The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-09-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE INQUEST ON ANNIE CHAPMAN.  The inquest on the body of Annie Chapman, the victim in the last of the Whitechapel tragedies, was regained on We Ines*, before Ur Wynne Baxter, the district Ccrane,r. Some unimportant evidence having been given by a woman with whom deceased had a quarrel in public house, Dr. Phillips, the police surgeon, was retailed, and had his previously-given testimony read over to him. in answer to a suggestion that he should lay before the jury certain facts which he had expressed his unwillingness to state openly, Dr. Phillips again said that the publication of the further facts could throw no light on the cause of death, and snub publication was therefore to be deprecated. The Coroner, however, insisted that Dr. Phillips should proceed with his testimony, saying that the Press might be trusted to use 'discretion in reporting it. and witnets accordingly went on to detail farther facts as to the gross and heetisl menner in which the body had been mutilated after death. lie save ' his reasons for believing that the knife used by the murderer was long and extremely sharp, and again expressed the eouvietion, based on the manner in which the abdomen had been opened and the missing portions of the body excisedthat the outrage was committed by someone possessed of anatomical knowledee. All the injuries could not have been inflicted in less than a quarter .of an hour. and would probably take longer. I The organs removed from the abdomen ! would not occupy much space, and might easily he concealed. The Coroner observed that the doctor who examined the body of Nichols. the other murdered woman, was of opinion that in that case the injuries to the abdomen were inflicted first.—Elizabeth Long identified the dead woman as one whom she saw talking in Hamburg-street at halfpast five on the nioruing of the murder to a man whom she would not he able to recognise, and as to whom she conld only say he was dark, rather I tall., over forty years of seee. apparently a foreigner, and shabby eenteel as to his dress. Both were talking loudly, but she only heard the man ask "Will you 7" And the woman replied, "Yes.'—Edward Stanley, ! otherwise known as " The Pensioner," to whom frequent reference has been ' merle as a person who from time to time stayed with deceased at the lodging-house in Dorsetstreet, was then called. He deposed that he sew her, as far as he remembered, on Sunday. the 2nd inst. He was not really in receipt of a pension, and had never belonged to the Sasser Regiment. He was a bricklayer's- labourer by trade.— Donovan, the lodging- house deputy, was recalled, and identified "The Pensioner" as the man who had repeatedly stayed with deceased from Saturday till Monday, an allegation strongly denied by Stanley-Albert Cadoeeo. —A carpenter living at 27, Hamburg-street. esed that on the morning of the murder he was in the back yard,when he heard first a voice in the yard next door, and then a fall against the fence. This he fixed as having taken place at 20 minutes past 5. William Stephens, a youth living at the Dorset-street lodging-honee, said that early on the morning of the murder he saw deceased pick op in the kitchen part of an envelope resembling that found in the yard with the word "Sussex Regiment " upon it —This was all the evidence in the prieeeesion of the police at present, sea the enquiry was again adjourned.