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7 August 1889
A SHE MONSTER
London's Cut Throat is a Woman
Prompted by Jealousy to Murder Her Fallen Sisters
The following startling and appalling story relating to the Whitechapel atrocities has been furnished (by) the Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent:-
The perpetrator of the Whitechapel butcheries is a woman, so the story goes. The letters signed by Jack the Ripper were thus signed to lead to the supposition that the murderer was a man, and the reason why all of the victims selected by the murderess were women was because the tigress is insane from jealousy.
Great surprise has been expressed at the fact that so many of the murders could be committed in such a thickly populated locality, and that the man who did the killing could escape, especially as all of the fallen women of London have been on their guard for months past. There need be no longer any astonishment felt on that score, since it is known that the victims of the knife wielder had no suspicion that the bloody work was being carried on by one of their own sex. The murderess could approach a woman without being suspected, because she was a woman herself. She could discuss the murders with her dissolute companions; and on the pretense of illustrating how the butcheries were committed would pass her left arm around the victim's head, covering the eyes, and pulling the head back with the one hand while she drew her knife across the throat with the other.
There are conflicting statements made relative to the identity of the murderess, and it is impossible at this hour to say whether the authorities have positive information on that point or not.
It is asserted that the fact that the killer is a woman was developed by an unsuccessful attempt to murder a harlot in Whitechapel, and the arrest of the would be perpetrator, who is said to be a Spanish or Italian woman, whose motive was to murder all the fallen women she could, in the hope that by so doing she would remove the one that had a roused her jealousy. She not being positive as to the exact woman who had charmed her lover from her side.
In addition it is alleged that the tigress mutilated the corpses of those she killed in order to further satisfy her crazy desire for revenge.
7 August 1889
A SHE MONSTER
London's Cut Throat is a Woman
Prompted by Jealousy to Murder Her Fallen Sisters
The following startling and appalling story relating to the Whitechapel atrocities has been furnished (by) the Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent:-
The perpetrator of the Whitechapel butcheries is a woman, so the story goes. The letters signed by Jack the Ripper were thus signed to lead to the supposition that the murderer was a man, and the reason why all of the victims selected by the murderess were women was because the tigress is insane from jealousy.
Great surprise has been expressed at the fact that so many of the murders could be committed in such a thickly populated locality, and that the man who did the killing could escape, especially as all of the fallen women of London have been on their guard for months past. There need be no longer any astonishment felt on that score, since it is known that the victims of the knife wielder had no suspicion that the bloody work was being carried on by one of their own sex. The murderess could approach a woman without being suspected, because she was a woman herself. She could discuss the murders with her dissolute companions; and on the pretense of illustrating how the butcheries were committed would pass her left arm around the victim's head, covering the eyes, and pulling the head back with the one hand while she drew her knife across the throat with the other.
There are conflicting statements made relative to the identity of the murderess, and it is impossible at this hour to say whether the authorities have positive information on that point or not.
It is asserted that the fact that the killer is a woman was developed by an unsuccessful attempt to murder a harlot in Whitechapel, and the arrest of the would be perpetrator, who is said to be a Spanish or Italian woman, whose motive was to murder all the fallen women she could, in the hope that by so doing she would remove the one that had a roused her jealousy. She not being positive as to the exact woman who had charmed her lover from her side.
In addition it is alleged that the tigress mutilated the corpses of those she killed in order to further satisfy her crazy desire for revenge.
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