New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-10
THE LONDON FIEND AGAIN.
THE NINTH VICTIM OF THE wHrTECHAPEL
MONSTER

MONSTER
rHr BODY OF WOMAN FRIGHTEULLY MUTI
LATED FOUND IN ROOM IN DoRsETsT,
sRITALFIELDs - BLooDHoUNbS oB
NO AvAIL-THE MATTER BRoACHED
IN PARLIAMENT
London, Nov e.-The Whitechapel murder fend
has added another to his list of victims At
IL o'clock this morning the body Of woman. cut
into pieces was discovered in house on Dorset
st., Spitalfelds The police are endeavoring to
track the murderer with the aid Of bloodhounds.
The body was mutilated in the same horrible
manner as were those Of the women murdered
in Whitechapel.
The appearance Of the body was frightful,
and the mutilation was even greater than IN
the previous cases. The head had been severed
and placed beneath one of the arms. The ears
and nose had been cut of. The body had been
lisembowelled and the flesh was torn from the
thighs. Certain portions of the body miss
ing The skin had been torn of the forehead
and cheeks One hand had been pushed into
the stomach.
The victim. like all the others. was fallen
woman. She was married and her husband was
q porter. They had lived together at intervals
Her name is believed to have been Lizzie Fisher,
but to most of the habitues Of the haunts sho
visited she was known as Mary Jane. She had
room in the house where she was murdered. She
carried a iatch-key and no one knows at what
hour she entered the house last night and probably
no one saw the man who accompanied her. There
fore It is Hardly likely that he will ever be
identified. He might easily have left the house
at any time between l and o'clock this morning
without attracting attention.
The doctors who have examined the body re-
fusn IN malxe any statement until the inquest is
held.
Three bloodhounds belonging to private citt
zens were taken TO the place where the body lay
and placed on the scent Of the murderer, but they
unable to keep it for any great distance, and
all hope of running the assassin down with their
assistance will have to be abandoned
The murdered woman told companion last
evening that she was without money, and would
commit suicide if she did not obtain a supply.
1t has been learned that man, respectfully
dressed sccosted the victim and offered her
money. They went to her lodgings on the sec
ond floor of the Dorsct-st. house No noise was
heard during the night, and nothing was known
of the murder until the landlady went to the
early this morning to ask for her rent
The first thing she saw on entering the room
was the womans breasts and viscera lying on
table.
close to Mitre Square and Hanbury-st
In the House of Commons to-day Mr.. Cony-
beare asked the question whether if it true
that another woman had been murdered in Lon
don, General Warren, the Chief of the Metro
politan Police ought not to be superseded by an
officer accustomed 20 investigate crime.
The question was greeted by cries of Oh
Ohln The Speaker called Order Order!" and
said that notice must be given of the question |
in the usual way.
Mr.. Conybeare replied: Il have given pri-
vate notice.
The Speaker-The notice must be made in
writing
MIR Cunninghame- Graham then asked whether
General Warren had already resigned, TO which
Mr.. Smith, the Government leader, replied No"
This last addition to the number of terrifying mur
ders in the whltechape district makes the ninth victim
who has been butchered under the same mysterious
circumstances. The first Whitechapel murder oc-
,urred about year No notice was taken of the
rhine the victim a fallen woman and It was
supposed TO be nothing uncommon that such deed
hould be committed in such locality, Whore the
yilest resorts Of London are located The victim
,uIfed In the Poter's Field and little effort was made
o discover the murderer. The second murder did
lot occur till August 7 last, but 1T undoubtedly
he work Of the hand, the woman being man gled
nd mutilated in peculiar manner. The police made
ONE unusual effort TO find tho murderer this time.
ut without
The excitement caused among the people of the
last End this second crime had hardly begun to
hside when a third found murdered
nder the revolving circumstances, on the morn
lg of August 81. The victims were all of the same
lass of fallen women. Then panic of horror and
,ar began to seize upon the people Of London, es-
cially among the class which the unknown fend
,ecmd to single out for his awful work. This panic
ltenshed BY the murder of fourth eight days
lter This time the butchered in the
ackyard of No 20 Hanbury-st., not 100 yards from
10 place where of his former victims +
cred. On a wall above the mangled body were ,
rtten these words: :
Fifteen before l surrender. 4
The police were now thoroughly aroused but all !,
forts to track the monster proved unsuccessful =
srcely had they begun to relax their efforts before
,e murderer struck again. killing his fifth victim
ptember g. at Gateshead near Newcaste-onTy Tyne. On
eptember 80, at O'Clock in the morning, the sixth +
uidered woman found in Berners-st, 6
hitecbapel, but the murderer had probably I
zen frightened away, the body i
as not mutilated as in all the other cases. Fifteen
inutes after discovering the sixth body the seventh
e murderer had completed his work for the body e
C day following, the eighth body was found on the
bames Empankment in the Whitechapel district. fl
lis last victim, however had been dead for time
This series of atrocities rapidly succeeding each ~
her created the widest eXcmen in London, and the
amor against the police officials for their failure p
find the fend was great. The London papers de-
ted many columns to the murders, and many sug-
stions as to the method of finding the murderer
ere advanced. Bloodhounds used without
ect by the police. People who live I'm the White "
APPEL neighbofhood came forward and gave dcscrP OF
ms OF shabby gentccl man with wild look In his al
es who had been noticed in the vicinity and had ~
en- seen with some of the murdered women. The =,
pers were full of descriptions of him and IL IS sup
scd that the length of time Which has elapsed since
last victim fell due TO the murdercr's desire
let the excitement subsde so that he could resume
S awful work I'm safety According to his legend on
wall above the body of the Hanbury-st. victim, h
st remains six unfortunates 10 fall before the W
ssterious murderer. -,