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SPECIAL EDITION.NOT THE “RIPPER.£ Woman's Bodj Discovered WithThroat Oat and SIA SUSPECT.f:30f that the Corpse was Wheeled to Hampstead in a Bassinette.Last night a shocking discovery of what, at 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 olatest atrocity wi manner associated with that individual’s rations, though thewell ait appears that as kfr. S, g niieinan residing in Belsize Park, was going through Crossfield-road, Eton-avenue, 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 lamp*. At first he paidrarch of a police-constaWe. Near fwiss Cottage, St John's Wood, he found Gar-d ner, 654 S, on duty, and hf informed the office? that he had seen a woman lying in a fit in CrosSr field road. The constable at once went with hi to the place indicated, and found the worn: t^ere, her head covered over with a mat s eevdess cardigan jacket. On removing tlawny?-J»itffilF.And you were sot away more than, *ay» 800 yards from the spot at any time between «ev*aned eight •dock?—! was sever away furtherIs there ay other watchman engaf building* besides yourself?-—Yes, there ii I relieve him atj seven o’deck, and be did EM ‘ ut the affair until he was ttfd time afterwards.ting st all. If there had bein'tlMt slightest noise I should have have heard it JMltf because these streets are quite quiet after dirk. She could not have screamed. I believe myadf. that he body was taket£here. -----0THE SCENE pr DISCOVERY. Of the various theories nn the subject, qf the trageiy the police place most importance dir that as to the body having been conveyed to the spot where it was found, and there deperited. Apart frem the imermatioa which, the police naive received, there are circumefances which te the out* side observer point to the probability of this theory being correct. The body, for example, was fouhd upon i rough piece of ground which WM ii. some parts heaped with *4 in .dlfenr.parts sprinkled over wi»* l-tr • bricks and debris, and altogether .fef a r Upon which * whkh; theycalled byIn s 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 th* scene with the police ambulance. The body was conveyed thereon to Hampstead Police* station, where Dr. Pawlett Wells, Dr. Herberf Cooper, the police divisional surgeon, and Mr. A, C P ox, together made a full and complete ex.* lernal examination of the deceased. This * that she had sustained a compound com frac'.ure of the skull, evidently produced by * powerful blow with some heavy, sharp, and penetrating weapon, probably a pickaxe. There wereher head, anddeterminedmanner that her head was nearly severed from her body, both the windpipe and the spinal column having been divided, bruises on her right hand, and on the right side ofr.ght hip and a bruise the right foot. Her clothing is saidbloodstains, over the above the ankle ofbut it is understood tha indicate that she had outraged further than in the brutal mannerdescribed.Colonel Monsell, the district chief constable of Metropolitan Police, with Chief-Inspector Cole, S d;vision, and Detective-inspector Bannister, of the Criminal Investigation Department, arrived at Hampstead, having been apprisedfound in brickColhs and Wrightneighbourhood 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 mi murdered elsei This theory h d.scovery thisbas.nette perambulator at St. John’s Wood. TheTHE 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 vicinityof the Hampstead murder.A BLOOD-STAINED RUG.The same correspondent stated : The bassinette already mentioned was found by the police, comamed a brown fur rug, which was mAN 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 oman. 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; aad 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 them. As a matter of ttt, it is one of the most remarkable features in case that, though her head and throat were *° terribly gashed, there wias scarcely Lood at the spot where she ;::s goes to strengthen U murdered at thatcarcely any 1 lying dead, i she wasbeen broughtThe dis-itor with-the inside veryc'Jt handles, andstained with blood, may of lt;ng to do with this case, but it is y remarkable incident, like news of the ditto very | I__________'gaged in investigating the cate at an early hi «s morning, ind it now appears that the peram-*:cr was found in Hamtttoa-tezrace, St. Joha't-about half-past ten lasrsight, or more thaw L fee hours after the discovery oTthe dead body of woman. The deceased is believed to havebeendead an hour or iThe ii from Hamilton-terrace tMossfield-road is about a mile or more The demerit that the police M recognised the deceased °ne of the •• unfortunate* who walk Kton-v?nue is also incorrect, and, although the body en seen by police officers and others who 'w i!.e unrortunates** well by tight, they have ■J toth, present failed to identify, “ * * *• —-as lound i *'■1 Photo,e The i their enquiries.NIGHT watchman's statement. our own representatives hat had an the night watchman who was on dl ent buildings at the time when titherelings at tne time when the body I came on duty,** he said, lU;iliy at 7 o'clock, and passed the spot V When I passed by.opposite side of tlanding together ----------- y, but I could notUu * they we ‘ ‘ ', * bat height was ire was five teet high.And the woman v*ho was found dead was a . j~i * a good deal.J,d *he did not strike you gs being the h.