The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
he CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM IN CRIME
CURSED wHITECHAPEL.
He Cuts Woman's Throat and Slabs Her
Many Times-The Police Searching
for a Clue-The Victims
Statement.


was occasioned in the Whitechapel
district this morning when the rumor
was rapidly passed from mouth to
mouth that the dreaded "Jack the
Ripper had again appeared, and
committed one Of the butcheries that
has made his name household word
in this most ill favored portion of
London. That there was reason for
excitement there can be no denial. At
an early hour this morning as one of
the denizens of Whitechapel, an old
woman named Wolfe, was passing
through one Of the numerous dark
alleys with which the region abounds
she was set upon by an unknown man
armed with sharp knife.
The place where the assault was
made was a dark and dismal one, and
as the hour was early the usual prowl-
ers had sought refuge in the doorways
or under arches, where they lay in
drunken slumber. AS rows are of
nightly, almost hourly, occurrence in
Whitechapel, no attention was paid,
If indeed any noise was heard, to what
was the cause, it of course being taken
for one Of the usual drunken scuf1ies.
But for the old woman it was a scuffie
for life. From what can be learned of
the circumstances surrounding the
attack it appears that the man whom
the people of Whitechapel are
firmly convinced was the famous
"Rippern used his knife with fiendish
ferocity. He grasped the woman by
the head and drawing her backward
he, with one hand across her mouth,
the cries she naturally would
have tried to make, while with the
other hand he drew the keen bladed
knife across her tightly drawn throat,
inflicting a terrible wound. Then
using the knife as dagger he plung-
ed it into her body again and again.
There is deep wound on the
woman's arm which it is believed was
received while she was attempting to
ward off the ferOcious blows aimed at
her body.
When released from the grasp of
her assailant the woman dropped to
the ground with the blood pouring
from her wounds, and when shortly |
she was discovered by a |
passing policeman she was uncon-
scious and in dying condition. She
is seventy years old. The police are
rs usual hunting for some clue that
will lead to the Identification of the
but as in all other White
Chapel crimes the assassin has dis
appeared, leaving no trace save his
nutilated victim.
The woman was taken to the hos
pital, and after q time she recovered |
to tell of the attack made
upon her. She is a German, and I'M
mutilated in Whitechapel, she was
not in the company of the man who
attacked her but was passing along
the street, and when the waiting as
sassin sprung upon her she saw the
glitter of his appraised steel blade but
was unable to escape from the grip of
her assailant. She threw up her
arm to defend her from the sweeping
blow aimed at her, and it was at this
that the wound in her arm
was received. When her assailant re-
leased her she fell upon the doorstep.
Despite her terrible wounds she still
retained possession Of her senses, and
though the wound in her throat was
profusely, she was able to
the weapon not hav-
ing reached the windpipe. Sew
eral persons passed while she
was lying on the doorstep
though they endeavored to ascertain
what the trouble was. She could n o
speak English sufficiently well
make herself understood that an at =
tempt had been made to murder her.
1t is understood the police found a
razor covered with blood near the
scene of the crime. The wound in the
woman's throat could have been
caused by razor as could
also deep cut in her arm,
but from the nature of the other
wounds it is believed that they were
caused by either knife or dagger
rs they appear to be stab wounds and
not such as would be made with a
,azor. One man has been taken into
custody on suspision of being the as
;assin, but the evidence against him
s very weak.