The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-09-19
ANOTHER euTcHERy.
The Terribly MutiIsted Body OF One
More Fallen Woman Found i'm the
Whitechapei District-IndicatiOns That
Two Fiends Are 1t Work.

rho Terribly MutiIsted Body Or One
More Fallen Woman Found I'm the
Whitechapei Distrlct-Indications That
Two FIsnds Arc 1t Work.
LONDON. Sept 1.-The most horrible
murder yet perpetrated In the Whitechapcl
district came to light Tuesday morning,
when policeman discovered the body Of .
direputab.s woman lying under she rail-
way arch that spans Cable street The
head aud legs had been :ar of and car
ried away and .h0 stomach ripped open,
leaving the bowels lying upon the ground.
The trunk was nude and a torn and bloody
nndergarment lay on the ground be-
side 1T From the fact that there
was no blood on the ground 1t Is app rent
that the woman was butchercd somewhere
else and the body conveyed to the
place where 1t was found. Experts are OF
opinion that the woman was killed at least
two days ago, and that the murderer, who
seems to have possessed considerable sur
gical skill. must have consumed several
hours In the dissection of his victim.
The body Is evidently that Of young
woman between ~ and 30 years OF age, and
there is absolutely nothing about II in its
mutilated state to give the slightest clue to
its identity. Tho hands are not those OF
working woman. but there are no marks
upon the fingers by which 1t cou.d be con-
jectured whether or no she had ever worn
. wedding ring.
It Is thought that the work Is that Of
some other than the notorious Jack the
Ripper, and II so it reveals the fact that
there are two series Of murders being COM
mitted by two separate criminals under tho
eyes Of the police in the heart of London.
Their deeds differ In the fact that the Ripper
carries away portions Of his victims remains
which are untouched in the unf0rtunates
who fall by the knife Of the unknown fiend
Tuesdays is the fourth tragedy In which
only the trunk of q woman's body has been
found and the head and limbs not dis
covered The tirst was found at Rain
ham, where 1t had been thrown up
by the Thames three years ago The
second was the body found near Charing
Cross soon after. The third was the trunk
found in Battersea Park, East Spring, the
legs Of which were afterward cast up by
the Thames In these three instances the
bodies have remained unidentified and the
heads have never been found. The
present case will doubtless be iden-
tical, as the prevailing theory is that
this murderer bludgeons his victims and
then sewers and burns the heads, throwing
| what other members he Is unable to dis
pose Of otherwise into the Thames. -Four
undetected murders. therefore. lie at the
| door of this savage. The seven murders
in which abdominal decorations occurred
/ between April 8 and November, lssS,
may be attributed to the Ripper. and the
ono OF July 10 laet to q near imitator of the
oviscerator. In all twelve murders have
been committed under circumstances
/ which should render the perpetrators un.
II - h,,% - ~
police have not the slightest clew.
Ono theory is that the affair is hoax
perpetrated by medical students, who took
the body from some dissecting room anc
placed 1t there In order to create an excite
meut In the city