Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-09-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ANOTHER EAST LONDON HORROR.  I  I  I  I I:,  A FOURTH WOMAN MURDERED AND MUTILATED. Another murder of a character even more diabolical than that recently perpetrated in iluck's-row. Whitechapel, was discovered on the Bth inst. in the same neighbourhood. At about six o'clock in the morning a woman was found lying in a back yard at the foot of a passage leading to a lodging-house in Old Brown'slane, Spitalfields. 'rho house is occupied by a Mrs. Emilia Richardson, who lets it out to various lodgers, and it seems that the door which admits into this passage, at the foot of which lies the yard where the body was foun i, is always open for the convenience of the lodgers. A Mr. and Mrs. Davis occupy the upper storey. (the house consisting of three storeys). An Mr. Davis was going down to work at the time mentioned he found a woman lying on her back close to the flight of steps leading into the yard. Her throat was cut openin a fearful manner. So deep, in fact, was the gash, that the murderer, evidently thinking he had severed the head from the body, had tied a handkerchief round it. Upon further examination it was found that the woman's body had been completely ripped open and the heart and other organs placed on the pavement at her side. The fiendish work had been completed by the murderer tying portions of the entrails round his victim's neck. The ground round where the woman lay was covered with clots of thick blood, and the spectacle presented was altogether a sickening one. By those who know the place well it is believed that the woman was murdered in the street arid afterwards carried into the passage. This view ia, to a certain extent, borne out by traces of blood, which reach to the street. There is, more. over, nothing in the appearance of the ground to indicate a struggle. Davis, the man who found the body, at once communicated with the police at Commercial-street Station, and Inspector Chandler and several constables arrived on the scene shortly afterwards, when they found the woman in the condition described. Even at this early hour the news spread quickly, and great excitement prevailed among the occupants of the adjacent houses. An excited crowd gathered in front of Mrs. Richardson's house, and also around the mortuary in Old Montague. street, whither the body was quickly conveyed. As the corpse was lying in the rough coffin in which it was placed in the mortuary—the same coffin in which the unfortunate Mrs. Nicholls was first placed—it presented a fearful sight. The body was that of a woman evidently of about 45 years of age. The height was exactly five feet. The complexion was fair, with wavy dark brown hair; the eyes were blue, and two lower teeth had been knocked out. The nose was rather large and prominent. The third finger of the left hand bore signs of rings having been wrenched off it, and the haunts and arms were considerably bruised. The deceased had on laced. up boots and striped stockings. She had on two cotton petticoats, and was otherwise respectably dressed. Nothing was found in her pockets but a handkerchief and two small combs. It is believed in the neighbourhood to be almost beyond doubt that this murder is but one of a Belies of fiendish atrocities on women M hich have been going on within the past few months, and apparently have been committed by the same hand. Looking at the corpse no one could think otherwise than that the murder bad been committed by a maniac or wretch of the lowest type of humanity; indeed, one would have to go to the wilds of Hungary or search the records of French lower peasant life before a more sickening and revolting tragedy could be told.  AT