavy sensuous perfume with
the tarry and fish-like smells which an
nounce the trade of the inhabitants.
It is here that Walter Besant has laid
the scene of the “Captain’s Room” and a
more beautiful and interesting spot it
would be'difficult to find; but scarcely
anybody ever goes there because Rother
hithe is, or was, almost impossible to get
at.
It was something of a romance that
awoke in me an ambition to explore Roth
erhithe. I had been in the habit of haunt
ing Ratcliff Highway in the character of a
defaulting tank clerk, and had fraternized
with my companion outcasts on the strength
of a certain skill in amateur legerdemain,
which enabled me to amuse the occupants
of bar-rooms, whilst I listened to their
talk, with a few simple tricks performed
with some ponnies, a handkerchief and a
pack of cards.
THE FAREWELL.
I had been thus engaged one night, and
was sitting at a dirty table conversing with
two of the lowest specimens of tho popula
tion, when suddenly, above the roar of the
market outside, there ro6 from the mews,
at the back of tho public house we had
selected as a resting placo, a piercing shriek
the cry of a woman—and of a young
woman in mortal terror. Following the
scream, rang forth the cry:
“Oh Godl—help!”
"Boys!” I exclaimed, jumping up, with a
tightened, sickening sensation at my throat,
"here’s some fun. Don’t let’s miss it! Come
and rescue the gal.”
"Go an’do it yerself f’ answered the ap
parently elder or the blackguards, and be
fore be had finished his reply, I was out in
the back yard.
A scoundrel who may have been a sailor,
but. who was more pronably a dock-loafer,
had evidently seized a girl, whose outline I
fould barely distinguish in tho darkness, as
■ho passed the narrow passage that led from
‘ho street to the back of tho house, had
dragged her into the yard for tl e purposes
of robbery, or even worse. Such little things
as this are of too ordinary occurrence in
I tat elide Highway to excite any remark
from the passers by.
The assailant had fl -ng his victim to tho
ground, and crouching ovor her was not
aware of any approach from behind. I did
not dare to shoot for fear of arousing tho
neighborhood—a pistol shot would undoubt
edly summon a policeman (though little
short of it would—in Ratdiffe Highway,)
and my identity would be revealed, —
so I struck the cowardly ruffian a stun
ning blow with a Smith & Wesson butt
on tae back of the head. He rolled over
without a groan—l think .fcis skull was
smashed.
Without bestowing upon him another look
I turned my attention to the girl. She had
fainted, but was apparently at that moment
recovering consciousness.
The moon that was full that night ran
out from behind a bank of clouds and
shone on as fair a face as I ever saw. The
hair that framed it was of a rich, ruddy
gold, and had escaped from its confine
ment as the girl’s bonnet had fallen off;
the eyes that opened and looked at me,
were large and soft, and appeared a deep
violet in the gloom, an exquisite little
mouth opened as I bent over her, appar
ently to cry out once more, when I whisp
ered:
“Be quiet; you are safe! Don’t utter a
word—l’ll see you safely where you want to
go. There’s the man who seized you—let’s
go out of here.”
Casting a frightened glance at the motion
less prostrate figure by her side, the girl
rose, and coming close to me she said in a
low tone:
“For God’s sake, don’t you hurt me too.
You look like a swell—don’t let any of these
beasts touch me.”
I reassured her to the best of my ability
as I led her down the passage to the street,
and the next moment we were striding rap
idly eastward along the highway.
“Where are wa going to?” I asked after
we had put a hundred yards between us and
the scene of her late encounter.
“To Wapping Old Stairs," she answered.
I live across the river at Rotherhithe, with
my uncle. I’ve never been over here be
fore, but uncle was taken ill to-night, and I
came over to find a doctor who saw after
him when he was bad off once before, j
found that he’d gone away from his old ad
dress and I was hurrying home when that
brute seized me as I passed the entry to that
passage. ”
“But, my child I” said I, “you can’t go back
to Rotherhithe alone at this time of the night.
