"Jack the Ripper."
London, Feb. 11. An attempted murder, surrounded by many circumstances similar to the "Jack the Ripper" crimes, was perpetrated this evening at Spitalfields, one of the eastern suburbs of London. The screams of a woman attracted a crowd to a lonely thoroughfare, and the police arriving first upon the scene caught a man red handed in the act of butchenng a woman of the unfortunate class. The victim was not dead when help arrived, but she had been injured in a terrible manner. The man was bending over her, and with a long-bladed knife was hacking the victim's body in a manner which characterised the shocking crimes attributed to " Jack the Ripper. The man was at once taken into custody and gave the name of Grant. He further said he was a ship's fireman. The police have made inquiries, with the result that certain clues they have obtained suggest thatthe prisoner may be "Jack the Ripper." — ______
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 201, 23 February 1895, Page 3
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