Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-12
LONDON'S BLOODY FIEND.
TUO MORE WOMEN BUTCHERED IN
WHITECH4PEL.

0Ol4A hOAhA@Af N%'A<
MURDERED WITHIN THE sHAD-
ows OF A CLUB HOUSE.
LONDON, September 3O.-This
morning the whole city was again
startled by the news that two more
murders had been added to the list
OF mysterious crimes that have re-
Gently been committed in White
chapel. At an early hour it was
known that another woman had
been murdered, and a report was
also current that there was still
another victim. This report proved
true. The two victims, as In the
former cases, we're dissolute women
of the poorer class. That the mo-
tive of the murderer was not rob-
berry is shown by the fact that no
attempt was made to despoil the
bodies.
The first murder occurred in a
narrow court OF Barnes street, at
an early hour this morning, be-
meath the windows of foreigners
socialist club. A concert was in
progress, and many members of
the club were present, but no
sound was heard from the victim.
The same process had been fol-
lowed as in the other cases. The
woman had been seized by the
throat and her cries choked, and
the murderer, with one sweeping
cut, had severed her throat from
ear to ear. A club man, on enter
ing the court, stumbled over the
body, which was lying only two
yards from the street. A stream
of warm blood was flowing from
the body into the gutter. The
murderer had evidently been dis
turbed before he bad time to mu-
tllate his victim.
The second murder was commit
ted three.quarters Of an hour later
in Mitre Square, FIVE minutes walk
from the scene OF the first crime.
Policemen patrol the square every
ten minutes. The body Of the IN.
fortunate woman had been disem
boweled, the throat cut, and the
nose severed. The heart and lungs
had been thrown aside, and the en- =
trails we're twisted into the gaping
wound around the neck.
The incisiOns show a rough dsx-
terity. The work Of dissection was
done with the utmost haste. Pend
ing the report Of the doctors 1t is
not known whether or not portion
of the visceras was taken away.
/ The doctors, after a hasty e1sml'
nation of the body, said they
thought it must have taken about
five minutes to complete the work
of the murder, who then had plenty
of time to escape the patrol. r
Mitre Square, the scene Of the
second murder, is thorougbfsre.
Many people pass through the
square early on Sunday morning
on their way to prepare for market
| in the notorious Petticoat Lane.
The publicity of the place adds to
the darlngness of the crime.
The police, who have been se-
vereIy criticised in connection with
/ the Whltechapel murders, are para
USED by these latest crimes. AS
soon as the news was received at
police headquarters a messenger
was dispatched for Sir Charles
Warren, chief commits sloner of po-
lice, who was called out Of bed,
and at once visited the scene OF
the murders. The inhabitants OF
Whitechapel are dismayed. The
vigilance committees, which were
formed after the first crimes were
committed, had relaxed their eff
forts to capture the murderer. At
several meetings held IN White
chapel tonight it was resolved to
resume the work OF patrOlling the
streets in the district in which the
murders had occurred.
HIS PREVIOUS CRIMES.
"The Knifer" began his horrible
work on WhitmOndsy. Six OF his
seven victims have been killed in
the neighborhood of Whitechapel.
Since it seems to be his intention
to murder as many abandoned wo-
men as possible, his choice of
Whitechapel as hunting ground
is a good one. 1t abounds in the
most degraded specimens of the
feminine sex, and it is one mass OF
dark, reeking, purIieus that look as
if they we're designed by some
friend of the highwsyman or ac-
complice of the ASSASSIN.
The first woman was stabbed in
thirty nine places. Those who
saw the body said that the muir
derer must have hacked it as with
devillsh delight.
Nine weeks ago the second wo-
man fell a prey TO the maniac. She
was butchered like sheep, beii
ripped entirely open.
Victim No. 3 was brutally carved.
Portions OF the body had been re.
moved. She, like her sisters, went
to her Maker fresh from life Of
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