How a beautiful thing like you ever got here
safely at all, I can’t make out. Here! you’re
safe with me anyhow—l’ll take you back to
Rotherhithe.”
The girl drew closer to me and looked up
into my face:
“Ah!” said she, “I thought you was a
swell. Thank you kindly—l shant be afraid
if you come with me.”
And so, arm in arm we reached Wapping
Old Stairs, she chattering about herself all
the way.
She was 17, but she looked 20; she had
lived all her life, she said, as long as she
could remember, with her uncle.
We reached the ferry landing and found
the ferryman making his last round trip for
the night.
“Last trip over,” shouted the ferryman.
I looked from him to the girl—she laid her
hands on my arm and looked up into my
face.
“Won’t you come and see uncle,” she
repeated, “you’ll be able to get a ferryman
to scull you across—there’s always lots
of ’em about, looking for corpses,” she ex
plained.
I shuddered a little, but I couldn’t resist
her appeal. I went with her to her uncie’s
cottage.
We found the old man sleeping peace
fully—from her description of his illness
I concluded that he had been suffering from
an unwonted combination of annodomini
and alcohol. We decided that it was best
not to waken him, aud after remaining
for a few minutes in conversation with
this Rotherhithe Venus, I rose to take my
departure.
She accompanied me to the gate. As I
held out my hand to 6ay “Good night” she
put up her Ups, saying:
“Are’nt you going to kiss me?” There
was not a shade of coquetry in her voice
now—she was merely making a simple in
quiry.
“You’ll come over again and see me,
won’t you?” she said, as at last I announced
my intention of really going away.
“Certainly I will,” was ray answer as I
held her hand over the garden gate,“as soon
as I can—good night!"
Aud retracing my steps along the way by
which we had come, I reached the ferry
stairs. It was a long while now since the
ferry had made|its last trip, so, after looking
around disconsolately for a few minutes, I
hailed what I chink was the most repulsive
looking specimen of humanity that I ever
saw in my life, and after soma haggling,
agreed that he should row me over to Wap
ping in his dilapidated old wherry for the
sum of sixpence.
RIDDLING THE BOAT.
You, oh, my gentle readers, who have
never crossed the Thames, lower perhaps
than VauxbuN or ttie Houses of Parlia
ment, will perhaps think it is nothing to
make this crossing of the river from Roth
erhithe to Wapping, but allow mo to tell
you that though I have walked the streets
of Scutari and the blind alleys of Galatea,
the passages of remoter Paris, and the de
serted Piazzi of Rome at all hours of the
night, I would infinitely rather patronize
all those localities, dressed from head to
foot in the gold embroidered gown of a
Chinese mandarin with a sapphire button
on the top of my hqad, than be rowed
across the Thames at dead of night, “below
bridges.”
You shoot out from tho stairs where you
have stepped into your boat between tho
black undefined masses of shipping and
from beneath the overhanging attics of the
lower river side tenements, and excepting
for tho dreadful, loneiy, “lap, lap. lap,”
of the water and the greasy dip, dip, of
tho dilapidated oars, everything is in pro
found silence.
The greasy stream runs past tho boat
silently and swiftly, and brave man
though you may bo, you dare not trad
your fingers in the water, and you shudder
involuntarily as you turn your eyes away
from every dark mass which floats past the
boat.
On tho occasion of which I am speaking,
we had got about three-quarters of the way
over, when, in the brilliant moonlight, an
idea suddenly seemed to strike my wherry
man; possibly the light shining on my face
made it look more than ordinarily pale
and be thought I was frightened, anyhow
be said: ,
“Here, you swell, pay me ray fere.
I asked him what he meant, he replied:
“I mean that lam going to be paid before
you get out of this boat."
