Widnes Examiner. — 1888-09-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ANOTHER WOMAN MURDERED AND MUTILATED.-BRUTAL AND MYSTERIOUS MURDER.  A woman, named Jane Beatmoor. 28 years of are, was the victim of a horrible murder at Birtl7, near Gateshead, on Saturday night or Sunday &ming. It appears that the deceased, who was in delicate health, had been at the Gateshead Dispensary on \Saturday for medicine, and on returning home went out to purchase some sweets with which to take her medicine. She called at several farms while she was out, and at half-past seven at night left the house of an acquaintance, named Mrs. Newell, evidently with the intention of returning hoine. She had not arrived at 11 o'clock, and her mother and stepfather went to look for her, hilt without suceess, and concluded that she must have spent the night with some neighbours. Early in the morning a miher, named John Fish, going to work, found the body of the deceased at the bottom of a railway embankment in a horribly mutilated condition. The county police were comnv,nicated with, and Sergeant Harrison awl Sergeant Hutchinson, of Birtley, were soon on the spot. The body was conveyed to Birtley and a doctor sent for. The doctor expressed the opinion that the body had been mutilated with a knife. The affair has caused quite a panic in the district  The greatest excitement continues to prevail in Birtley and the surrounding district concerning the terrible outrage on Jane Beatmoor, which was enacted there on Saturday evening. The local police cast their suspicions upon a man named William Weddell, an ironworker at Birtley, whe for some time past has been endeavouring to force his attentions upon the deceased. He has absconded, and the police have been furnished with his description. He is about sft. 9in. in height, with a sallow complexion, high cheek bones, and generally sharp features. He has a slouching, stooping gait, and a furtive expression. The inquest wasopeued on Monday morning and adjeurned for a fortnight. The injairies sustained by the deceased are shocking. On the right side of the face there is a deep cut about an inch wide, whloh has hid the lower jaw open to the bone. On the left side of the neck below the ear there is a gash about two inches in length ad extending right down to the tep of the spine. This wound alone, in the opinion of the medical men would have mused instant death. The third ind most severe of the cuts received. by the poor woman is in the abdomen, from the wound in which the entrails protruded. It is aPsumod,that the unfortunate woman was killed by the blow on her neck, and that subsequently her murderer endeavoured to hack the body to pieces. Dr. Phillips, who made the post-mortem examination of the victim of the last Whitecha,pek murder, has been sent to Durham, with a view to ascertaimine whether the I injuries inflicted on her resemble those inflicted on the Whitechanel With reference to the murder and mutilation near Gateshead, Dr. Phillips, divisional police surgeon, states that it is evidently not done by the same hand as the Whitechapel murder, that at Gateshead being simply a clumsy piece of butchery. The young woman was buried on Wednesday, at Birtley, in presence of an enormous crowd.