Ripper On Manitoulin Island

Shocking Tragedy.

DETROIT, Feb. 5. - A special to the News from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., says: Two half-breeds were brought to Canada's "Soo" this morning from Little Current, Manitoulin Islands, charged with an atrocity outrivalling "Jack the Ripper" in his heinous crimes. The place where the crime was committed is one hundred miles from here; and without telegraph communication; but the circumstances were learned by the News' correspondent from a resident of the island. Moses Esqumaut, Jack Doglas, Henry, Bob and S. Bandin, in company with the mother of the three latter and another half-breed woman, named Christena Togosh, were last seen together about two miles from town, and on the morning after, the body of Christena was found in a pool of blood with the intestines strewn around. It is alleged that the woman was first outraged, then disemboweled and otherwise horribly mutilated. The affair caused great excitement and horror here.

Source: The Daily Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia, Thursday February 7, 1889