Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-07
Whitechappel Excited by Another
Attempted Outrage.
an OPEN SWITCH CAUSES A WRECK.
French Publishers Must Apologize
for LibeIing the Kaiser.
SENATOR GEORGES CANVASS.
ANOTHER wHITECHAPEL MURDER
The Assailant Escapes and Leaves No Traces
-Is II the " Ripperf"

Xne Aseallent Escapes and Leaves No Traces
-Is It the I" Ripperf''
LONDON, ,August7.-Much excitement was occa-
stoned in the Whitechapel district this morning
when q rumor was rapidly passed from mouth
to mouth that the dreaded "Jack the Ripper +"
had again appeared and committed one of the
butcheries that have made his name shousehold
word in this most ill-favored portion Of London.
At an early hour this morning one Of the
denizens Of Whitechapel. an old woman named
merous dark alleys with which the re-
gion abounds she was set upon BY an
unknown man armed with Q sharp
knife. The place where the assault was made
was dark and dismal one, and as the hour was
doorways or under arches, where they lay in
drunken slumber. As rows are Of nightly,
almost hourly, occurrence in Whitechapel no
attention was paid, II, indeed, any noise was
heard, to what was, Of course, taken for one of
the usual drunken scufles. But for the old
woman it was q scuf1e for life. From what can
be learned Of the circumstances surrounding
the attack it appears that the man, whom the
people of Whitechapei are firmly convinced
was the famous Ripper" used his knife with
fendish ferocity.
He grasped the woman by the head, and
dra wing her back ward, he with one hand across
her mouth silenced the cries she would nat
urally have tried to make, while with the other
hand he drew the keen-bladed knife across her
tightly drawn throat, infiicting terrible
wound. Then, using the knife a dagger, he
plunged 1t 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 of 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 afterward, she was
discovered by passing policeman she was un-
conscious and In dying condition. She is
seventy years old.
The police are, a. usual. hunting for some
clue that will lead to the identification of the
murderer, but, as in all the other Whitechapel
crimes, the assassin has disappeared, leaving
no trace save his mutilated victim.
THE woMAN's STORY.
The woman was taken to a hospital and after
time she recovered sufficiently to tell of the
attack made upon her. She is a German and,
unlike the other women murdered and mutt
lated in Whitechapel, she was not in the COM
pany OF the man who attacked her, but was
passing along the street when, without warn
ing, the the assassin sprang upon her. She
blade, but was unable to escape from the
grasp Of her assailant. She raised her arm to
defend her throat from the sweeping blow
aimed at it and it was through this movement
that the wound in her arm was received. When
Act eooaAout ICAcobcu ueI ILOm ule gTdsp hQe
fel. upon doorstep. Despite her terrible in
juries she still retained possession of her senses.
and though the wound in her throat was bleed
ing profusely she was able to articulate, the
weapon not having reached the windpipe.
Several persons passed while she was living
on the doorstep. and though they endeavored
to ascertain what the trouble was she could not
speak English sufficiently well to make them
understand that an attempt had been made TO
murder her.
1t is understood that the police found razor
covered with blood near the scene of the crime
The wound in the woman'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 10 believed that they were
caused by either a knife or a dagger, as they
appear to be stab wounds, and not such as
would be made with q razor.
One man has been taken into custody on sus-
against him is yery weak and no imnor,anca ia
attached to the arrest.