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Who was this blind guy? Spitalfields knife attack Nov 16 1888

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  • Who was this blind guy? Spitalfields knife attack Nov 16 1888

    Sorry if this common knowledge.. as I guess it may be but I couldn't find anything else on it.

    Who's this guy? Anyone know? And wasn't Alice McKenzie known to hang out with a blind man?

    Another Woman Stabbed.

    At five Minutes after eleven o'clock yesterday morning a most exciting incident took place. A man suddenly attacked a woman in Spitalfields-market while she was passing through. After felling her to the ground with a blow, he began kicking her, and pulled out a knife. Some women who had collected, having the terrible tragedy that brought them there still fresh in their minds, on seeing the knife, raised such piercing screams, of ' Murder ' so that they reached the enormous crowds in Hanbury street. There was at once a rush for Commercial-street, where the markets are situated, as it was declared by some that there was another murder, and by others that the murderer had been arrested. Seeing the immense crowd swarming around him, the man who was the cause of the alarm made more furious efforts to reach the woman, from whom he had been separated by some persons, who interfered on her behalf. He, however, threw these on one side, fell upon the woman, knife in hand, and inflicted various stabs on her head, cut her forehead, neck, and fingers before he was again pulled off. When he was again pulled off the woman lay motionless—the immense crowd took up the cry of 'Murder!' and the people who were on the streets raised cries of 'Lynch him !' At this juncture the police arrived, arrested the man, and after a while had the woman conveyed on a stretcher to the station in Commercial-street, where she was examined by the divisional surgeon. She was found to be suffering from several wounds, but none of them were considered dangerous. She was subsequently removed to the London hospital, where she was detained as an inpatient. Her assailant is described as a blind man, who sells laces in the streets, and whom she led about from place to place. The blind man is said to have an ungovernable temper, and he was seen, whilst the woman was leading him along, to stab her several times in the neck. Blood flowed quickly, and it was at first thought that another terrible murder had been committed. The affair occurred midway between Buck's row and Hanbury-street.

    AT five ninutes after eleven o'clock yesterday morning a most exciting incident took place. A man suddenly attacked a woman in Spitalfields-market ...


    How'd he locate her in a huge panicking crowd, being blind and all?
    Last edited by Ausgirl; 02-14-2015, 09:02 AM.
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