The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-12
LIKE JACK THE RIPPER.
Most Horrible Murder on the Out
skirts of Glasgow.
A WOMAN FEARFULLY MUTILATED

A Tragedy Which Recalls the Work
OF London's Mysterious Fiend
Arouses the Scotch Capitalize
Murderer Escapes.
GLASGOW, Oct. 12.-The most horrible
murder in the criminal history of this
city was committed at West Lodge, a
villa on the Albert road, in Pollokshields.
on the outskirts of Glasgow. A woman
still unidentified was mutilated after the
method of Jack the Ripper" was dis
membered, and the pieces of her body
were buried in the villa garden. Nc
Evan, 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 q
garden some 1876 feet deep on every side.
McEwan, with the assistant gardener.
MacDougall, lived in a separate house,
and when not busy at the villa he did
odd jobs in the neighborhood. He is
native of County Down. Ireland, is about
30 years o-l, and although occasionally
a heavy drinker he has borne good
reputation. He is a man of great phys
ical strength
AT 8 o'clock in the morning Mac
Dougall knocked at McEwan's door to
wake him, as he has done for the last six
years. McEwan responded with unusual
promptitude: "All right, Tom. won't
get up yet; l am tired"
Everything Smeared with Blood.
MacDougall went away and worked in
the garden until 8 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 profusely
with blood. The clothes from the two
beds were scattered over the floor and
were sprinkled with blood Red finger
marks streaked the sides of the beds and
doors. There was not piece of furni-
ture or an article of clothing which was
not blood stained.
and told his story, and 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 flower bed, from which the plants
had been removed, they found two feet
under ground the mutilated head and
unjointed arm Of woman. In another
similar bed they uncovered the trunk. 1t
was absolutely devoid of all internal or
gans. Beside the trunk was the woman's
left arm, also unjointed. In another
flower bed they found the missing organs
and the legs, unjointed, as were the arms.
Bloody Weapons Found.
The train led from this last bed to
tool house. There, under pile of rub
bish and tools was a biscuit box contain
ing fragment of large saw, the teeth
still clotted with flesh and flood, and
several smaller pieces of the womans
body. The police say that the box was
used by McEwan i'll transporting the
limbs and the organs from his room to
the garden. A search of McEwan's
room revealed several razors, apparently
usused for some time, and an AK, recently
washed, but still showing slight blood
stains. MacDougall believes that when
he knocked McEwan was carving up the
body, as McEwans voice indicated that
he was wide awake.
AS far as can be judged from the mu-
tilated remains of the body, McEwan's
victim was robust, of medium height,
and about 80 or 30 years old. Her cloth
ing was well made and of good material.
McEwan probably took her to the house
after o'clock, for at that time Mac
Dougall called upon him and found him
alone. That is the last tin.e McEwan
was seen by anybody near West Lodge.
How and when McEwan induced the
woman to enter the house with him, and
what was hi motive in the murder are
mysteries. 1t was 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 those reports are discredited..
McEwan was engaged to marry n re-
spectacle girl, who is maid in the Glas-
e.. IL II
little money, and will soon be captured.
The woman's body has been put to-
gcther as well as possible and now lies
at the morgue awaiting identification.