MYSTERIOUS MURDERS IN ENGLAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 303, 29 September 1888, Page 6

MYSTERIOUS MURDERS IN ENGLAND.

Cable despatches from time to time have reported a series of mysterious murders at Whitechapel, which had caused quite a. panic there. A message winch was lecently published stated that a woman has been found murdered at Biitley, in the County of Durham, whose body was muti lated in the same way as the Whitechapel victims. The police seem to have been utterly unable to obtain a clue to the perpetrator of these mysterious outrages, the first of which is thus described ia papers by tho last San Francisco mail : — About five o'clock on Tuesday morning, August 7th, John Reeves who lives at 37, George-yard buildings, Whitochapol, was coming downstairs to go to work, when he discovered the body of a woman lying in a pool of blood on fche« first floor landing. . Reeves at once called in Constable Barrett (26 H), who was on his boat in the vicinity of George-yard, and Dr. Keeling, of Bricklane, was communicated with and prom ptly arrived. He made an examination of the woman, and pronounced life extinct, giving it as his opinion that she had been brutally murdered, there being knife wounds on her breast, stomach, and abdomen. It is stated that there wore twenty-four wounds in various parts of the body, which was that of, a woman apparently between thirty-five and forty years of age, about five leet three inches in height, complexion and hair dark, wore a dark green skirf, a brown petticoat, a long black jacket, and a black bonnet. The woman is unknown to any of the occupants of the tenements -on the landing on which the deceased was found, and,no disturbance of any kind was heard during the night. The circumstances of the tragedy arethercfore mysterious. The body has been removed to the,, mortuary, and the .case , is in the hands [of'^lnspector Reid, .of, the Criminal, Investigation Department; „ > .'-,-/' , An inquost'was held on Thursday last cm the^bqdy of the woman , 'found dead on Tuesday .morning in George Yard-build-ings, , Whitechapel,' London.,' 1 ;Hor. name ; was stated to be Martha Turner) and ifc f was proved , that no les& than ; thirty-njhe knife vvqunds ,hadj been, inflicted , on deceased; SrT^he, iriquesbwas i adjourned. 1 „,';»'* i-