The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-08
JACK. TRE RIPPER
1sAgainat Work Among Residents
of whitechapel.
THE FIEND BlFFLES THE POLICE.
Amer Cutting the Throatoras Seventy
Year-old Woman in the Street He
Makes Good His Escape, Leaving No
Clue--.Inspeotor Byrues's Capture
Don't Seem to End the Business.

LONDON, August 7.-Much excitement
was accustomed in the Whitechapel dis
trict this morning when 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-fayor-
ed portion of London.
That there was reason for the excite
ment there can be no denial. AT an
early hour this morning, as one Of the
denizens of Whitechapel, an old woman
named Wolf, was passing through one
of the numerous dark alleys with which
the region abounds, she was set upon by
an unknown man armed with a sharp
knife.
The place where the assault was made
was dark and dismal, and, as the hour
was early, the usual prowiers had sought
refuge In doorways or under arches
where they lay in drunken slumbers.
As rows are OF nightly, almost hourly,
occurrence in Whitechapel, no attention
was paid, if indeed noise was heard, to
what was, OF course, taken for one OF the
usual drunken scuttles. Buttor the old
woman it was scutile for life.
From what can be learned Of the cir
cumstances surrounding the butchery,
it appears that the man, whom the peo-
pie OF Whitechapel areirmly convinced
was tho famous Ripper" used his
knife with fiendish feroCity. BE grasped
the woman by the head, and drawing
her backward, he, with one hand across
her mouth, silenced the cries she would
naturally 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 us dagger, he
plunged it into her body again and
again. There is a 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 afterward,
she was discovered by passing police
man, she was unconscious and in dy-
condition. She is seventy years old.
The police are, as usual, hunting for
some clue that will lead to the identifi.
cation Of the. murderer, but, as in all
the other Whttechapel crimes, the as
sassin has disappeared, leaving no
trace save his mutflated victim.
The woman was taken to q hospital,
and after she recovered sufficiently to
tell of the attack made ou her She is a
German, and unlike the other women
murdered and mutilated in White
Chapel. She was not in the company OF
the man who attacked her, but was
passing along the street, when without
warning the assassin sprang upon her:
She saw the glitter of the upraised steel
blade, but was unable to escape from
the grasp of her assailant.
It is understood that the police found
razor covered with blood near the
scene of the crime. One man has been
arrested on suspicion of being the
assassin, but the evidence against him
Is very slight.