Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-08-07
JACK THE RIPPER AGAIN.
BLOODY DEED HN
WHITE CHAPEL.

An Aged German vvonian's Throat
cut and Stabbed to Death Early
this BKOrning-The Police, as
Usual, H.oOlxiuw for a clue.
LONDON, August 7.--Much excitement
was occasioned in the White Chapel dis.
ttict this morning when the rumor was
rapidly passed from mouth to mouth
that dreaded Jack the Ripper had again
appeared and committed one of the
butcheries that has made his name a
household word in this most ill-favorcd
part of London.
Early this morning as one of the
denizens OF White Chapel, an old white
woman named Wooik, was passing
through one of the 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 dark and as the hour was carly the
usual prowlers had sought refuge in
doorways or under arches where they
lay in drunken stupors.
As rows are of nightly, almost hourly,
occurance, in White Chapel, no attention
was paid, if, indeed, any noise was heard,
to what was Of course taken for one OF
the usual drunken scuffles, but for an old
woman it was scuffle for life.
From what can be learned of the cir
cumstanccs surrounding the attack it
appears that man whom the people oi
White Chapel are firmly convinced was
the famous Ripper" used his knife with
fendish ferocity. He grasped the woman
by the head and drawing her backward
with one hand across her mouth silenced
her cries. She would naturally have
tried to make an effort. With the other
hand he drew a keen bladed knife across
her tightly drawn throat, infictinG a
terrible wound, then using the knife as a
dagger, he plunged 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 as
sailant the woman dropped with the
blood pouring from her wounds and
when, shortly afterward, she was dis
covered by the passing policeman she
was unconscious and in dying condi
ton.
She is seventy years old.
The police are, as usual, hunting ioi
some clue that will lead to the identih
cation OF the murderer, but as i'll al
other White Chapel crimes, the assassin
has disappeared, leaving no trace save
his mutilated victim.
The woman was taken to hoslnta
and after time recovered sufficiently tC
tell of the attack made upon her.
She is a German, and. unlike othcl
women murdered and mutilated on Whit
Chapel, she was not in the company o
the man who attacked her, but was pas
sing along the street, when, withou
warning, the assassin sprung upon her
She saw the glitter of the upraised stee
blade, but was unable to escape from tn
enraged assailant. She raised her am
to defend her throat from the sweep
ing blow aimed at it and !
was through this movement tina
the wound in her arm was received
When her assailant released her from hi
grasp she fell upon the door step. De
spite her terrible injuries she still fe
tanned her senses, and though tn
wound in her throat was bleeding pro
fusely she was able to articulate, III
weapon not having reached the win
pipe.
The police found razor covered wit
blood near the scene Of the crime.
One man has been taken into custod
on suspicion Of being the assassin, bu
the evidence against him is very wea
and no Importance attached to the arrest