The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 78: what you’re looking at

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70 . © THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. dawns upon us, the streets suddenly become dark, for the bright lights are extinguished and the duped ones are ejected from the glittering palaces, some to stumLle and totter through innumerable alleys to what is called home, and others to lounge about with apparently no object in life. Life itself seems dead in them as they live. MHalf-starved many of them, and homeless; without wishing it or wanting it, falling into sin—apparently unintentionally. How can we blame them? Should we be better ? But let us hurry out of this pandemonium into purer air. We breathe once more as we approach Aldgate’s comparative quiet, and proceed westward. But why that whistle and hurrying of men to Mitre Square? Let us join them, and find out for ourselves. There with the aid of the policeman’s bulls-eye we see a sight so horrible that full particulars can- not be printed, but it is a counterpart of that which the monks of Holy Trinity saw when they arrived at that identical spot in the year 1530. Measure this spot as carefully as you will, and you will find that the piece of ground on which Catherine Eddowes lies is the exact point where the steps of the high altar of Holy Trinity existed, and where the catastrophe to the ten foolish gallants occurred two centuries later. Oh, what can we do that these horrors may be stayed? What CAN we do? This is now the ery of public lamentation and woe! Is the ghost of Monk Martin still hovering over - (ele) m cComicbooks