Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1889 — LONDON'S LATEST SENSATION. [ARTICLE]

LONDON'S LATEST SENSATION.

Two Boys Murdered and Horribly Mutilated. The mutilated body of a boy was found in an outhouse at Bradford Saturday morning. It was recognized as that of John Gill, eight years of age, who when last seen alive was sliding on the ice with some companion. The boy had been brutally murdered. His legs and arms had been chopped off in a rough manner and tied to his body,his ears had been cut off arid there were two stab wounds in his chest and his heart and his entrails had been torn out. The remains, when found, were wrapped in a rough covering. The police believe, from the clumsy manner in which the body was mutilated, that the crime was the work of drunken lads, whose imagination had been inflamed by reading accounts of Whitechapel atrocities. It is supposed the murder and butchery were committed in some other place and the remains afterwards carried by the perpetrators to the outhouse in which they were found. The crime has created the greatest excitement at Bradford. The police have not as yet found any trace of the murderers. A milkman has been a i rested on suspicion of having committed the crime. The murdered boy had occasionally accompanied him on his rounds. The prisoner was the first to recognize the remains. Itjis certain that the body was E laced in the outhouse between the ours of 4 and 6 of the morning. Scarcely had the people begun to recover from the shock of the first than they were horrified by the report of another boy murder. The body of the second boy was horribly mutilated. It was found at Kilwich near Keighley. No clue to the murderer in either case has been found. The police are searching the country around and are assisted by volunteer parties. All the railway stations are oeing watched.