WHITECHAPEL MURDERS.
Tho Ninth Victim.
A despatch from London of 9tb Novfciplier says there has been another horrible niqrder in the East End, in a Dorset stir-ct lodging house, where the woman's oody was.found cut into pieces, The heltd was severed and pldcpd beneath ono.arm, the ears and uom were cat off, ami the trunk dis<
embowelled. The Orah was iorn,fron the thighs, aud parts of the body an missing. 'life skin was torn off tin foiehead 1 and cheeks, and one ham had been pushed into her stomach The muidclcd woiqan wa3 raanied and her husband is a porter. Thoj lived together at bp,u,modio intervals Her name is believed to have beei Lizzie tabor, but to most of tin habitues of the haunts she visited sin wai known as Mary Jane. It has been niccrtaincil that she told a companion she was without money, and would commit wiicido it' alio did not obtain a supply. It has nlao been learned that a man accosted her and offered her money, They went to her lodgings, She was. heard to enter her room with apeison who was judged to be a man by the sound of his footsteps between 10 and 11' o'clock on the night of the Bth". No one saw her companion depart, and there was no soimd of a struggle during the night. Shu entered the house ,vith a latchkey, and uo oue saw her companion, who is.supposcd to be the ■ murderer. The victim was found' nektn'iorriing in the condition : described; jy a neighbour, The! rigid, patrol of' the district had been somewhat relaxed owing to .the demand for extra police to keep order during the Lord Mayor's parade.,'':' 7. . ■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3078, 10 December 1888, Page 2
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282WHITECHAPEL MURDERS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3078, 10 December 1888, Page 2
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