On February 10, 1907, London, England's Weekly Dispatch reported on an "uncatchable" vanishing man in the town of Winchester. Women of that city gave accounts of having their hands slapped by an unidentifiable assailant. "A mysterious feature of the affair is that the man disappears, as if by magic," said the newspaper. In February 1909, panic broke out in the streets of Berlin, Germany, when a local newspaper reported that seventy-three women had been stabbed by a similar "uncatchable." The perpetrator was described as "a young man always vanishing." The majority of the victims were not seriously wounded.