I was wrapped in a large and rather
shabby cloak an I sat in thestorn of the boat,
my arms crossed upon my knees, and thus
we sat looking at one auother, whilst, con
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1888.
cealed by the folds of my cloak, my right
h itid sought the revolver which lay upon
my left hip. I said to him:
“I shall pay you when 1 get out and not a
moment before." And he slid to me:
“I know this, t at unless you pay me
half a sovereign right this minute, you will
never get out of this boat at all, aud then
what f”
“And then this,” I said. “Now look
here; you be reasonable. I’ve told you that
lam a broken down ‘sport’ and that I
haven’t got any money at all; I’ve only
about S shillings in the world, aud you
won’t be such a brute as to ta ite that away
from me.”
“Won’t I though?” be said. And then an
other thought seemed to strike him, aud he
added, "Is that all the money you have got
on you i”
And I said, “Yes.”
A hideous grin displayed two broken
ranks of blackened teeth, and with a chuck'e
more awful than anything I ever heard be
fore or since, intensified as it was by the
surroundings, he said:
“Very well then; that is 3 shillings that
you have got, and o that I shall get for
t aking your body to the river police, that
will make 8.”
“Good God!” I exclaimed, “what do you
mean?”
“Why this here,” said he, “I am going to
chuck you out of this boat, and I am going
to see that yoti' df'o*' l b and then I shall
get 5 shillings for recovering your body
and taking it to the police station, don’t you
see?”
I don’t think I was ever in such a fright
ful situation in my life; but I knew per
fectly well that if I -were to shoot the man
there and then, T should 5 probably fall
into worse hands when. ( I landed, heaven
knows where, on the other side, so I said to
him:
“Now, see here, supposing I lied to you
and that I have got* a watch on that is
worth some money and that I would give
you that, how long will it take you to reach
the other side?” ~ ..... "
By this time the moon had hidden herself
behind acloudand the gloom was profound.
He said:
“About a mikute and a halt.”
“Very well then,” said I, “if you throw
me overboard, I shall swim ashore and then
you will lose me.”
“Oh! oh!” said he, “will you, you would
no more get through the barges and ship
ping alone, than you could get to heaven
without I sent you there. (Heaven was not
the word he used.)”
All this time my brain was working pretty
actively and I said to him:”
“Now, see here is another scheme; admit
ting that you will get 5 snillings for my dead
body, you would get a sovereign for saving
me alive according to the rules of the river
police; now, if you throw me overboard (as
I see by your size you are quite capable of
doing) you shall jump over also and save
me, and I give you my word of honor—stake
my dying oath, that I won’t say you threw
me overboard, only save me and put me
safely into a police station.”
“That would be very well,” said he, “and
you speak fairly enough, but I can’t swim a
stroke.”
“Can’t you,” said I, “then by God! pull
to save your life.”
I had my hand on my revolver all this
time, and drawing it suddenly, I fired two
bullets through the bott im of the boat. The
water began to gush in and the wherryma i
seeing possible escape for me and cert in
death before him, turued the boat’s nose to
the shore and in less than two minutes we
were safely on dry land with nearly a foot
of water in the boat.
Arrived on the other side, he disappeared,
and as good luck would have it, at the top
of the street in which I had been deposited,
I found a stray policeman walking his
solitary round. He told me where I
was and how to get back to London
bridge.
I did not go to Rotherhithe again, accord
ing to my promise; in fact, I have never
been there at all since, and I think I am safe
in saying, that I never shall.
As for the fair one with golden locks who
led me Into that scrape, I have never heard
of her, or seen her since. I wonder what
was her name,
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Handkerchiefs, ) worth 75c.
Also a lot lovely INITIAL HANDKER
CHIEFS, throe in a beautiful Russian Leather
Box, at $2 25 per box.
GOLDHEADED UMBRELLAS CHEAP.
“BY THE WAV,”
We introduce anew feature, which will con
tinue till Christmas. We will allow a discount
of 10 per cent, on all articles (except E. * W.
Collars and Knox Hats). Prices, which are very
low, plainly marked on everything.
