THE LONDON MURDERS.
EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS.
ARREST OF THE MURDERER.
CONFESSION OF HIS GUILT. [.PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
London, September 27. The Whitechapel Coroner has been informed that purchasers are found in America for anatomical portions of human bodies, such as are missing from the corpses of the persons recently murdered.
In consequence of this information the Coroner states his belief that the murders were committed by some anatomist desirous of obtaining human organs for a medical exhibition in America.
Later. The investigation of the Whitechapel murders still continues.
It has been ascertained that an American offered the curator of a London hospital the sum of £20 for each specimen of the uterus he could procure for him.
The applicant stated that his object in endeavouring to secure these specimens was in order to issue an actual specimen with a copy of a new medical work to be published shortly, and he desired that they should be packed in glycerine to preserve them. The curator refused to entertain the proposal. Acting on the information of the Coroner, the police arrested a -man named Fitzgerald on a charge of murder, and he has confessed to having committed the latest crime.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9172, 29 September 1888, Page 5
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