The British Daily Whig (Canada)
10 September 1888
LONDON POLICE BAFFLED
A SERIES OF SOUR MYSTERIOUS MURDERS
The Latest Victim Discovered in Spitalfiels Early Sunday Morning Shockingly Mutilated
LONDON, Sept. 10--The horribly mutilated body of a woman was found early yesterday morning in a yard attached to a common lodging house in Spitalfields. he troat was cut from ear to ear, the body was ripped open, the bowels and heart were on the ground, and a portion of the entrails were tied around the neck. This is the fourth murder of a similar character that has been cimmitted recently in this vicinity. All the victims were women of the lowest character. The author of the atrocities remains undiscovered, and the excitement in the immediate vicinity borders upon a panic.
