Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 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 resumed on Weneslay before Mr Wynne Baxter. the district Comer. Some unimportant evidence having been given by a woman with whom deceased had a quarrel in a public-house, Dr. Phillips, the police surgeon, was recalled, and had hie previously-given testimony read over to him. In answer to a suzges. tion 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 such 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 nse discretion in reporting it. and witness accordingly went on to detail further facts as to the gross and bestial manner in which the body had been mutilated after death. lie cave ! his reasons for believing that the knife used by the murderer was long and extremely sharp, and again expressed the conviction, based on the manner in which the abdomen had been opened ! and the missing portions of the body excised,that the outrage was committed by someone possenied of anatomical knowledge. All the injuries mild not have been inflicted in less than a quarter of an hoer, and would probably take longer. ! The organs removed from the abdomen would not occupy much space, and might easily be concealed. The Coroner observed that the doctor who examined the body of Nichols, the other muraered 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 half. past five on the morning of the murder to a man whom she would not be able to recognise, and as to whom she could only say he was dark. rather tall, over forty years of age, apparently a foreigner, and shabby genteel as to hi, !dress. Both were talking loudly, but she only heard the man Ask "Will you ?" And 11 the women replied, "Yes."—Edward Stanley, otherwise known as " The Pensioner," to whom frequent reference has been , made as a person who from time to time stayed ' with deceased at the lodging-house in Dorset. street, 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 Sussex Regiment. He was • bricklayer's labourer by trade.— llonovan, the lodging-house deunty, was recalled, and identified " The Pensioner" as the man who had repeatedly stayed with ! deceased from Saturday till Monday, an tion strongly denied by Btanley-Albert Carlene°. —A carpenter living at 27. Hamburg-street. said ! that on the morning of the murder he was in the back yard,when be heard first a voice in the yard , next door, and then a fall against , the fence. This he fixed as having taken rime at 20 minutes pant 5. William Stephens, a youth living at the Dorset-street lodging-house, said that early on the morning of the murder he saw deceased pick up 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 possession of the police at present, and the enquiry was again adjourned.