Atchison Daily Globe
Kansas, USA
27 September 1888
"A HORRIBLE TALE"
Blood-Curdling Suggestions Growing Out of the White Chapel Horrors
London, Sept. 27.
The coroner in summing up at the inquest in the case of the last woman found murdered in White Chapel, stated to the jury
that shortly after the details of the last sitting of the jury had been published, the sub-curator of the English
Pathological Museum had informed him that some months ago an American had visited him and asked him (the sub-curator) to
produce a number of specimens of the uterus. The visitor stated that he would willingly pay £20 each for specimens, his
object being to issue an actual specimen with each copy of a book upon which he was engaged. The sub-curator promptly
informed the applicant that it would be impossible to comply with his request. The American still urged the feasibility of
procuring specimens, and said he wanted them preserved in glycerine, instead of spirits, in order to keep them flaccid. The
request had been repeated at another institute. The sub-curator had promptly informed Scotland Yard authorities of the facts
in his possession. The coroner expressed the hope that greater publicity would tend to elucidate the mystery, and that the
publication of these facts in the American press would assist in throwing light on the subject.
