"JACK THE RIPPER."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 877, 25 July 1910, Page 5

"JACK THE RIPPER."

A DOCTOR'S THEORY. AN ALLEGED CONFESSION. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. London, July 22. Dr. Fortes Winslow, the well-known expert in mental diseases, and founder of the British-Hospital for Mental Disorders, London, publishes letters in support of his theory that "Jack the Kipper" is a native of Melbourne, who was educated at a Scotch College, and returned to lluvrumbidgee (New South Wales), on his way to Melbourne, in 1889. Dr. Forbes Winston- odds that the 'man is now in South Africa. Melbourne, July 23. A lady has written as follows to Dr. Forbes Winslow"Your tracking of 'Jack the Kipper' frightened him into returning to Melbourne. Ho worked his passage to Murrumbidgee. Before starting for England he gained surgical knowledge from a medical friend. His wife died from* natural caus&s. 'Jack* confessed the London atrocities to.the writer, who reported the matter to Scotland Yard, which disregarded it. 'Jack the Ripper 1 often attended St. Paul's, Melbourne."

SIR R. ANDERSON'S VERSION

It is now more than twenty years sin~.e the "Jack the Ripper" scares thrilled London, and ever since then tne general public has believed that the identity of the murderer was: never known. I'here are, however, certain statements to the effect that it is known. Sir Robert Anderson was employed at the Home Officer as adviser in matters relating to political crime from lSfis, and from IS6S was head of the Criminal Investigation Department. He was also at one time Assistant Commissioner oi Police' of the Metropolis. In 1901 he retired. ■ Sir- Robert Anderson 6tates in "Blackwood's" thut not only is the identity of the ''Ripper known at Scotland \ f ard, but that if the police in England had the same powers that are possessed by the police he would have' been brought to justice. "Undiscovered murders are rare m London," says Sir Robert, "and the ,'Jack the Ripper' crimes are not within that category.' , ' , , . "One did not need to be a Sherlock Holmes to discovery that the criminal was a sexual maniac, of a virulent t type;, that he was living in tho immodift to vicinity of tho scoiies of the murders; and that if he was not living absolutely alone, his people knew of his •milt, and refused to give him .up to jus"lluring my nbsoiKO .(broad (ho police had made a house-to-house search for liim, investigating the case of every man in the district whose circumstances were such that ho could go and conic and get rid of his bloodstains in secret. And the conclusion we came to was that he and his people were low-class Jews, for it is a. remarkable fact. that people of that class in the East End. will not give up one of their number .to Gentile jus--lice. "I will only add that when the individual whom we suspected was caged in an asvlmn, tho • only person who had ever had a good view of the murderer at once identified him, bnt when he learned that the suspect was _ a fellow •Tew he declined to swear to him." • y ANOTHER STORY. Sir. Kebbell, a'lawyer, who, it is said,, on one occasion defended "Jack the Ripper," tho Whitecha'pel murderer, wrote to the "Pall. Mall Gazette" a few months ago stating that he believed the murderer died in prison while undergoing a sentence o£ ten years' penal .servitude. He was an Irishman, and had,.been originally educated ' for tho medical profession. - ■