Mysterious Murders in London.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 26

Mysterious Murders in London.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. A SUSPECT ARRESTED. • HORRIBLE DETAILS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, September 27. The Whitechapel coroner has been informed that purchasers' are found in America for anatomical portions of human bodies, such 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. The investigation of the Whitechapel murders still continues, and it has been ascertained that an American offered the curator of a London hospital the sum of £2O for each specimen of the uterus he could procure for him. The applicant stated that bis object in endeavouring to secure these specimens was in order to issue an actual specimen (sic) with each 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 pr posal. 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. London, September 28. The man Fitzgerald who Was arrested, and who '.i-tsasi IS to,

committed the murder at Birtley, in Durham, is pronounced insane. London, September 30. At 2.30 this morning the body of a woman, aged 35, was discovered murdered and completely disemboweled, near the junction of Leadenhall and Fenchurch - streets, A.dgate. The woman’s nose was severed from her face. An hour earlier the body of another woman, with her throat cut, bad been discovered in a back yard in Bernerß-street, but as the body was not mutilated in any other way, it is not thought that this murder is of the same clats as those reported lately. In consequence of the discovery of the mutilated body in Leadenhall-street there is great excitement in the city to-day. Up to the present no arrests have been made. Later. It is said that the mutilations on the body of the murdered woman in the Aldgate district eclipse the horrors in connection with similar outrages in Whitechapel. London, October I. The Times urges that bloodhounds should be set on the track of the Aidgate murderer. In consequence of the recent murders the women in the city are in a state of terror. Several indignation meetings have been held, at which resolutions demanding the immediate resignation of Mr Matthews, Home f-ecretary, and Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of Police, were passed. (special to press association.) London, October 1. The panic excited by the recent murders continues. The police are apparently paralysed, and their helplessness is denounced on all sides. Her Majesty has been petitioned to offer a reward for the apprehension of the assassin.