THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS.
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London. S' r'emW 2? [ The Whitecbap/. Coroner has be t> i informed that purchaseis are found i«J America for the anatomical p-rtions of human bodies such as are missing from the corpses of persons recently murdered. In consequence of this m formation the Coroner states his belief that the murders were committed by some anatorast desirous of obtaining human organs for a medical exhibition m America. The investigation of the Whitcchape! murders still continues, and it has been ascertained that an American offered the curator of a London hospital the sum of for each specimen of a uterus he could procure for him. The applicant stated his object m endeavoring to secure these specimens was m order to issue an actual specimen with the copy of a new medical work to be published shortly, and he desired they should be immersed m glycerine to preserve them. The curator refused to entertain the proposal. Acting on the information of the coroner, the police arrested a man named Fitzgerald on a charge of murder, and he has confessed to having committed the latest crime.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 29 September 1888, Page 3
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188THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 29 September 1888, Page 3
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