The Herald of Wales. — 1888-10-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WORK ON SATURDAY NIGHT. . On Saturday night, the murderer appears to have inveigled a gay woman, named Annie Morris, into a close in Berner-etreet, Whitechapel, not far from the scene of the murder perpetrated by Lipaki' the Pole, and contiguous to a Socialists' club, mainly supported by foreigners. Berner-street ie a quiet thoroughfare runntng.4pla ommereial-road down to the London, Til6Tay, and Southend Railway. At the entrance to the court where the murder was committed, are a pair of large wooden tratea, In one of which le a emelt wicket for use when the gate are doted. At the bone when the murderer accomplished his impose, these gates were open—indeed, according to the testimony of those living near, the entrance to the court is seldom closed. For a distance of It or 20 feet f.om the street there is a dead wall on each side of the court, the efeet of which is to enshroud the intervening apace in absolute darkness after sweet. In thin place the unfortunate woman, Morris, had her throat cut from ear to ear, without • human eye, save that of the murderer, seeing her in the agonies of a erual death. To illustrate how speedily the crime must have been committed a Mrs Mortimer, 1. ring at 34, Berner-street, four aeone from the tal:OLIO cf the tragedy, nays:—" I wasetanding at the door of my house nearly ti's whole time between half-past twelve and ono o'oleek on flanday morning, awl I did net notice anything, iniueual. I had jinq gone indo,tra and was preparing to go to bed, who. I heard a commotion outside, and I inimeniately ran out, thinking that there wet another row at the Socialinta' Club, dose by. I went to see whet was the matter, and wee informed that another dreadful murder had been committed in the yard adjoining the elab-house, end ea going Inside I saw the body of a woman lyeng brindled up just inside the gates with her threat cut from ear to ear. A MIR touched her foe, and said it was quite warm. -so that the deed must have been done while I was standing at the door of my house. There wax certainly no Koine made, and I did not ()beery.) any one enter the gatoe. it wee just after one o'clock when I went *et, and the only men whom I had seen pees through the street previously wee a young man carrying a black shiny beg, who walked very bust down the street from the Cotemercialereud. He looked up at the club, and then went round the sorrier by the board eehool. I wee laid that the manager or steward of the club bad diesevered the woman on his return home in his pony cart. He drove through the g.-s, and my opinion is that he interroptal the murderer, who must have matte his escape Immediately, ander cover of the cart- It a men had come out of the yard befwe one o'clock, I must have peen him. It wee Almost ineredible to me that the thing could have been done without the steward's wife heac ing a _ . . . . _  noise, for she was sitting in the kitchen, finm which a window opens four yards from the spot where the woman was found. The body was lying slightly on one aide, with the kegs a little drawn up, as if in pain. The &eters declare that the knife used must have been liege and keen."