10 Off—Remember It.
C DRESS SUITS and OVERCOATS; largest
IT assort ment ever shown in Savannah.
I—
I, SEPARATE KNEE PANTS a specialty.
TANARUS)
R TO CLOSE OUT
K 100 BOYS’ SUITS’!
lOO OVERCOATS f 4TO 11 YEARS ’
S at $1 50. J
TIMELY TOPICS.
10 OFF
Many merchants begin to offer inducements
after the harvest has been reaped. W’o believe
in giving purchasers the advantages while
they are supplying their wants, hence our
liberal offer of TEN PER CENT. DISCOUNT on
all purchases. Now, even at marked prices, our
goods are cheaper than any competitors.
10 PER CENT. OFF.
OVERCOATS.
A Good Union Cassimere $ 6 50
A Good Kersey 8 00
An Elegant Kersey 12 50
A Nice Fancy Worsted 15 00
(With Silk Facing).
Our BATIN LINED COATS are the hand
somest ever shown here.
“WOULD I WERE A BOY AGAIN.”
BOYS’ SHIRT WAISTS in FLAN N ELS and
PERCALES.
BOYS’ FURNISHINGS.
KNOX AND FLEXOR HATS.
Gold and Silver Shirts.
Gents’ Business and Dress Suits.
800 Pairs Nice DRESS PANTS bought at
cut prices and to go the same way,
161 Congress Street.
I’ULBICATIONS.
Magazines for December
AT
ESTILL’S NEWS DEPOT
am BULL STREET.
Price.
The Century 35c
The Atlantic Monthly 35c
The Forum 50c
Outing 35c
Tbe Popular Science Monthly 50c
Scribner’s Magazine 25c
Harper’s Monthly 35c
St. Nicholas 25c
Lippincott’s Magazine 25c
Cosmopolitan 25c
The Eclectic Magazine 50c
The North American Review ,50c
Tbe Southern Cultivator 15c
Tbe Home Maker 20c
Magazine of American History 50c
Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine 25c
Frank Budget of Fun 20c
Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours 15c
Frank Leslie's Popular Moutlily 26c
Something to Read 25c
Tbe Princess 20c
Family Library 15c
The ladies Home Journal 10c
The Poultry World 15c
The Southern Fanner 16c
The Universal Review 75c
Address all orders to
WILLIAM ESTILL. Savannah, Ga.
Fashion Magazines for December
EstilTs News Depot,
NO. aiBULL street.
Price.
Young Indies' Journal 30c
"Le Guide de la Mode" 15c
Peterson's Magazine iOc
Oodey's Lady’* Book 26c
Demurest * Monthly Magazine ,260
New York Fashion Bazar 25c
“L’Art de la Mode" 35c
The Season* Ssc
"Le Bon Ton" 60c
Rem* de la Made. !M
Demorest's Port Folio of the Fashion* 25c
The Delineator SOc
arper’s Bazar 10c
Address all orders to
WILLIAM ESTILL.
Savannah. Oa.
G. H. RENISHART.
Real Estate Agent,
118 Bryan Street, Rear Office.
CARPETS, DRY GOODS, ETC.
Carpets! Carpets!
Without Exception the Best
Value Yet
Superfine Ingrain at 50c. per yard; worth 60c.
All Wool Ingrain at 75c. per yard; worth 85c.
3-Ply Ingrain at 70c. per yard; worth 90c.
3-Ply All-Wool (best made) at 90c. per yard;
worth sl.
Tapestry Brussels at 65c. per yard; worth 75c.
Tapestry Brussels at 75c. per yard; worth 85c.
Body Brussels at $1 03 per yard; worth $1 25.
Boys’ Suits.
Boys’ Suits that were §2,
This week’s price $1 50.
Boys’ Suits that were SI 75,
This week’s price $1 35.
Boys’ Suits that were $2 25,
This week's price $1 75.
Boys’ Suits that were 82 50,
This week’s price $2.
