Atrocious murder in London

6th February 1904

 ATROCIOUS MURDER IN LONDON. At Fulham on Saturday Mr C. L. Drew opened an inquiry with reference to the death of

Elizabeth Craig, 25, domestic cook, late of Willoughby Road, Kingston-on-Thames, whose mutilated body was found in the Thames off Hurlingham, Fulham. The Coroner said the body was extensively mutilated.
Dr. Edward Seaton Pattison, divisional surgeon of police, deposed that the left leg, from three inches below the knee, was entirely missing, and the tissue torn. There was a fracture of the left thigh, and a double fracture of the left humerus. All the ribs were broken. There was a wound on the left side of the scalp, with a fracture of the outer plate of the skull, and a wound behind the left ear. The outer part of the arm and bone were missing -either sawn or chopped away. In the left groin was a wound 3in. in length, extending upward and outward towards the abdomen and deep into the thigh. The torn flesh was protruding. The front of the dress was entirely missing. The clothes must have been lifted before the cut could be made in the groin.