Marion Daily Star
Ohio, USA
4 Jnuary 1889
Fiendish Murders After the Style of "Jack the Ripper."
TWO REPORTED IN ONE DAY
London, Jan. 4.
Newspapers at present teem with accounts of fiendish murders. Yesterday at
South Perchton, in Somerset, a girl ten years old,
named Davy, was outraged and then murdered. Her mother found the girl's
dead body in a ditch with the head almost severed
from the trunk, and the body shockingly mutilated after the style of "Jack
the Ripper's" methods. The deed is supposed to
have been committed by a tramp. No one has yet been arrested for the
crime.
At Glasgow, John Stevenson, a young fellow about nineteen years of age,
enticed a prostitute named Mary McKenzie into a dark
court and stabbed her in the neck and abdomen. There was apparently no
motive whatever for the deed but an insane freak.
Stevenson was arrested, and a bloody knife was found in his pocket. The
only motive that one can suggest for the commission
of such atrocities is that the persons responsible for them have been
inflamed by reading about the Whitechapel fiend and
attempt to imitate him.