Boys’ Suits that were $3,
This week’s price $2 50.
Boys’ Suits that were $3 75,
This week’s price $3.
Boys' Suits that were $4 50 and $5,
This week’s price $3 75 and $1 25.
SPECIAL PRICES FOR THIS WEEK
LINEN GOODS.
46-inch White Damask Kotted Fringe Towels,
25c.; regular price 40c.
43 inch Loom Damask Towels, 20c.; regular
price 85c.
46-inch Hack Towels, 25c.; regular price 45c.
Full Size All-Linen Towels at 10c.; worth life.
Special Bargains in WHITE and COLORED
TABLE DAMASK; also, In FANCY IMPORTED,
EMBROIDERED and JUTF, COVERS. DOY
LIES, TRAY CLOTHS; NAPKINS from 35c.
per dozen upward in extensive variety.
DANIEL HOGAN’S
Blanket Emporium.
SAVE 25 PER CENT. BY BUYING YOUR
BLANKETS EARLY.
D. HOGAN.
WUOhESALE GROCERS.
Henry Solomon & Son,
Wholesale Grocers
AND
LIQUOR DEALERS,
173, 175, 182, 184 BAY STREET.
Jobbers of FLOURS, TOBACCOS and CIGARS.
Sole Agents for AMERICAN MACHINE
COMPANV’S PERFECTION SCALES.
lafOrders by Mall Solloited.
A. EHRLICH& BRO.,
—WHOLESALE—
Grocers, Provision and Liquor Dealers.
TOBACCOS AND CIGARS. FLORIDA
ORANGES’AND FRUITS A SPECIALTY.
153 AND lfi.s BAY STREET.
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA.
SEED OATS.
Georgia Bust Proof OatT
TEXAS RUST PROOF OATS,
KANSAS RUST PROOF OATS
KEYSTONE MIXED FEED,
OCR OWN MIXED FEED FOR COW§(
COTTON SEED MEAL.
Corn, Oats, Hay, Etc.
T. J. DAVIS &i CO.,
173 Bay Street.
PRINTING, ETC.
SOUTHERN
HEADQUARTERS FOR
ACCOUNT BOOKS,
PRINTING,
AND
LITHOGRAPHING.
Blank Books that Open Flat a Specialty.
FINE BINDING-
In all Styles, for Public and Private Libraries
Turkey Morocco, Crushed Seal, or Le
vant, Russia and other Qualities.
MUSIC andMAGAZINE3.
IN MARBLE, PLAIN OB GILT EDGES.
Morning News Steam Printing House
Printing, Lithographing and Binding,
SAVANNAH. - - GA
Corporations, Officials. Merchant*, and bust,
ness inen generally who require the very best
Suallty of work are invited to favor us with
loir patronage. Our Account Books have been
used by the leading bouses in the South for the
pest twenty years, and have stood the test for
STRENGTH, UURAIHLITX AND WORKMANSHIP. New
eonoerns can be fitted out promptly, at reason
able prices, with whatever supplies they require
in our line
pgr ALL ORDERS EXECUTED ON OUB
OWN PREMISES.
THE BOOK FOR BOOKKEEPERS.
It Will Open Ont Perfectly Flat From Ftra
to Last Page.
The Mornino Niwh Printing House is the
licensed manufacturer of
BRONSON'S FLAT OPENING BLANK BOOKS.
(Adopted by the United States Government.)
There is no book made of equal strength. It
will open at any page and remain perfectly fiat.
There is no danger of the leaves becoming looea
It is the only elastic binding designed to opes
fiat that has received the unqualified indorse
ment of bookkeepers as weU as bookbinders.
Books ruled to any pattern, made to any size
and bound in any styl ••
We are making books for a number of firm*
In this city and elsewhere, and will take pleas
ure in allowing them to those Interested.
THE MORNING NEWS STEAM PUINTINO
HOUSE,
3 W hi taker street, Savannah.
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