THE "RIPPER MURDERS."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 April 1910, Page 3

THE "RIPPER MURDERS."

A LONDON SENSATION. [nr EIiKCTItIO TEIiEGJtAPH--COPYTUGHT.] iPBIt I'll BBS (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.; LONDON, April 17. Mr Kebbell, Iho lawyer, who defended "Jack the. Ripper," the Whitechapel murderer, writes to the "hill Mall Gmctto" saying that he believes he died of poison while undergoing a decade of penal servitude. He. was, says Mr Kebbell, r.iii Irishiinan, nucl was originally educated for the medical profession. [Tho "Jack tho Ripper" murderers occurred, some twenty years ago, and were characterised, by fierce brutality. The' victims belonged to the lowest order of society. Although the utmost vigilance was maintained by tho Condon police, the perpetrator of these murders was never caught, though it is held ho was convicted under another lwuno some ywivs later for grave offences. At the time of the- outrages it was common' belief that the murderer was a mod'icfll student, but this in the fust time an nuthoratntive statement has been given on the subject. Whitechapel is a bcroiigh in the East End of L::.)iiloii, with a population of 70,000, of whom 85 per cent, are foreign Jews.]