The Herald of Wales. — 1887-08-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HISTORY OE THE CRIME.  The facta of the case briefly stated are these, and point conclusively to the guilt of Lipski. The murdered woman and her husband wonpied a room on the first floor of a house in Batty Street, Whitechapel, where Lipski had • garret. On the 28th of June, the mother-inlaw of the victim, who resided in a neighbouring Itenement was expecting her to breakfast. Unable to amount for her daughter-in-law's nonarrival she went round about 11 o'clock and knocked at the door of her room. As she could get no answer and the key was inside the door, she contrived to look in through a neighbour's and saw Miriam Angell lying apparently in a fainting fit. The door was the , forced, and the woman found lying on the bed dead, her month showing marks of severe burning from acid. A doctor and his assistant were sent for, and while the assistant was searching for a bottle in the bed, he I touched a man's hand, and on removing the bed Lipski was discovered lying on the floor up against the wall underneath a pillow. When brought out he was ?artially conscious, but after looking at the woman fell down insensible. A medical examination showed that the woman had been dead about three hours, and that her death had been caused by nitric acid, which, poured down her throat while unconscious, had penetrated to the lungs, causing auffigiation, while marks of violence sufficient to have pro(heed unconsciousness were visible on her temple. Lipski, when found, was lying in his shirt sleeves, with the inside of his mouth burned by ' the same acid, with a tew scratches, though not sufficient to account for his condition, on his forehead, while the skin on both his elbows was badly abridged. His ooat which was lying under the bed covered by a coat belonging to the woman's husband, was also very much burned. In addition to these facts, the manager to an oil and colour man gave evidence at the trial that a man he believed to be the prisoner came to his shop about nine o'clock on the day of the murder, and purchased a pennyworth of nitric acid, which was put into a bottle for the customer, and that when asked what he wanted it tor, he (she customer) said it was to polish sticks with, Lipaki being a stick maker by trade. Lipski had also been up early on the morning of the murder, and had actually left workmen to whom he hsd promised employment, waiting for him in the garret where he worked. According to Lipski's tale he had just engaged two compatriots, Rosenbloom and Schmusch, to work for him in the business of a stickmaker. On the morning of the 28th he gave the former a sovereign to get some brandy with, and than went out to mike some trade purchases. When he returned he found them both standing in the doorway of the Angell's room on his coming upstairs. One of them, Schmusch, who is a big man, the prisoner being slightly built, instantly seized him. They then poured some acid into his menth, saying, "There's your brandy," or words to that effect. They then asked him where his watch was and whether he had any money, and on his replying that his watch was at the pawnbroker's and that he had given his only sovereign to Romenbloom for the brandy, they said, "If you don't give it us you will be as dead as the woman." They then, he alleged, threw him down, dragged off his coat and rifled if, and having knocked him about and knelt on his ct.est until he was nearly insensible, threw him under the bed and left him for dead. The two men, Rosenbloom and ficamnach, were ooth examined at the trial, and declared Lipski's story was a pure fabrication, and now Lipeki's own confession, as given above, explains everything.