The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-10-13
HORRlBLEI |
An Outrageous Murder Com.
fiiitt I'd Near Glasgow.
A MOST sICKBNING FIND.
a WOman's Body Discovered Frightfully
Gut and Mangled,

A Man Named McEwan the Suspected
Butcher and His Crime savors strongly
OF Jack the Ripper-The Most Cold
Blooded villain That Ever Lived--In-
tense Excitement in the City.
GLASGOW, Oct. 12.-The most horri-
BILE murder in the criminal history Of
this city was committed at West Lodge,
villa on the Albert road in Pollok.
shields, on the outskirts of Glasgow. A
woman, still unidentified, was mutt
lated after the method of Jack the
Ripper" was dismembered and the
pieces of her body were buried in the
villa garden. McEwan, the gardener,
who doubtless is guilty of the crime,
has disappeared West Lodge is one of
the finest suburbs of Glasgow and is
surrounded by garden some 1875 feet
deep on every side. McEwan, with the
assistant gardner, MacDougall, lived in a
separate house, and when not busy at
the villa he did odd jobs in the neigh.
borhood. He is a native of County
Down, Ireland, is about 80 years old
pnd although a heavy drinker he has
borne a good reputation. He is man
Of great physical strength.
At 9 o'clock in the morning MacDou-
gall knocked at McEwan's door to wake
him, as he has done for the last six
years. McEwan responded with un.
usual promptitude.
"All right, Tom, 1 won't get up yet,
am tired.
MacDougall went away and worked
N fl,a rro,Ia,, ,,nfil pin1nrl tyboY, ha
returned to arouse McEwan. His
knocks were not answered when he
forced open the door. He found the
walls, ceiling, furniture and floor spat-
tered profusely with blood. The clothes
from the two beds were scattered over
the floor and were sprlnkled with blood.
Finger marks streaked one side of the
bed and door and there was not piece
Of furniture or an article of clothing
which was not blood stained.
A Most siokenins Find.
MacDougall ran coatless, hatless and
crying in his terror to the police station
and told his story. After fortifying him
with brandy the police took him to West
Lodge with them, From the room they
followed bloody trail to four fresh
made mounds in the garden. In a
flower bed, from which the plants had
been removed, they found about two
feet under ground the mutilated head
and unjointed arm of a woman. In an
other similar bed they uncovered the
trunk. 1t was absolutely devoid of all
internal organs Beside the trunk was
the woman's left arm, also unjointed.
In another flower bed they found the
missing organs and the legs, unjointed
&s were the arms. The trail led from
this last bed to Toulouse. There, I'M
der pile of rubbish and tools, was
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 organs
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. Mac
Dougall was unable to give any infor-
nation as to McEwan's deed or the dis
position Of the body, for he was work
ing at the time on the opposite side of
the house, as was shown by fresh turned
earth. He believes that when he
knocked at 8 o'clock McEwan was carv-
ing up the body, as McEwan's voice in
dicated that he was wide awake.
The Victims Appearance.
AS far as can be judged from the
mutilated remains Of the body. Nc
Evans victim was robust, of medium
height and about 80 or 35 years old.
Her clothing was well made and of good
material. McEwan probably took her
to the house after o'clock, for at that
time McDougall called upon him and
found him alone. That is the last time
McEwan was seen by anybody near
West Lodge. How McEwan induced
her to enter the house with him and
what was his motive in the murder are
mysteries. Itwas reported Immediately
after the news of the murder got out
that McEwan was Jack the Ripper,
and that at the time of the Ripper "
murders he was absent from Glasgow,
but these reports are discredited.
McEwan was engaged to marry re-
spectacle girl who is maid in a Glasgow
family. The mother, when she heard
of the murder, supposed that her daugh-
ter was the victim and ran to West
Lodge. She could not identify the
clothing as her daughters, however, and
last evening the girl was found. The
police say that McEwan had little money
and will soon be captured The
woman's body has been put together as
well as possible and now lies at the
morgue awaiting Identification.