Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-10-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THREATS OF MORE MURDERS.  LONDON, Friday evening. The evidence given by the surgeon at the in. quest on the body of the litre-square victim has caused a profound sensation in London. It had been understood that in this case the murderer was so closely pressed Jo: time that he bad to content himself with putting his victim to death, and then roughly mutilating the comae; but the surgical evidence leaves no doubt that, notwithstanding the imminent danger of every moment's delay, the murderer went about his fiendish, work with at least as much reckless deliberation as he displayed in dealing with his Hanbury-street victim, for he removed two organs, and then backed the face of the dead woman—not in blind fury, as had been supposed, : but with the apparent object of increasing the difficulty of identification. Much importance is attached to this point. The murderer too's no pains to mutilate the features of his previous victims, although in most cases he had time to do it. It is, therefore, believed that he met the woman Conway in the main thoroughfare some distance from Mitre-square. He would then have to walk along a well-lightcd road in her company. where a good many people were about, and that, consequently, he had some reason for supposing that he might have been noticed by policemen or passers by. It was, therefore, good policy on his part to endeavour so to mutilate the woman's face as to render it impossible for any person to recognise it as that of the woman in whose company he was probably seen. Another piece of evidence, which may prove of importance, vas confirmed at the inquest yesterday—usmely. that the murderer cut off a portion of one of the dead woman's ears. It will be remembered that in the letter addressed to the Central News by "Jack the Ripper," and purporting to come from the murderer, he expressed his intention of cutting off his next victim's ears and sending them by post to the police. It is just possible that the murderer did intend to secure the ear, but that when it became lost in the victim's clothing his attention was called to souse other object, and that before ha could recall his purpose be *bad to fly for his life. As far as can be ascertained, too, the sisecal edition of the Sunday newspapers containing an account of the  crime Made im'mentiGn of the cutting off of the ear, but in the post-card received by the Central News with the brat delivery on Monday morning the writer stated he hail not time to secure the ears for the police. The post.card was @friar e n.tli posted come time after midnight. and kr  _eetly certainly long before the writer could Gee) seen the Monday morning newspapers. These considerations operated with the authorities in their decision to publish the mysterious coin; men:cations in far ssniil. The announcement made by Dr. Brown that the uterus was missing from the body of the Mitre. square victim revive 3 temporarily the theory put forward by the Coroner who held the inquest on the woman Chapman; .brit this theory is authoritatively disposed of by the Bvitish 3fedical.lotencl, which states that it is tree enquiries were made at one or two Medical 'schools early last year by s foreign physician, ; who was spending some time in London, as to the poseibility of securing certain parts of the ; body for the purpose of scientific I investigation. "But," continues the British I 3frdi,:al Journal, "no large sum was offered. The person in question was a physician of the highest respectability and exceedingly well accredited to this country by the host authorities in his own, and be loft London fully eighteen months aeo. There WS3 never any real foundation for the hypothesis, and the information communicated, which was not at all IDE the nature which the public has been led to believe. was duo to the erroueous interpretation by a minor official of a question which he had . overheard, and to which a negative reply was given. This theory may be at once dismiesed, and is, we believe, no longer entertained even by its author."