The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-08-15 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE IN THE  EAST END OF LONDON.  An alleged attempt to murder an old woman, 70 years of age, was committed about one o'clock in the morning in Dellowlitreet,. Whiteehapel, situated within a few minutes' wall of the soenes of the Jack the Ripper murders. The victim of the outrage is Mrs. Catherine Gertrude Wolfe, a German woman, who so far as inquiries show had no quarrel with any one, but lived a quiet and retired life, residing at 25, Cannon-street-road, with her son and danghter-in-law, her son being an agent of the Prudential Life Insurance Company. The old woman had reoently been very ill, and towards midnight of Thursday left her bed in order to seek some benefit by • few minutes' walk in the street in which she lived. From what she is reported to have afterwards stated it would apyear that at a place immediately opposite the Dellow-street Schools a man suddenly rushed at her, flourishing a large knife or razor, and, without uttering • word, made • to delibera attempt to take her life. As he approach her she savc the flash of the knife, and threw her arm ta-protect herself. The knife struck liar left wrist and inflicted a wound which atusiA giem pain. She called out for help, but at the tfine'the street was deserted. The would-be murderer thin made& slash at her throat, causing a wound which, it is believed, will result in &tel. The man made good his escape. Tlie old woman wandered about the streets in a dazed condition, and was found a to licemen and another man on a doorstep opposite e schools. She was taken the London Hospital , where, after her wounds had been dressed, she was able, through the medium of an interpreter—whose services were necessary, as Mrs. Woolfe does not speak English fluently—to give the above account of herself. Afterwards she mid no quarrel or any altercation took pions between her and the man, who was stout, tall, dark, and about 30 years of age, dressed hi dark elothes. He wore a ahtuoh bat, which pally ooncealed his features, and preitented her from seeing much of his fees. She now lies In • critical oondition, and there Is little hope -Of her recovery. The old woman's lift was insured for £3O. A razor was afterwards found in the next street covered with blood. The police venture the theory that the injured - Woman attempted to commit suicide, but her'madkial attendente exwisely ay that the wounds are such as could not have b--en imelf4nflioted4 '  The influenza epidisnio has reap'peared in Moscow, and as many as 500 persons daily have been attacked by the malady. Aboutrtwo 'o'clock on flundiii mamba/ two men knocked at the deck' hrtlie King's 'Heed hotel, Tetrad, Rhondda, and asked for brandy for a woman who, they said, was seriously fiL Before their request could be with, however, they threw. quantity of liqnnlintfro the landlord's facie, which rendered him unconscious. The men then proceeded to the various bed-rooms in the house, and served all the inmates in a similar meaner. The whole building was ransacked and several valuables stolen, the men making their escape. 'Though the Labour Commission in he corporate capacity takes holiday until the end of October, individual members will be hard at work for most of that time. Though the Commission has now sat for siz weeks, and taken a oonsiderable mass of evidence, it is still no more thrp on the threshold of the inquiry, sad oonaiderl. doubts are expreeled whether it wM be able to reach the end before the close of next summer. Mr. Tbsiothy Healy has now at a public meeting &ad to Lord fißenoer for having,oalled him ' the ke of Sodom and Gomorrah.' Mr. Healy adda that he applied the objectionable description "tinder an erroneous impression." Sir Richard Webster figured in a cricket match at Crealeigh —not, however, with much prominence. Her Majesty's Attorney- General scored , one in the first innings and five in the second.