‘ *n did not strike me atthe ticovery as beinicanno inV “ *amc »°man, and 1°t t,.ink yet that ahe was.U,itMter you ,aw them what did you do?— d back again on the suae tide of the way the k, ,come* “d passed round toaaother part of * 1 came ugitoperhaps aboutui,„ »od th» Im. « nmpleoa•ickt, theree are no signs of any strugglfi having akenj^iace to the vanity. The district i* soanything seems to have led 1 ‘ take ^serious view of thopartially been forttheory. On the roadway it is tect any txlaces of the wheels ofthe buildings in the street being onlyformed, and the ground is so soft end 1ick left by toe wheels of the vehkttema** quickly obliterated. At the time Whentire body v commanded a view of of Eton-avenue, a pointwatchman ►stern endhave passed route, so that body at the spot to Maida Viingdone soit there on lept-- •theory.by an indirect , however, the police are coucentra-of their attention on the Maida ValeVale district all the ......that as the day advances some development* 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 or the forenoon the scene of the murder wasbeen placed a board, and oveTHE RIPPER” TERROR, tssociatioi ing says : The body IU be held- by the district.probably on Monday or Tuesday. The impression which prevailed last night in the neigbboUf-of the crime was that the murder had been where the body wai found. Rumour it with the **J»ck the Ripper series of ner of. exaggerated reports neighbourhood. A Press reporter, who visited the scene at an this morning, found that the police i theory that it has the remotest ton-with the East-end tragedies.They are of opinion that the murder was no committed in Hampstead at all, buf that the body was conveyed to the spot where it was. £gHQO and deposited there by the murderer or murderers. In support of this view, it is pointed out tWthe place, although close to numerous dweiiing-housis, is secluded, and rarely traversed afte?n^hff*Hnot at • infliabout an hour after the tragedy : which _____... .. efetty amile ftomCroMfield-road, discovered oathepsvoiaehtlinen stained, with blfKxL The authorities are therefore of opinion that tho murder has been committed in some • other part of London,, and that the body was conveyed in the perambi ‘ under cover 02 night to the spot wnere it found. The desire for concealment is ftAr|her evidenced by the fact that the victim's pockets were empty' and that no article pi her1 this n► tkerougb rnve i a radius ofjile^of the ______ _ . _ ...,gardens, but without result. The desmiptious metropolitan police stationsbeen identified. ; toe body thought the; who had been in toe neighbourhood for iis early last nighl, morning rim sadstables on duty in that part of Hsmpttoad Were paraded to view the body, and fatted recognise her. So far then, toe motive the tragedy, and the identity of ^ the ‘ actors in it, are alike unknown. InVestiga-. however, being, pursued by a large YU detectives, and their efforts, coupled wTto the i to the personal appearance of the tan, may he fruitful of sttccefif.lister states that the assertion that a man drove in a cab from Hampstead to . Chalk Farm under the circumstances recorded in thisDESCRIPTION OF THE VICTIM. J * / The description II noted by ’*cashmere. Sul wore two petti* rith red and yellow stripes, f white fiaaaeC Hw*m P. H.” neatly embroider** fa red. The woven vest Waa of n make with^ wfifth those who have seen toe body am uatmiliar. - The style of (he garment suggests that sho-:iiia a tdittd. though, so far r ’ -her appearancoa r.xr -Dr. Bond, of toe Westminster Hospital Tuft examined the body, the appearances. of wlWr altogether negative the suggestion that it is nCan type ot the Whitechapel outrages, ~ v‘.IDENTIFICATION, fThe Central News stated at wue delock that thlt;police had some clue to the identity ol the ftqr^••L0H3 WAS A BOOXSELLEA’B EASkvdeath of Jaoei V „.... had hanged hims^f irea JiMe Temple B*. The *5den*e fikfl- ^ - - - - —'ar S^ years Jr m. Strand.
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London Evening News and Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 25, 1890
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