MURDERS IN ENGLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1797, 2 October 1888, Page 3

MURDERS IN ENGLAND.

London, Sept. 27. The Whiteohapel coroner has been informed that purchasers are to be found in America for anatomical portions of human bodies such as are missing from the corpses of the persons recently murdered. In consequence of this information the coroner states his be'ief that the murders were committed by some amitomist desirous of obtaining human organs for a medical exhibition in America. Investigations into the Whiteohapel murders still cootione, and it has been ascertained that an American offered the curator of a London hospital the anm of £2O for each anatomical specimen be could procure for him. The applicant stated that his object in endtavocring to secure these spacimens was in order to issue the actual specimen with a copy of a new medical work to be published shortly, and he desired they should be packed in g'ycerine 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 the charge of murder, and he has confessed to having committed the latast crimes. Lonbok, Sept. 28. The man Fitzgerald, who was arrested and confessed to having committed the murder at Eirtley, in Durham, is pronounced insane. Sept. 10. At twenty irinutes past two this morning the body of a woTaan, aged about thirty-five, was discovered murdered, and completely disembowelled, near the junction of Leadenhall and Fenchurch streets, Aldgate. The weman's nose was severed from her face. An hour earlier the body of another woman, with her throat cut, had been discovered in a back yard in Baroer street, but as the body was not mutilated in any way it is not thought the murder is of the same class as those reported lately. In consequence of the discovery of the mutilated body in Leadenhall street, there is great excitement in the city to-day. Up to the preseDt no arrests have been made. Later. It is said that the mutilated body of the murdered woman in the Aldgate district eclipses the horrors in connection with the similar outrages in Whiteohapel road. ———i^—^