TWO WOMEN MURDERED ON SUNDAY. THE SAME FEARFUL MUTILATION. (From the "Pall Mall, Budget," October 4th.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 317, 17 November 1888, Page 6

TWO WOMEN MURDERED ON SUNDAY. THE SAME FEARFUL MUTILATION. (From the "Pall Mall, Budget," October 4th. )

In tho early hours of Sunday morning two more horrible murders were committed in tHe E/i.Vc-end of London, Lhc victim in both cases belonging to Che same, unfortunate" clu&s. • No doubt fieoms to Uo entertained by tti"e police that these teruble ui'imes wuc tie work 01 the same .fiendish hands which committed the outrages which lind abeady anade Whitcchapel &o painfully notorious. , The scenes ofihe two murders ju§t brought/ to light aie within a quarter of an hour's walk ot each other, the eailier dibcoveicd crime having , been committed in , a yard in Borner-strceb, a thoiuugh,faro out of the Commercial Roa.i, while the second outiage was poi petrated within the Ci6y boundary, in Miti c-squarc-, AJdgatc. In neither case can 10'ubery have been the motive, nor can the deed bo set down as the outcome of any oidiuiu'y sheet brawl. ( Both have unquestionably been muiderfe delibpiately planned,, and eanicd out by tho, hand ot bonno one who has been no novice to the work : and again it mu&t bo added that no reliable clue has. yet l>een obtained. , <

THEY BERNER STREET MURDER. Berner-htreet is a narrow, badly-lighted, bub tolerably respectable stioot, turning out of the Commercial- road, a short distance down on* the right-hand side going from Aldgate. It is a street mainly consisting of small houses, but which ha& lately been brightened and embellished by one *of the line new building's of the London School Board. Just opposite thi.->' *ib an "International and Educational Club," domiciled in a private house &banding at the corner of a gateway leading' into a- yaid in which are small manufacturing premises and fqur .small houses • occupied by Jewish families. The yard gates are usually clo.sed ,ab \ night, ' a wicket atidrdin.fi: admission to the lodgers and others residing in the house?. The club was on Saturday evening winding up the Jewish holidays hy -a lecture on " Judaism and Socialism.' A .discussion followed, which canied on iho proceedings to about halt-past twei\ c, and then followed 'a general jollification accompanied, as the neighbours say, b\ a noise that would elVectually have proven led any ories , for help being heard by (.hose aiound. The mirth however was brought to a sudden and a dreadful stop. The steward oi the club, who lives in one of the small houses in the yard, and had been out with some sort of a market carf, returned home ju&t ( before one (Sunday morning), lie tinned into tbo gateway, when he 'observed some object lying •in his' •way under the wall of blic 'club. ■ Unable to see cleaily .who it was, he struck a match and iound that it , wag a won^aii^ f He- bbpu^hl at Hi-&t sLe was 'drunk'j and'weKt, into the, club Some of the members we'iVb 6ub with him and btruck another light, and were horrified to find the 'woman's, head nearly severed horn he,r body and blood- fctreanung down-the gutter. The police wero summoned, and the pcor creature was borne to the St. George's deadhouse.

IDENTIFICATION pF THE VICTIM. The corpse*. was wtill waim, and in the opinion- ot bhe medical expeits, who were promptly summoned, to the place, the deed of Wood must lmvo been done nob many minutes before. The probability beems to be that the nnmlerei was inteirupied by ,tho arrival ol the eait, and that he made his escape unobserved, under the shelter of the darkness, which was almost total at, the spotv The efforts of , the police to trace the murderer have been without . result as yet. The body has been identified as that of a woman named Elizabeth Stride, who had been living in a common lodging-hou.'-e in Flower i and Dean-street, and had been in the habit" of frequenting this neighbourhood, where it appears she was familiat ly known as Long Lizzie. She ha& a t-ibter living somewhere in Holborn, and her husband, horn whom she has been s-dparaied some years, is said to be liwng ai Bath. The body when found was quite w^rm. In one ha,n.d was clutched tx box ot sweetb, and at >he.r breast wore pinned two dahlias ; she was respectably dressed for her class, and appears to be about thirty-live yearn ot age. Her height is sft sm, and her complexion and hair are dark. >She woie a jacket made of daik diagonal clofb, feather tiimmings, a blacK skill., velveteen bodice, onape bonnet, side - MJi'in<.> boots, and v. bite stockings. Medical men were busy in minutely examining the body and on Tuesday morning about eleven Mr Wynne E Baxter oponed an inquest. The woman's movements have been braced up to a certain point. She left her lodgings in Flower and Dean -street between six and seven o'clock | on Saturday evening, saying that she was notgoing to meotanyonein particular From that hour theie is nothing, uerlairtiy knowr about her up to the time ax> which her bodj was found, lifeless indeed, but nototheiwise mutilated than by the ga^h 'in the throat, which had severed the jugular vein and must .have caused instantaneous death.

