Attack On Malvina Haynes

ANOTHER OUTRAGE AT WHITECHAPEL.

THE VICTIM A WEEK UNCONSCIOUS.

Whitechapel is becoming notorious for acts of brutal violence against women in the streets, and today inquiries are being pursued with reference to an attempted murder which occurred as far back as Monday night last, though the victim, who is still lying at the London Hospital, has not yet regained consciousness, and has, therefore, been unable to give any description of her assailant. It appears that on the night in question loud screams were heard in the vicinity of the railway arch adjoining the Leman-street Station, and a lodging-house keeper residing in Wellclose-square saw a man treating a woman with great violence. An alarm was raised, but the assailant ran away, leaving the woman lying moaning in the roadway. She was immediately conveyed to the London Hospital, where she was afterwards identified as Malvina Haynes, a married woman; residing at 29, Newman-street, Whitechapel. Up to this afternoon she had not sufficiently recovered to make any intelligible statement as to how she met with her injuries, which are principally confined to her head. It is, indeed, very

DOUBTFUL WHETHER SHE WILL RECOVER

from the murderous attack, as the concussion of the brain, from which Mrs. Haynes has chiefly suffered, is of so dangerous a character that the medical staff at the London Hospital think that recovery is a matter of great uncertainty. Inspector Reid and Detective-Sergeant William New are using every endeavour to trace the assailant, but at present no apprehension has been made.

Source: The Echo, Monday April 9, 1888 , Page 3