John Stevenson, Glasgow

WHITECHAPEL MURDERS IMITATED.
LONDON, January 4.

A lad named Stevenson, nineteen years of age, stabbed a Glasgow prostitute in the neck and abdomen. The woman was not killed, but is in a precarious condition. The culprit was remanded. He admitted that a desire to imitate "Jack the Ripper" had induced him to commit the crime.

Source: Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 4, 5 January 1889, Page 3

"Jack the Ripper" at Glasgow.
A PROMPT CAPTURE.

The Glasgow police reported on Thursday that an attempted "Jack the Ripper" case has occurred in Glasgow.
The facts are as follows: - Soon after one o'clock this morning an unfortunate woman, named Mary Mackenzie, was accosted by a young man near the Royal Exchange, and was persuaded to accompany him up a court at 85, Queen-street. They had no sooner got into a dark and secluded corner than he threw his arm round the woman, and with a pocket-knife stabbed her in the neck, then immediately withdrawing the blade he plunged it rapidly seven or eight times in succession into her abdomen. The poor creature apparently

SURMISED HIS INTENTION,

and seems to have succeeded in warding off the force of some of the blows. Had she not done so, the stabs must certainly have proved fatal. Her loud cries brought assistance whereupon the man fled. He was, however, caught after a short chase, and being taken to the police office prisoner gave his name as John Stevenson. He described himself as a coachbuilder, residing in Anderston, Glasgow, his age being 19. He was under the influence of drink at the time. He was charged at the Central police-court, today, and remanded for 24 hours. His victim, after being carried to the police-office, was conveyed to the Railway Infirmary, where she now lies. There is no apparent motive for the crime; and the police assume that Stevenson must have conceived a drunken idea of emulating the Whitechapel murderer.

Source: Cardiff Times, 5 January 1889, Page 4