[JACK THE RIPPER AND THE WHITEHALL MURDER MYSTERY]. The Times. No. 32,512. London, October 9, 1888. 16 pages on folded folio sheets. Each page approximately 599 x 456 mm. Toned, several marginal tears and chips, partially brittle, some occasional faint creases, inkstamp on masthead. On p. 7 is an account of the lack of progress in finding the Whitechapel murderer, Jack the Ripper: “The East-End Murders. No arrest in connection with the atrocious murders at the East-end had been reported up to a late hour last night either at Scotland-yard or at any of the City police-stations, and although elaborate investigations have been made no further clue has yet been discovered. The funeral of Catherine Eddowes, the victim of the Mitre-square murder, took place yesterday at Ilford Cemetery…” On p. 12 is the report on the coroner’s inquest on the so-called “Whitehall Mystery,” an unsolved murder of an unidentified woman, whose body had been dismembered, and her body parts had been scattered throughout Whitehall: “The Murder at Westminster. Yesterday, at the Sessions-house, Westminster, the inquest was opened by the Westminster Coroner, Mr. Troutbeck, respecting the headless and limbless body of a woman found in the vaults of the new police offices which are now being built on the Victoria Embankment, on the spot formerly taken for the proposed National Opera House…” Several newspapers tried linking this case to the Jack the Ripper murders, but the Modus Operandi of Jack the Ripper and the Whitehall Murderer were different, and so are considered to be unrelated. The Whitehall Mystery is one of the four “Thames Torso Murders,” which took place between 1887-89.