THE MURDER NEAR GATESHEADTelegraphing last evening our Newcastle correspondent says:- "No arrest has yet been made in connection with the murder of Jane Beatmore at Birley Fall, near Gateshead, on Saturday night. During the hole of to-day an entire search has been made by the police for the ? man. It is believed that, if alive, the murderer is somewhere in the vicinity. With this view, the authorities have had the disused coal pits in the neighbourhood thoroughly searched, and all the cornfields and outhouses for miles round have undergone the closet investigation. During the morning, Dr. Phillips, the medical man who examined the body of Annie Chapman, the last victim of the Whitechapel murderer, and Inspector Roots, of the Criminal Investigation Department, Scotland-yard, arrived at Birtley from Durham, which place they had reached last night from London. They were accompanied by Colonel White, Chief Constable of the county of Durham, and Superintendent Harrison. Dr. Phillips saw the body during the afternoon, and made a searching examination of the wounds, to see if they bore any resemblance to the injuries inflicted on the Whitechapel victims. The result of the examination, and the effect it had upon the doctor's mind, were, of course, not made known, but it is reported that the authorities have little belief in the theory that the murderer had any connection with the events in London. In the case of the woman Chapman, it will be remembered that the perpetrator of the crime displayed a certain amount of anatomical knowledge in the horrible dissection he practised upon the body; but in the case of the woman Beatmore the murderer was clumsy in his method, and appears rather to have overcome his victim by brute force. The resemblance in the two cases, however, is striking in the common fact that the wounds were made in the same parts of the body, and in both instances a mere fraction of the mutilation which took place would have been sufficient to have accomplished the murderer's object, if killing was the only desire. Inspector Roots was engaged throughout the day with the local police in making notes of the circumstances, and obtaining their views as to the outrage. Ever since the murder was discovered, the police have been endeavouring to discover a man who, it is said, kept company with the deceased. He has not been at his lodgings since Friday. No reason can be assigned for his sudden disappearance. To-day, crowds of people visited the scene of the murder and the cottage where the body now lies. Policemen have been engaged searching a field of oats adjoining the waggon way for the weapon with which the deed was committed, but they have not succeeded in finding it. An opinion prevails that the murderer has committed suicide, but a telegram from Spennymoor states that a man answering the description of the one wanted was seen at Byers Green Colliery, about fourteen miles away, on Sunday morning. Inspector Roots left Birtley for London this evening."
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