Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-08
A AwHITECHAPEL MURDER.

An old Woman Attacked in an Alley
 by a Man-Fatal Wounds Inflicted
 With a Knife-Is IL SJack the Rip
 per-, Againa-The Victims Account
 of the Attack.
 LONDON, Aug. 7.-Much excitement was caused in the Whitechapel district this morning when rumor was rapidly passed from mouth to mouth that the dreaded "Jack the Ripper" had again appeared and committed another of his butcheries.
 Early this morning, as one of the deni- zens of Whitechapel, an old woman named Woolfe, was passing through dark alley, she was set upon by an unknown man armed with a sharp knife. AS the hour was early the usual providers had sought refuge in doorways or under arches, where they lay in drunken slumbers. As rows are of almost hourly occurrence in White chapel no attention was paid, if, indeed, any noise was heard, to what was taken for one of the usual drunken scuffies. But for the old woman it was scuff1e for life
 From what can be learned of the circum- stances surrounding the attack it appears
 
 chapel are firmly convinced was the famous "Ripper," grasped the woman by the head and drawing her backward with one hand across her mouth he silenced her cries, while with the other hand he drew a keen bladed knife across her throat, in- fiicting terrible wound. Then using the knife as dagger he plunged it into her body again and again. There is deep wound on the woman's arm which it is be- Il. ing to ward off the blows aimed at her body. When released from her assailant the woman dropped to the ground with the blood pouring from her wounds and when, soon sfterward, she was discovered by passing policeman she was uncon- scious and in dying condition. She is seventy years old.
 The woman was taken to a hospital and after time she recovered sufficiently to tell of the attack made upon her. She was German, and unlike the other wo- | men murdered and mutilated in White | chapel, she was not in the company of the man who attacked her, but was passing along the when, without warning, the as- | sassin sprang upon her. She saw the glitter of the upraised blade, but was un- able to escape from the grasp of her as- sailant. She raised her arm to defend her | throat from the blow aimed at it, and it was through this movement that the wound in her arm was received. When her assailant released her from his grasp she fell upon doorstep. Despite her ter rible injuries, she still retained pos session of her senses. and though the wound in her throat was bleeding profusely, she was able to articulate, the weapon not having reached the windpipe. Several persons passed while she was lying on the door step, and though they endeav- ored to ascertain what the trouble was, she could not speak English sufficiently well to make them understand that an at | tempt had been made to murder her.
 It is understood that the police found 6 razor covered with blood near the scene of the crime. The wound in the womsn's throat could have been caused by a razor, as could also the deep cut in her arm, but from the nature of the other wounds it is believed that they were caused by either s knife or dagger, as they appear to bt stab wounds.
 A man has been taken into custody or suspicion of being the assassin, but the evidence against him is very weak.