The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11

Probably . Woman sn the Opi.sea ee Oss
ofshe Most Enntaent OF Lsndon surgeoas
From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Mr.. Lawson TAFT, the eminent womcn's
surgeon, having read the sn99estion pub
lished In oar column on Thursday that
slack the Ripper might he . woman,
had yesterday q chat with one of our rep
rcscntatives. He said:
"No serious suggestion In connection
with this matter that one can make may
bc wisely discarded ar made light of. Tbs
police have discovered nothing, and are
evidently at thsir wits end. They must
AZ have taken n great Interest In those
tragedies from the very
Now. looking AIT the subject as a surgeon,
the first conclusion i. thai the whole OF
the murders, not only in whitcchapel,
hut i'm Battcrsea and Chelsea, are. the
work OF one and the same in.iivid5ni.
the crimes arr. the work Of ~ lunatic. The
absolute motivelessness of the whole
"Again the operator must have been ac-
s.i>tomcsi Ia use q sharp knife upon meat.
The work was done by no surgeon. A
Surgeon cuts in "a niggiiuR kind Of way:
The murderer i'm these cases has worked
In IA free, slashinR manned The criminal
must have been !. butcher. AND a London
peculiar to the London butcher. They
would have been made quite d~iircrrntiy
Il the operator had hailed from Dublin or
81 have said the criminal was mad. lie
or she is undoubtedly a. person suffering
for Al short time. May not the police he
tioored at the outset by thu Important
S ~. s,s Of sGs ,,v The IN IN, male spi ~ un,n has
this il not so. This il something to GO
upon. Granted that IN cpiIcptic bc
1T the offender would have no recollcc-
ton Of the murder and cutting up. and
would resume his or her everyday life in
no way pcrturbesl 10y what had happened.
Nothing is more likely than that Jack the
Ripper il some big, strong woman en-
gagged at IL slaughter house in cleaning
mp. now and then actually cutting up
Again. In "a number Of instances. the
The bodies were warns: the murderer
could not Inc far away. The fact that the
police were so close upon the criminal
goes To prove tn q wonderful degree that
the operator was "a woman. On the dis
covery Of one of the murders the police
promptly made q circuit round the neigh
no man was a~rrestcd-they did not look
for q woman"
.How could a woman have SO cleverly
lit must he clearly understood that
whoever was the criminal would be
he impossible to hack and hew IA warm
body i'm Ripper fashion without getting
all over blooi; A man who thus be,
got clear away time after time. The
thing would he perfectly easy. for "a
TSi, nick ss' % "r'' a Liberty n e ! Hif rw.H"
aud placed il round himself lik, an apron.
'Conccive the murder done and the
to do is to- roll up her skirt to-
her waist. leaving her prtticoat. and fold
up the shawl that is over her shoulders
and tucked in at her middle. Then she
might pass through the crowd with the
very slightest fear Of detection.
mcnts. What would a man do? Plunge
them into hot water. Result, the blood
coagulatcs. wont como oil. and stains
the clothes. And where is he to get hot
water. or how is no to pour away bloody
water u~ndctccted" A woman is always
at the washing tub, and she would put the
soap and rubbing, they would become
clean, practically unstained, and Ia
would he u~nsuspcctcd.
connection with what has been termed
the ficudisIl d~iscmbowclling of the bodies
and with reference to the particular place
at which the incisions have been begun.
IL is mo- wild slashing. done without
method hy "a novice with the knife. HAY
the operator simply by an act of uncon-
scious cercbration goes to work in the
regular butcher fashion. Having slit the
calls neck. the next thing tn bc dome is To
make an incision at the bottom al the ab-
lon,en and lay aside the various organs
quests as having been done. The rescm-
biancc between the 'Rippcr's' work and
that of the butchers is complete.
"On at least one of the occasions when
the police came upon the scene theirs, were
tn he noticed several women in the crowd
that quickly gathered. Had thos. by
chance that the criminal would have been
captul ed"
police - oar representative asked.
Let them visit all the slaughter houses
in the strict, inquire AS to male or female
regular assistants ar occasional helps
there are not So many slaughter houses,
and they are all licensed and under the