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SPECIAL EDITION.NOT THE_“ RIPPER.£ Woman's Body DiMOTTOd With Throat Oat and SJA SUSPECT.f:00f that the Corpse was Wheeled to Hampstead in a Bassinette.Last night a shocking discovery of whatat Hampstead, and at first the rumour spread that “Jack the Ripper a: work in the locality and had cut off a heal The inquiries made by o; s latest atrocity wasmanner associated with that individual’s r cru’.ions, though the details are of a r.orr.ble nature to be considered well a It appears that as , Macdoag niieinaQ residing in Belsize Park,going through Crossfield-road, Eton-a venue, on his way home just after seven o’clock last even-ng, be noticed a woman lying at he side of the road in that dark and onely thoroughfare, which is only partially built on and has no public lamps. At first he paidHow long had you bees away ?—Jast § fpjrAnd you were sot sway more than, tay» JWO yards from the spot at soy lime between**^ eight #'clock?—I was sever away ft thatYou heard no not aaythmg to make me thii occurrence was taking plate.Then as to the woman wh _____... _know her?«*She is quite a ttntsger to thisIs there say other watchman engaged at A* buildings besides yourself?—Yes, them is ose I relieve film at] seven o’deck, and be did^ftat ' about the affair until be was tt)dything about one along tinfwiss Cottage, St John's Wood, he found Gar-diner, 6o4 S, on duty, and bf ialorreed the officer that he had seen a womm Ijnag in a fit in CrosSr field road. The constable at once went with hi to the place indicated, and found the worn: tere, her head covered over with a mat s eevdess cardigan jacket. On removing tlcalled byThis gentleman pronounced life extinct, as also Weils, of Belsize Park, who had Mr. S. Macdonald.Meanwhile intelligence of the startling discovery! bad been conveyed to Hampstead Police-station*,! and Inspectors Wright and Collia, S division,; with other officers, quickly arrived on thg scene with the police ambulance. The body was conveyed thereoa to Hampstead Police, station, where Dr, Pawlett Wells, Dr. Herberj Cooper, the police divisional surgeon, and Mr. A. C Fox, together made a full and complete ex* temal examination of the deceased. This ^howed that she had sustained a compound comminuted fracture of the skull, evidently produced by % powerful blow with some heavy, sharp, and penetrating weapon, probably a pickaxe. There were other wounds on her head, and her ’broat had been cut in such a determined manner that her head was nearly severed from her body, both the windpipe and the spinal column having been divided There were also bruises on her right hand, and on the right side ofy there were no marks bloodstains, over the above the ankle offound in brickr.ght hip and a bruise the right foot. Her clothing is said_ when she was first rouad but it is understood that there indicate that she had been outraged further than in the brutal manner above described.Colonel Monsell, the district chief constable of Metropolitan Police, with Chief-Inspector Cole, S division, and Detective-inspector Bannister, of the Criminal Investigation Department, arrived at Hampstead, having been apprisedthe occurrence by te* 1 -Colhs and Wright neighbourhood where the body cuest of a clue to the murderer. In the spot about midnight a blood-was sound, with which, it is thought, woman may have been first stunned.There is also a theory that she may have been murdered elsewhere and conveyed to this spot. This theory has received some support by the d.scovery this morning of a blood-stained has.nette perambulator at St. John’s Wood. The unfortunate woman has not yet been identified.THE SUSPECTED MURDERER.A Central News o clock ; The polia a man, who can be identified, aged about 40, nearly six leet high, with a dark moustache, and wearing a light suit and a peak cap, has been noticed for some nights past loitering in the vicinity of the Hampstead murder.A BLOOD-STAINED RUG.The same correspondent stated : The bassinette already mentioned was found by the police. It comamed a brown fur rug, which was much blood-stained.AN IMPORTANT CLUE.The Central News correspondent, writing later, says The police have now no doubt that the tloody bassinette found at St. John's Wood was med to remove the remains of the unfortunate woman. One of the brass nuts belonging to the handle of the bassinette was missing, and this has s nce been found close to the spot Ms discovered. It corresponds with thlt; ud fits exactly.NO POOL OF BLOOD FOUND.fe.d-road, South Hampstead, are absolutely erroneous. The story that she was found lying in a P ol of blood is one of f*(«t, it is one of the most l- e case that, though her *? terribly gashed, there wias scarcely hiood at the spot where she ;' 5 goes to strengthen U c°t murdered at that £ corpse m brought c°verv 0: acut handles, and m°-h stained with b “oth.ng to do with this case, but it is a cry remarkable incident. The newt of the dis-t0Very of that perambulator reached the police 'gaged in investigating the case at an early hour p 5 moming, *®d it now appears that the peram-*:cr was found in HamOtoa-tersace, *St. Joba’s-*°^d, about half-past ten lasrsigbt, or more than .ree h°urs after the discovery oTthe dead body of [he w°man. The deceased is believed to have te-n dead an hour or more before her body was ound. The distance from Hamilton-terrace to yossi.eld-road » about a mile or more The ‘Stenteni that the police ** recognised*’ the deceased I* of the • unfortunate* who walk Kton-.Venue '* also incorrect, and, although the body k'as tj?en *«ea by police officers and others who the unrortunates** well by sight, they have toih, present failed to identify “as lound i ■*'Ji’hoibe The i tig their enquiries. mght watchman's STATEMENT, our own representatives has had an the night watchman who was oft di ent buildings at the time when titherengs at tne time when the body I came on duty,** he said, ttaUy at 7 o'clock, and passed the spot the body was found. When I passed by. ere a man and a woman standing together “ u e opposite side of the way, but I could lot uvL * they we - * - -*hat height was i ' was Sveteet high.And the woman v*ho was found dead was much ^.r .