Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1888 — A MYSTERIOUS FIEND. [ARTICLE]

A MYSTERIOUS FIEND.

REPETITION OF THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS IN LONDON! A Dissolute Woman Again the Victim Horribly Mutilated A Missouri Crime Almost Forgotten Which Rivals It iu Atrociousness. . [London cablegram J The Whitechapel murder fiend has added another to his list of victims. The body of a woman cut into pieces was discovered in a house on Dorset street, Spitalfields. The remains were mutilated in the same horrible manner as were those of the women murdered in Whitechapel. The appearance of the remains was frightful, and the mutilation was even greater than in the previous cases. The head had been severed and placed beneath one of the arms. The ears and nose had been cut off. The body had been disemboweled and the liesh was torn from the thighs. The skin had been torn off the forehead and cheeks. One hand had been pushed into the stomach. The victim, like all the others, was a disreputable woman. She was married, and her husband was a porter. They had lived together at spasmodic intervals. Her name is believed to have been Lizzie Fisher, but to most of the habitues of the haunts she visited she was known as Mary Jane. She had a room in the house where she was murdered. She carried a latch-key, and no one knows nt what hour she entered the house that night, aud probably .no one saw the man who accompanied her. Therefore, it is hardly likely that he will ever be identified. He might easily have left the house at any time between 1 and 6 o’clock in the morning without attracting attention. The doctors who examined the remains refused to make any statement. Three bloodhounds belonging to private citizens were t ike a to the place where tne body lay and placed on the scent of the murderer, but they were unable to keep it for any great distance, aud all hope of running the assassin down with their assistance have been abandoned. Several arrests have been made, amidst great excitement, but no proof has been brought forward as to the guilt of the parlies incarcerated.