Hallo!
Zunächst einmal ein herzliches Willkommen an Loki auch von mir!
Des weiteren noch ein Torso-Fall von 1898. Der Bericht entstammt angeblich dem Delphos Herald vom 21. Januar 1898. Es gibt auch wesentlich längere Zeitungsberichte darüber. Dieser Kommentar aber zeigt sehr gut auf, dass die Torso-Morde von vielen Leuten damals nach wie vor mit JtR in Verbindung gebracht wurden:
JACK THE RIPPER
WOMAN'S BODY FOUND WITH LEGS MISSING
London, Jan 21 - The mutilated body of a woman was found in the rear of a church in Shoreditch. The body was enclosed in a sack and both legs were missing. The police have no clue to the identity of the dead woman or the cause of death. The East End is in a commotion over the resemblance of the case to the many murders committed by the mysterious Jack the Ripper.
Zu den frühen Torsomorden: Ein Bild aus der Illustrated Police News vom 20.September 1973 zum sogenannten ´Battersea Mystery´.
best regards,
panopticon
Es gab noch im Jahre 1884 den Tottenham Court Fall.
Wie angekündigt noch etwas zum Fall von 1902 aus Penny Illustrated and Illustrated Times
REVOLTING CRIME
Woman's Mutilated Body Found
What appears to be a terrible crime seems to have been committed in London on Saturday night, the remains of a woman, apparently a foreigner, and about thirty years of age, having been found sawn and cut in pieces in an alley on Broad Street, in a poor quarter of Lambeth. The body had not only been hacked in a most dreadful way, but the ten pieces piled together had also been baked or boiled, the head had been scalped, and the hands and feet were missing. The first to make the discovery was one of Doulton and Co.'s workmen, who left the main factory, and walked to a detached part of the works, several minutes' walk distant.
On going down Salamanea Street he came across the heap, lying in a slight recess of the pavement. It was quite light, but there was no one about at that night hour, except one or two men at the factory, the gate of which was not more than fifty yards distant. The man in charge of the gate, however, knew nothing of the incident, and was astonished and horrified by what he saw. His duties confined him to the works, and he had seen no one passing. The neighbourhood is noisy enough at night, and there were people moving about as late as two o'clock in the morning, so that the bundle can hardly have remained in the spot where it was found more than a couple of hours. The remains were removed by the police to the nearest mortuary.
On more careful examination, other points were noted about the body. It had been dissected in a very rough-and-ready fashion, in the manner that would be expected of an ignorant person, with no idea of anatomy. There was no blood about the remains, the treatment which they had undergone being sufficient to remove all traced. Some of the flesh had disappeared from the face, and all the hair from the crown of the head. What remained of it was the long, dark brown hair of a woman. The face was blanched and bloodless, but remained quite recognisable. The legs and arms had not been removed, but neither hands nor feet were left with the body, nor could any trace of them be found anywhere in the neighbourhood.
An employee of Doulton's was taken to the police-station during the day, and released after examination, and a medical inspection of the body was made without any direct result.
Since the horrible discovery the police have been busy in following up several slender clues, but at the moment of writing nothing tangible has resulted.
Zum Fall von 1891 aus der Hull and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Times vom 7 März 1891
ANOTHER LONDON MYSTERY
Tuesday's Star says:- The left leg and right hand and arm of a woman were found in Regent's canal at Bethnal Green on Monday, under the arch where Cambridge Heath-road crosses it. The limbs were wrapped in a thick coarse material and looked as if they had been in water for several days. The were immediately taken charge of by the police and conveyed to the Hackney mortuary, it is intended to drag the canal.
Another correspondent says:- A bargeman on thy Regent's Canal on Monday came across the mutilated and decomposed remains of a human being in the water near Cambridge Heath Bridge, Bethnal Gr. a Dr White, divisional surgeon, made an examination and found that the body was apparently that of an adult female. All the bones of the skull with the exception of three or four pieces, were missing, as were the spinal column, ribs, breastbone, haunch bones, right thigh,and leg. All the intestines were gone, and the body was in an advanced stage of decomposition. The doctor is of opinion that the bones had been dragged rudely from the body. The body had probably been in the water for six or eight months, and it is not likely any clue to its identity will be found.
Viele Grüße,
Shadow Ghost