Marion Daily Star
Ohio, USA
19 December 1893
Suspected of Whitechapel Crimes
According to sheriff Beecher, in charge of the jail at Monticello, N. Y., where Mrs.
Halliday, the murderess, is confined, "recent investigations show that Mrs. Halliday is in
all probability connected with the famous Whitechapel murders. It has been proved that she
was in Europe at the time. She frequently refers to the subject both when she is in
possession of her mental faculties and when she is raving."
In addition, the sheriff said: "I said to Mrs. Halliday 'Lizzie, you are accused of the
Whitechapel murders. Are you guilty?' 'Do you think I am an elephant?' she replied. 'That
was done by a man.'"
Mrs. Halliday is constantly speaking of these murders. She also talks of many women
brought from New York who have been robbed, killed, cut up in small pieces and dumped in
the Hudson river.
