Another Abandoned Woman Murdered and Horribly Mutilated in London Slums
London, Nov. 9.
The body of a woman has been found murdered and mutilated in a house in Dorset street, near Hanbury street. The murder was committed in the woman's own room, and the body was cut up in a horrible manner. This is undoubtedly a repetition of the series of woman murders in Whitechapel. Bloodhounds have been brought to the spot and are working on the trail of the murderer. The victim was like the rest of the Whitechapel victims - an abandoned woman. She had a husband who was a porter but she lived with him only at times. Her name is believed to be Lizzie Fisher. As she entered the house where she lodged by means of a latchkey probably no one saw the man who accompanied her, hence it is doubtful if the murderer will ever be identified. A man might easily have left the house at any time between the hours of one and six without attracting any special attention. Physicians who viewed the corpse reserve their statements for the inquest which will follow. Three bloodhounds, which are owned by private citizens, have been placed on the scent, but they are useless. The appearance of the remains is frightful, and the mutilation even greater then the previous cases. The head was severed from the body and placed between one of the arms. The ears and the nose were cut off, the body disemboweled, and the flesh torn from the thighs. The womb and other organs are missing. The forehead and cheeks are completely skinned, and one hand pushed into the stomach.
The murdered woman told a companion last evening that she was without money and would commit suicide if she did not obtain a supply. It has been learned that a man respectably dressed accosted the victim and offered her money. They went to her lodgings, on the second floor of the Dorset street house. No noise was heard through the night, and nothing was known of the murder until the landlady went to the room early this morning to ask for her rent. The first thing she saw on entering the room was the woman's breasts amd viscera lying on a table. Dorset street is short and narrow and is cituated close to Mitre square and Hanbury street.