-Oh, yes, a good deal.■ori.n* v.dlir*°t strike you si being the sams h. ‘a °- *he did notatnke me atthe time ofYou heard no one sereatning ?I heard nothing at all. If there slightest ftoise I should have have because these streets are quite quiet after ddrk. She could not have * * 1 ‘ |wU|that he body wasTHE SCENE OP DISCOVERY,Of the various theories on the sub trageiy the police place as to the body having 1 Where it was found, and there deposited.Apart from the infermatioa which, the poure naive received, there are circumstances whieh te the out- int to the iprobabiiity of this jtfcediryThe body, for example, wasfohhd piece of grpufttf Which Wftf, 1*. leaped with *4over wi*:. l«-r bricks too(together -fe? ti upon whichcare to lt;.p which theythlt;. • v« T lt;difetubiy, ’ Kd ..--■toere ^ifgns Ifiat ' aemitted near thevo the evident*6. beyond a small pooli formed ah the result'of ah Stick or two previously, t owing of the body c bricky thtree are no signs of any struggle having taken place in the vicinity. The district ir sodeserted and quiet at night ‘easy to conceive of a parson wheeling _lalor to the spot, and, by a little scheming, avoiding observation ; and this as much ts anything seems to have led rities to take a serious view of th lator theory. On the roadway it ispartially been forihas yetltfitctfdyformed, and the ground is so soft andick left by toe wheels of the vehidem?*t quickly obliternted. At the time Whenthe body i commanded a view of of Etoa-avenue, a point coming from or ?oiae to have passed route, so that body at the spot to Maida Vi ingwatchman isterft and personSit there on Ie*yr e must kayo by an indirect route. As 1, however, the police are couceatra-of their attention on the Maida Valeting moi theory, have beVale district all the .... . that as the day advances some developments will, take place which will either condemn or prove the accuracy of the theory. ..So far the inquest has not been arranged for, it is anticipated that it will take place some ! this evening.' In the course ot the forenoon the scene of the murder was visited by a great owar tf people. Over the spot where the body was found has been placed a board, and over this again a sack.* THE RIPPER” TERROR. ‘ ~ - -A Press Association reporter writing thla morning says : The body has been moved to the Jhfiir-’ tuary at New End, and an inquest will be bald- by Dr. Danford Thomas, coroner for the district, probably on Monday or Tuesday. The impression which prevailed last night in the ntigbboar-of the crime was that the murder had been where the body wai found. Rumour it with the “Jack the Ripper series of all manner of. exaggerated repofta in the neighbourhood. A Press reporter, who visited the scene at an this morning, found that the police t theory that it has the remotest toft-with the East-end tragedies.They are of opinion that the murder was not committed in Hampstead at all, but*that the body was conveyed to the spot where it was. foontf, and deposited there by the murderer or murderers. In support of this view, it is pointed out that the place, although close to numerous dweiiing-housis, is secluded, and rarely traversed afte?ft^kff*Hmile froinCrossfield-road, discovered onthepavemefit an empty bassinette perambulator, in which, was a woollen rug and some linen stained, with blpolt;L The authorities are therefore of opinion that the murder has been committed in some - other part of London,, and tost gie .-body was conveyed in the perambulator under cover 02 night to the spot where it Was found. The desire for concealment is ftAr|her evidenced by toe fact thftt the victim's pockets were empty' and that no article o( her clothing wm$ marked with the already mentioned. As soon as day! peered this morning Inspeotor G of detectives made a thorough inv empty bouses within a radius of m Ue of the scene, as well as _ _ , . wgardens, but without result. The description toe woman was telegraphed to all s metropolitan police stations early last night, t up to eight o'clock this morning dm sad t been identified. Some of those who saw toe body thought they recognised a woman who had been in toe habit of taking toe neighbourhood for immoral ptnposo* The authorities have not adopted this view, as the con-stables on daty in that part of Hampstead Were paraded to view thf body, and failedrecognise her. So far then, toe motivethe tragedy, and the identity of ^ toe icipal actors in it, are alike unknown. Investigations are, however, being, pursued by a large «t«$ of detectives, and their efforts, coupled Wito the —to the personal appearance of the an, may he fruitful of succefif.Inspector Bannister states that the assertion that a man drove in a cab from Hampstead to . Chalk Farm under the circumstances recorded; in-this _______ VICTIM. ' \\ */'The description as noted by ’*those who have seen the body are uafamiliat. style of (he garment suggests that she firing a ehOd, though, so far as is at -ptmmi town, this suggestion is not borne out :fty fifty her appearaacoa jffDrf Bond, of toe Westminster HospitaL lufr examined toe body, tbs appearances di wkkhr altogether negative the suggestion that it is aCae type ot the Whitechapel outrages.SUPPOSED IDENTIFICATION, *v- ? The Central Newt elated at one Weiook thatpolice had some clue to tho. identity ol the jrqmfif-iotaWAS A BOQXagLLEX'g uat*TK5« MAMiM.Mr/S. R.the ddan as nemg tne same, woman, and It..ink yet that she was. u‘tfn.auter yon saw them what did yoado?-wlt; d back again on the same aide of the way the vl ,come* “d passed round toanotber part ol I came back agatn perhaps*°1 *’**** v*B '..wiy. Th. f.« u, I did itotkk.ft § ^ «• O r ieir WEQ t-rrttwimk w WMftts a Nsaase^e
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London Evening News and Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 25, 1890
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