Calgary Weekly Herald
Alberta, Canada
3 October 1888
The Whitechapel Murders
London 27
The evidence so far elicited seems to indicate that the Whitechapel murders have been committed in the
interest of the medicos.
No Clue Yet
London, 2.
The police have got no clue to the Whitechapel murders. Several arrests have been made on suspicion,
but there is little hope of any one of them being the man want(ed). The Lord Mayor has offered five
hundred pounds reward for the arrest of the murderers.
More Murders.
London, 1.
This evening the whole city was again startled by the news that two more murders had been added to the
list of mysterious crimes that have recently been committed in Whitechapel. The two victims as in
former cases were dissolute women of the poorest class. The first murder occurred in a narrow court off
Berners street at an early hour this morning, beneath the window of a foreign socialist club. A concert
was in progress and many members of the club were present, but no sound was heard from the victim. The
woman had been seized by the throat and her cries choked while the murderer with one sweeping cut
severed her throat from ear to ear. The other murder was committed three quarters of an hour later in
Mitre square. A policeman patrols the square every ten minutes. The body of the unfortunate woman had
been disembowelled, her throat cut, and her nose severed. The heart and lungs had been thrown aside and
the entrails were twisted into a gaping wound around the neck.
Calgary Daily Herald
Alberta, Canada
3 October 1888
ANOTHER MUTILATED FEMALE BODY IN LONDON
Great Excitement Prevails and the Police are Soundly Denounced - The Limbs cut off.
London, 3:
Some new policemen who have recently been assigned posts of duty on the Thames embankment, found in the
recess of the embankment today the trunk of the body of a female much decomposed. The arms and legs are
missing. The body was wrapped in a lightly bound by a strong cord. It is believed that the
arms found at Pimlico and Lambeth recently belonged to the body. The police have preserved the arms and
head found in the Thames and express hope that they may fit the body, otherwise evidence is established
of two more murders having been committed instead of one. The greatest excitement prevails over the
matter and the police are soundly denounced.
