GERMAN “ JACK THE RIPPER.”
Epileptic Confesses to Murders of
Little Girls.
Berlin’s mysterious “Jack the Ripper,” whose series of fiendish murders of little girls horrified all Germany last July, has been identified.
He is a youth of 22, an epileptic, named Paul Minow, a printer. Miaow has made a full and detailed confession of his crimes, and having been found mentally responsible, will be detained for trial.
The murderer was recently placed in a lunatic asylum by his mother. One Monday he, wrote to the police that he wished to make an important confession. When confronted with two police inspectors at the asylum he was at first so frightened that he was unable to speak. But when he quietened down he told the police that his conscience had been causing him such anguish for the past three months that he could no longer withhold the truth. Later he accompanied the police to the scenes of his three murders, and gave a graphic description of the manner in which he stabbed each one of his young victims to death. He gave as his motive for the crimes his desire to "humiliate” his mother and sister because they had threatened to place him in a lunatic asylum.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3780, 4 January 1908, Page 3
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205GERMAN “ JACK THE RIPPER.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3780, 4 January 1908, Page 3
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