The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-10-31 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GERMAN "JACK THE RIPPER." A woman named •Hedwig Nitsche,, belonging to the class of "unfortunates,' was found murdered about 1 o'clock on Sunday morning in her room in Berlin, the murderer, it is supposed, being. an unknown man, who was in her company in, the evening. The body, after the woman had been murdered, was mutilated in a manner suggesting the methods of "Jack the Ripper." The male. " friend " of the victim, who was the first to discover the body t exposed this to public view in the 1 room in which it was found, making a small obsrge for the ghastly spectacle, until his was stopped by the police. The deceased was but little more than 21 years of age. In the small hours of the morning a neighbour, who wished to communicate with Nitsolie,:4 knocked at her door, and receiving no reply after repeated calls, gained an entrance. She had hardly get inside the room when she fled shriekingfrom it, rousing all the people in the adjoining houses. On the bed in the little room Jsg..what was barely recognisable as the body, of the unArtnnate Nitsche, who had been zuurdered silently _and quickly through the cutting of her throat.. A 'horrid giudi, made evidently with a keen knife wielded with extraordinary strength and precision, ,had nearly severed the bead from the body. Resides this, the corpse was mutilated. The AMhy parts of the body bad, been carved away, apparently with much cool deliberation. The whole room seemed dyed with blood, and the murderer must have taken a maniacal delight in scattering, about the revolting trophies of his savagery. The Money and jewellery belonging to the victim was untouched. Another ghastly incident which puts the Murder in the same category with the Whitechapel horrors is the fact that the assassin had removed and apparently carried away with him some of the Internet organs. None of the clothes had been removed from the body, even the gloves being still on the victim's hands. A pair of bloodstained miffs, supposed to belong to the murderer, were ottiund in the room. The man against whom the police entertain strong suspicions wits seen accost. lag several women earlier in the evening. The police have arrested a man who en examined continually contradicted hhnseif, could not prove a sufficient alibi. The prisoner is a clerk in a merchant's office, but it is doubted whether he is the right man, as it is believed that the murderer could not have committed the deed in the manner he did without a knowledge of anatomy, and this a clerk waS not likely to The house in which the murder was cothnEtieldesis in the lowest district of Berlin. A reward or £llt has been offered by the police for the apprehension ot the murderer. ;. fie  beinf i  'l, la "  Dad On "amok  of four larp I).` '  atlr few. _ and since that period it has been Ai by • board of governors, amiss ; of Mr. Whitbread, M.P. for the inoludiny Amour KG, ' :seikins  roe the ad'  .Insorne ....1460, and an &dyer.— • —Sir  aohnnal ' 'Undo"  Pm new Glit=ebzipists beitereolled rs, knew _SAO the It Is one -esboolk earnest. • They Ted and Orb o a ay. be recent vistas in th, ~.,ihote Mamma, approach' to victory "bl" 1.00 v. , slielieved bed lola 1.3 Gov.rnmfaco.,4ldl rag to in.Coneervatives.' 'The uwitifo 0 aelt- ' whom. 1 minist- :roil; elk" wmen' ' will?* ted, and w nialeardd NO mansbip • borough, ank on Idacetion. Fee Cowper of! Ber' Ida