FIENDISH MURDER.
Girl Shockingly Treated
SCOTLAND YARD SEARCH (Rec. January 26, 8 p.m.) London, January 25. The examination made by Sir Bernard Spllsbury, Home Office Pathologist, reveals that the Blackheath “Ripper” murder was one of the most fiendish in the annals of crime. x The victim was strangled with a narrow band which was part of her dress, and maltreated in a shocking manner, not with a knife, but possibly with a broken bottle. A man’s teeth marks were on the body. Sir Bernard Spllsbury puts the time of the murder at a later hour than was thought by Scotland Yard, which now believes that the girl was attacked on the heath where the body was found. Few people were about, as it was dark and raining fairly heavily. More than 50 special yard men are engaged on the case.
A “Jack the Ripper” type of murder was discovered in London on Friday. The victim, a domestic servant named Louise Maud Steele, aged 18 years, was found in a Blaekheath area used as a football ground. The body was unclothed, and mutilated as the “Ripper” mutilated his victims. In the woman’s left hand was a tightly-clenched shoe. The other shoe was found fifteen yards away.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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205FIENDISH MURDER. Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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