THE MITRE SQUARE MURDER. At the precise moment, that the police •Were gathering about the place of slaughter in Herner-street, another and more honible shamblos was 'being provided lor their inspection scarcely half a mile away. Shortly b'eiore twoo'clock J'olico-Constable Wabkins (No. 881), of the City Police, \Vas going lound his beat, when, turning his lantern' upon the darkest corner of Mitre-bquare, Aid gate, he saw the body of a woman, ap'pareiitly lifeless, in a'pool of blood. He at once blew' his whistle, and several persons being attracted to the spot, he despatched messengers for medical and polic e aid. Inspector Collard, wiio was in command attihe lime' at Bishbpsgate^ police-station, but a short distance off, quiculy arrived, follovved a few moments' after by Mr (^. ,W. Sequeira, surgeon, df 35, Jewry-street, and Dr. 1 Gordon 1 Browb I , ' the' divisional police doctor of' Finsbury-circus. 1 ' Chief Superintendent Major Smith, Superintendent Foster, Inppector McWilliams,"and Inspecfor Collavd immediately organized a 'scouting' briga&e, to detect and arrest any suspicious looking character,' but no one was takbn into cu&tody. " ' •

A SHOPKING ,SIGHT. , In tho meantime, Dr. Sequeira'and Dr.' Gordon Brown made a'rt 'examination of tho body. The sight was- a moat, shocking one. The woman '3 'thrbafc 'Had' been ,cut !! froni the Jeftside, the knife' severing the main artery and other parts of the neck. 'Blood ! h'ad iiowed'ireely,' boFhfrbm the heck and body, oh 'Che -pavement.' 1 vl Ap'parently, tho weapon had been thrust into the upper'parlj 'of the abdomen' l and ' 'drawn cbmplbtely do\v;n, jipping- open the body, andf'hradditiori, both thighs jiad < beem ' cut across. The

intdgftqeg fidf Been §b&| froftfijHg Bpd| .and^Wo.cippem' tb(|ge(| in tHte |v|ujnsl oji fche^ightli&MoAlfe^eck. was lytng on her back, with her head bo blie syufch-wesb corner,, and her feet towards the carriage way, her clothes bein# thtown up ontq her^cheslr.>*» Both Jiands %v;er(3/outc*by^hei i! '' I Biclef i '" Near 4i wliefe s ehe was lying two or three buttons were picked up, and "a small cardboard box containing two pawntickets. ; The ;suppo3ition', >: is^that her pockets were liastily turned oat, either for robbery, or to Wade' suspicion as to t'iße motive fot 'the crime. Dr. ■ BroWn 'havin« taken a pencil sketch of the exact position in which the body was found, at three o'clock it> wah removed to the City Mortuary, Gold en -lane, 10 await a 1 coroner's inquest.

THE VICTIM IDENTIFIED. On Tuesday night, between nine and ten o'clock, a labouring man, giving' the name oi John Kelly, 55, Flowct aad Dean-street — a common lodging-house — entered the Bishopsgate - street police - station, and stated thai, ho believed that the* worn an who hau been murdered in Mitre-square i\aa his " wife." He was taken to the mortuary in (i olden-lane, and there identified her as 1 the wotnan, to whom he subsequently admitten he was not married, but with whom , lie had cohabited ior seven years. Kelly, who, was considerably affected, spoke- rjiiibe imtcservedly, and gave a full statement as to h'h qwnjnoNCinents and those of the illfated woman, as to whose identity he was quite positive. In this statement he was borne out by , the deputy ol I tie lodginghouf.o, Jb'iederick Wilson, who knew the poos- woman quite well, and who had just faoen the body. Kelly, in answer to questions, stated that the last time hn saw her — refening to her as Kate — was on Saturday afternoon. -The last meal she had with him was a breakfast which had been obtained by the pledging of his boots tor 2s 6d. He '' was then askoclif he knew the rnuidered woman's name, aid it he could explain the meaning of the initials "T.G." on her arm. Hu replied that Thomas Con way "was the name of her husband, but he could not state whether Conway was dead or alive, or how long, in the latter case, &he had been living away from him. ,He further stated that ho and the murdered woman were " both Londonei..-," and that the LttLer was bprn at Bernjond&ey. They had just returned iroin hopping a! a place about two inile3 from CcxJio Uh, m juent. Jle and "Kate " had, he h.tui, gone through many hardships toucther, but while she was with him he '• would not let her do 'anything bad." He wd& abked if he knew whether the woman had any reLitivus besides the daughter mentioned, to w hich he i eplicd that "Kate's" sister was > living^in^Thrawlstreet, tfpitalheUls, with a man who sold tai thing books in Liverpool-street.

SLIGHT CLUES. The police have made one discovery, winch they aiooi opinion affords a clue to the direction in which the irmrdeier made his escape., On Monday afternoon a portion of an apron was found ia Goldstein-street, *H>d \,hu:i the body of the woman found in Mine .squaicwus&earched, ifc was discovered that she was wearing the upper portion of the apron to which the piece found belonged. 16 is f.heiefore concluded that the muideier made his way into Whitcchapel. Again : Early tins morning a police-con-> Stable wap passing on hi& beat in the White-cliapol-road, when he came upon a blackhandled knife, keen .ss a razor, and pointed like li carving-knife. The blade was ten inches long, about the length of weapon assumed" by Or, Phillips to have been usci by the Hanbury-strect murderer.

"INQUEST OJN THE BERNER-STREET I . ' VICTIM. The inquest on the boJy of Elizabeth Stride— otherwise "Long Liz"— who was found foully murdered, with her throat cut, in Borner-strcet, was tixed to commence at t.ho Vestry Hall, Cable-street, St. George'sin tho-East, at eleven o'clock on Monday. Mi Wynne E. Baxter directed fchc inquiry. Nothing of importance has, however, been elicited.