Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-09-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ANOTHER APPALLING MURDER IN LONDON.  A DIABOLICAL DEED.  It  1'  1  .s  London was awakened laid Saturday morning to the awful feet that soother murder, for more diabolical and fiendish, bad been perpetrated on another woman of the same ellball 9A the poor wretch found in Book's-row, Whiteckapet, a week ago. The victim in the present ease was discovered last Saturday morning lying in • back yard at the foot of a passage leading into lodgrnghouse No. 29, ITanbury-street, formerly Old Brown's-lane, Spitel6elds. The 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 fonnd, is always open for the convenience of t6e lodgers. AMr and Mrs Davis occupy the upper story, the house consisting of three stories, and as Mr Davis was going down to work he found a woman lying on her back close up to the flight of steps leading into the yard. Her throat was cot open in a fearful manner, almost severing the  head from the body. It was also found that her body had been fearfully mutilated. The ple.ce on which she was lying was found covered with clots of thick blood, most horrible to look at There was no signs of any struggle having taken place in the vicinity. Davis. the lodger, who foetid the body, immediately communicated with the police at the Commercial-street statiou, and Inspector Chandler and several constables appeared on the scene in a short time. The news spread qutekly, and great excitement prevailed among the occupants of the adjoining houses, and an excited crowd gathered in front of Mrs Richardson's house, and also around the mortuary in Old Montague-street Where the body was quickly removed. youne woman named Lyons, of the class commonly knowu as "unfortunates," made a statement to the police on Sunday night to the ufftet that at three o'clock that afternoon she met a strange man in Flower and Denn•htreet, one of the worst streets in the Feat End of London. He asked her to go to the Queen's Head public house at half-paet six and drink with bin'. Having obtained from the young woman a promise that she would do so he disappeared. but was at the house at the appointed time. While they were conversing Lyons noticed a large knife in the man's right hand trousers pocket, and called another woman's attention to the fact. A moment later Lyons was startled by the remark which the stranger addressed to her: "You are about the some style of woman as the one that's murdered," he said. "'What do you know about her ?" asked the woman, to which the man replied, "You are beginning to smell a rat. Foxee aunt geese, but they don't aleoys find 'em." Having uttered these words'the man hurriedly left. Lyons followed until near SpitalEelds Church, and turning round at this spot and noticing that the women was behind him the stranger ran at a swift pave into Chnrch-street, aud was at once lost to view. One noteworthy fact in this story is that the description of the man's appearance is in all material points identical with the published description of the unknown and, up to the present, undiscovered "Leather apron; Over two hinalre I common lodging-houses have been visited by tl.e po!ice in the hopes of finding some trace of this mysterious and much talked-of person. but he hen succeeded in evading arrest. The police have reason for saspecting that he is eniployed in one of the Londoe sweating dens as a slipper maker, and that, as it is usual to supply food and lodging in many of those houses, he is virtually in hiding. He is weleknown to many policemen in the Whiteehapel dietrict, and as he has kept himself ce:t of the way eince, this is regarded as a significant circumstance.