The Whitechapel Murders.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 49, 2 October 1888, Page 3

The Whitechapel Murders.

The cablegrams published in the Australian papers throw a little more light on the mysterious Whitechapel murders which have created such a sensation in London. It appears that the whole of the four victims were women, hence the reason why, as wab stated in the cablegrams, women were arming themselves for self-protection. The first of these murders appears t<> have been committed as far back as the 7th August. On that date a woman was found dead in George Yard buildings, Whitechapel, with thirty-nine stabs in her body. An inquest was commenced on the 10th August, but on that date the body had not been identified, three women who had seen it identifying it under three different names. The Coroner, in adjourning the inquest for a fortnight, said it was one of the most dreadful murders anyone could imagine. The man must have been a perfect savage to inflict such a number of wounds on a defenceless woman in such a way. The nature of the wounds may be gathered from the evidence of Dr Millen, who said there were tbhty-mne stabs on the body. The woman was about thirtysix years of age, and the body was well nourished. He had made a post mortem examination, and found that the left lung was penetrated in five places and the right lung in two places. The heart, which was rather fatty, was penetrated in one place, and that would be sufficient to cause death. The liver was healthy, but was penetrated in five places ; the spleen was penetrated in two places ; and the stomach which was perfectly healthy, was penetrated in six places. The witness did not think all the wounds were inflicted with the same instrument. The wounds generally might have been inflicted by a knife, but such an instrument could not have inflicted one of the wounds, which went through the chest tone. His opinion was that the wounds were inflicted by some kind of dagger, and that all of them were caused during life.