A Belief that He Has Resumed His Bloody Work
London, June 4.
The denizens of Horsleydown, on the southern side of the Thames, were
thrown into a fever of excitement this morning, by the
discovery in the river of the lower portions of a woman's body cut into
pieces. The rest of the body and the legs were no
where to be seen. These ghastly objects were tied in a parcel with a stout
cord. Shortly afterward a parcel of female
clothing was found at Battersea. Both the fragments of the body and the
clothes were wrapped in pieces of cloth, which
together had comprised a pair of woman's drawers. On the waistband of the
drawers was the name "Fisher" in indelible ink. It
is evident that the clothing found belongs to the murdered woman. The
portions of the trunk showed the woman to have been
large and well developed. They had apparently been in the water about ten
days. The discovery has revived the excitement
which prevailed during the period of the Whitechapel horrors, and it is
generally believed that "Jack the Ripper" has resumed
his bloody work.
At Battersea were also found the thighs of a female, showing conclusive evidences of having been cut from the trunk found at Horsleydown. They too were wrapped in pieces if the pair of drawers.
