Widnes Examiner. — 1888-09-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WOMAN MUTILATED. AU tondo was awakened on Saturday mertiingl .to the 'painful and awful fact that another murder:fo'r more diabolical and fiendish than those Viet have preceded it, had been perpetrated on a wornam flf the same 'bless as the poor wretch who was found In Buck's-row on Friday week. The victim in this caeowas discovered about a quarter to six o'clock in the morning lying fa a back yard at the foot of a passage leading bite a lodging-house„ No. 29, Hanbury-street, formerly Bro Wes-lane, Spitalfields. The house is occupied by a Mtn. Emelia Richareson. who lets it out to various t, lodgers; and it seems that the doer which admits into;' this passage, at the foot of which Iles the yard, where the body was found, is always open, for tbe convenience 61 the lodgers. A Mr. and Mrs. Davis occupy the upper storey (The house consisting of Three storeys), and us Mr. Davis was going to work at the time 'mentioned he found a woman lying oft her back, close top to the flight of steps leading Into the yard. Her thror:t was eutepen in a fearful manner—so deep, in fact, that thelnutderer, thinking he lied severed the tread from the body,tied handkerchief round it. so asto keep item. It Voss also found that her abdomen laid been completely 'ripped open, and the bowels, hart, and entrails were lying at 'tier side. Tim arm on which she Was lying was covered with clots of thiak blood, roost horrible to look at. Davis immediately cortimunitereed with the pollee atthe Coneneercial-stesat station, and Inspector Chandler and several constables arrived on the Scene in a.ihort time. • when they fottral the woman in the condition described.; Even at That 'early hem. the ' nos spread ,euickly, and great exeltement pr evailed amoug the occupants of the adjoining houses; and an excited crOwd gathered in front of Mrs. Richardson's house, and 'alslo around the ..mortureiyin'Old"Mentagueestreet, whither the body was quickly removed. As the corpselay in The rough coffin in whieh'it was placed in theatortuary—the same coffin in reihieh 'the -unfortunate 'Mrs. Nicholls was put— it an appearance Which could not but eke pity forthe-srickini and indietation at The brutal murder , ern' eXtretrso degree. Two teeth had been knockedout of thetlewer' jaw, the third-finger of The left hand bore siestrseef iings'baving been wrenched off it; and the hands and-arms were considerably bruised. The exeitoment in the' vicinity was intense, and inntienerible ma:tours were 'flying about. One report had it that's leatheriapron and a long knife had been 'found near ahe place where the body lay, beVineing, it was said, ton man 'Whose name is unknOwsi, but who was nickniaraed-"•Leather Apron" and 'evidently known 'in the 'district. 'There-est be Uttle doriht now'tlatt this latesteraurder is -toe Of The series of-fiendish 'atrocities ore women Which Moe been goint 'on during the past few- months, ' this.miting the fourth case--eaill in the same district. 'Looking 'at the corpse, no one, could thinkbtherwise "tinui that the murder had been :committed bvsn maniac ''-er'sereteb of the lowest type of 'humanity.- Indeed, we 'should have to go to MP wilds of fltingery, or search the records of the French lower peasant :lift, before a. mere sickening andetescoltinc tragedy coulerbe found. A grave responsibility rests with Kite police in the district. -