St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-12
Terrible Butchery of an I'm
known Woman in Glas-
gov, Scotland.
The Victim Literally Chopped
to Pieces by the Fiend-
iSh Murderer.
All Internal Organs Removed
and the Limbs and Body
Dismembered.
Police Hope to Soon Capture
the Murderer, Who Has
Disappeared.

murder in the criminal history of this
city was committed last night at West
Lodge. village on the outskirts of
Glasgow. A woman, still unidentified,
was mutiiated after the method of Jack
the Ripper, dismembered, and the
pieces of her body were buried in the
village garden. McEwan, the gardener,
who doubtless is guilty of the crime,
has disappeared.
West Lodge is one of the finest sub
urbs of Glasgow, and is surrounded by
garden some 125 feet deep on every
side. McEwan, with the assistant gar
dener, McDougal. lived in separate
house. and, when not busy at the villa,
he did odd jobs in the neighbour God.
He is a native of County Downe, Ire
land, is about thirty years old, and al
though occasionally a heavy drinker,
he has borne good reputation. He is
man of great physical strength.
At 8 o'clock McDougal knocked at
McEwan's door to awaken him. as he
had done for the last six years.
NcE,-an Responded,
with unusual promptitude. ''All right,
Tom; L won't get up yet; l am tired"
McDougal went away and worked in
the garden until O'Clock, when he re-
turned to arouse McEwan. His knocks
were not answered, and he forced open
the door. He found the walls, ceiling.
furniture and floor Spattered profuSeIy
with blood. The clothes from the two
beds were scattered over the floor and
were sprinkled with blood. Red finger
marks streaked the side of one of the
beds and the door. There was not.
piece of furniture or an article of cloth
ing which was not blood-stained.
McDougal ran coatless. hatless and
crying in his terror to the police station
and told his story. After fortlfying him
with brandy the police took him to West
Lodge with them. From the room they
followed a bloody track to four fresh
made mounds III the garden. In
flower bed, from which the plants had
been removed, they found, about two
feet under ground, the mutilated head
and unjointed arm of woman. In an
ather similar bed they
Uncovered The Trunk.
1t was absolutely devoid of all in
ternal organs. Beside the trunk was
the woman's left arm, also disjOinted.
In another flower bed they found the
missing organs, and the legs unjointed,
as were the arms. The trail led from
this last bed to tool house. There,
under pile of rubbish and tools, was a
biscuit box containing fragment of
large saw, the teeth still clOtted with
flesh and blood and several smaller
pieces Of the woman'S body. The police
say that the box was used by McEwan
in transporting the limbs and the or
gans from his room to the garden.
a search of McEwan'S room revealed
several razors, apparently unused for
some time, and an AK recently washed,
but still showing slight blood stains.
McDougal was unable to give any in
formation as to McEwan'S deed or the
disposition of the body, for he was
working at the time OIL the opposite side
of the house.as was shown by the fresh
turned earth. He believes that when
he knocked at McEwan was carving
up the body, as McEWan's voice indi-
Gated that he was wide awake.
As far as can be judged from the mu-
tilated remains of the body,
McEyyan's Victim
was robust, of medium height and
about thirty or thirty-tive years old.
Her clothing was we'll made and of good
material. McEwan probably took her
to the house after6 O'Clock, for at that
time McDougal called upon him and
found him alone. That is the last time
McEwan was seen by anybody near
West Lodge. How and when McEwan
induced the woman to enter the house
with him and what was his motive in
the murder are mysteries. 1t was re-
ported Immediately after the news of
tine murder got out that McEwan was
Jack the Ripper and that at the time
of the RiDper murders he was aDSeD
from Glasgow, but these reports are
discredited.
McEwan was engaged to marry re-
spectacle girl who is maid in Glasgow
family. The mother, when she heard
of the murder, supposed that her laugh
ter was the victim, and ran to West
Lodge. She could not identify the
clothing as her daughters however, and
this evening the girl was found. The
police say that McEwan had little money
and will soon be captured. The wom-
ans body has been put together as well
as possible, and now lies at the morgue
awaiting Identification.