Vienna, January 3, 1899
A news lead from Vienna, dated 3 January 1899, reports that "another Jack the Ripper murder has been committed here. The police arrested a Hungarian pork butcher named Schgstowitz. There was great difficulty in preventing the crowd lynching him."
The report does not say whether the Hungarian pork butcher was the murderer, although the crowd seemed to believe that it was him. His name is also interesting (although misspelled ¨C it should be written as Sczestowitz) because it is almost certainly of Jewish origin. Considering the anti-Semitic sentiment in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in the late 19th century, it is quite possible that the poor butcher was simply a victim of the current animosity towards Jews. Moreover, he was also Hungarian, giving him a status of second-class citizen in Vienna.
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