Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-11
Bloody Details Of His Last Horrible Work
of Death.
THE DISGUSTING MUTILATlOHS
Inflicted on the B0iy Of Unfortunate Mary
Jane Kelly.

MrS. taumler, VINO seems 10 De rella'
bic person, and who ss!ls walnuts in San
dy Row, near the scene of the murder,
states that at II o'clock yesterday morn.
ing, q respectfully dressed man, carryirg a
black bag, came up to her and began talk
ing about the murder. He appeared to
know everything about it, but did not buy
walnu.s, and after standing few min
utes went away. Mrs. Psumier described
him as man about thirty years old, five
feet six inches in height. He wore spec
kled trousers and black coat.
Several girls in the reigh5orhood say
that the same man accosted them and they
chsffed him. When asked what he had in
his black bag, he said: Something that
ladies done like"
The accurate circumstances Of the affair
are difficult to discover, the police, as
usual, placing every obstacle in the way of
TIE inv stigations of the reporters, but it
undoubtedly surpsseS in fiendish atrcc ty
all the terrible crimes with which the East
End Of London has been famil:arized with
in the past six months.
The woman, twentysx x years Old, and
named Mary Jane Kelly, had lived for
four months in frcnt room on the secord
floor of houss up an alley kro yn as Car
Inns court, in Dorset street. She was in
service q short time ago, but since she
came to reside in the court, hsd been rec
ognized by the neighbors as person who,
like 60 many unfortunate members of her
sex in the East End, managed 10 exc out a
wretched existence by the p -actice OF i'm
morality under tie most degrading con-
ditiors. The court faces a small fquare
with a paIOw entrance, and is surrounded
by squaid lodging houses with rooms let
out to women of the unfortunate class.
Mrs. Kelly is described as tall woman,
not bad looking, with dark compile Niop,
and as generally wearing an old black vel
vet Jacket. She was wearing thiI jack 9t
yesterday morning when, about SIS, she
went down the court, jug in hand, and re-
turned shortly siterward with milk for tie
breakfast. This WAS the last seen of her
alive.
The woman was behind in Ter rent, and
had been told by her landlord that he
would put her out if she did not pay him
to. day. She went to the streets Thursday
night to earn money to pay her rent, and
it seems to be clearly established that she
returned to her room with man. No one
has been found who saw the man 60 in,
but some neighbors heard him talking with
Mrs. Kelly in the IOom and heard her sing
ing, ss though drunk.
At II o'clock yesterday morning a man
named Bowyer, an agent of the landlord,
went to Mrs. Kelly's room to collect The
rent. When he knocked at the door he
received no answer. Removing the curtain
drawn acruss the window of the room, and
locking through broken pane, Bowysr
saw the woman lying in bed on her back,
stark naked, while marks of blood were al!
over the Place. He tried the hsrde of
the door and folnd it locked, while the
key had been removed from the lock.
without going into the loom Bowyer
called the police, who promptly proceeded
to conceal all the facts in the case.
In less than two ours the doctors had
ths body in the morgue and were exsmin-
log it precisely as they did the MItre
Square victim. They refused to give any
details concerning the examination, but
one of the physicians present admitted
that he had passed much Of his life in the
diss :ction room, but Ea1 never seen such
a horrible spectacle a3 tie murdered wo-
msn. The man who was called to iden-
tify the body gives the following descrip.
ton, which seems to be reliable: Her head
was nearly severed from the shoulders and
the fAcs was lacerated almost beyond recog-
milton. The breasts were both cut off and
laid on a table and the hsart and liver
plac ed between the woma1's legs, and sew
eral organs we're missing. Thtre seemed
to be at least forty cuts ia the tody, and
big pieces Of flesh were literally stripped
off and strewn on the 6co!. There were
no indications in this case of hand skilled
in the use of the knife. The body was lit
orally hacked 10 pieces, but there is no
doubt at all that il is the work of the per-
son who has been known throughout the
world as the White chapel murderer"
Pcofting by their previous blunders, the
police called a photographer to take pic
ture of the room before the body was re-
moTed. This gave rise to the r'port that
there was more handwriting on the wall,
though three or four people who were al
lowed to enter the room say they did no;
observe it. Bat possibly they were tco
excited to rots such details.
II is s.a-cely necessary to say much
about Mrs. Kelly. She WIS ms rried wo-
man, who fell into dis ,olUte ways and vas
d. serted by her husband. She had a boy
eleven years cl3 ::wfO was begging in the
strtc:s while his mother was murdered.
The woman hes lat ly tesn living with
man who sells oranges on the strests, and
OF whom, as he conli not be found, sus
pic:on at once reverted, but he turned mp
all right last night, and tainted when he
was shown the murdered wouan's body.
The latest victim Of the "Whitechsp:l
fend,n as he has come to be called, Is the
seventh. The first of the mysterious muir
ders in the White chapel district-Which
lies Just east OF the city Of London, its
centre being b Jut three quarters Of mile
from the Bank of Eugland-was commit.
ted early on the morning Of August Z. A
policeman found the oiy OF q poorly-clsd
woman lying at full length on tbs pave
Church. Her throat wss cut from ear to
ear, and she had ben disemboutled. At
the iuquest the body was identified as that
of Martha Turner, a social outcSss
On August 81, Just before daybre,k, o
policeman found another woman of the
same class, nsmsd Mary Ann Nichols, "
ing dead with her throat cut in precisely
the same manner a. MTths Turner'S bs ID
bssn, and with the same brutal outrages
committed upon the btdy after death. Toe
body Of this stcJId victim was found 200
yards distant from the scsns Of the frat
murder.
Exactly week lster policeman discoT'