Stevens Point Daily Journal
Wisconsin, U.S.A.
21 February 1891
IS JACK A WOMAN?
London, Feb. 14.
A shock of hopeless horror has been given the city by the announcement of the murder of
another woman in Whitechapel. When discovered the victim was still alive but insensible,
and her heart soon ceased to beat. The policeman who found her says he had passed the spot
fifteen minutes before on his regular beat and there was nothing there. The body was not
mutilated, only the throat was cut. The woman was lying on her back, one arm by her side
and the other doubled up, her hand clutching her hair, which was disheveled and dabbled
with blood. A woman's crepe hat, not belonging to the victim, was found near. This leads
to the theory that the murderer was a woman, or a man in woman's clothes. The police are
inclined to believe that the murderer was "Jack the Ripper." The absence of mutilation is
accounted for by the probability that he was frightened away by the appearance of
strangers. The policeman who found the murdered woman must have reached the spot while the
murderer was only a few yards away, for the victim's lips were still twitching nervously
and her eyes were still rolling when the officer bent over her.
