“JACK THE RIPPER.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 831, 26 April 1910, Page 4

“JACK THE RIPPER.”

SIR ROBERT ANDERSON SAYS. HIS IDENTITY WAS KNOWN. It is more than twenty years since the “Jack the Ripper” scares thrilled London, and ever since then the general public has believed that the identity of the murderer was never known. This, however, is not the case. Sir Robert Anderson, K.C.8., in the course of the series of articles now appearing in Blackwood’s Magazine states emphatically that not only is the identity of the “ Ripper ” known at Scotland Yard, but that if the police in England had the same powers that are possessed by the French police be would have been brought to justice. “Undiscovered murders are rare in Loudon,” says Sir Robert, “and the ‘Jack the Ripper’ crimes are not within that category. “One did not need to be a Sherlock Holmes to discover that the criminal was a sexual maniac of a virulent type ; that he was living in the immediate vicinity of the scenes of the murders ; and that if he was not living absolutely alone, his people knew of his gudt, and refused to give him up to justice.

“ During my absence abroad the police had made a house-to-house search for him, investigating the case of every man in the district whose circumstances were such that he could go and come and get rid of the 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 justice. “ L will only add that when the iud' —‘dual whom —e suspected was aged in an n, the only person who had ever had a good view of the murderer at once identified him, but when he learned that the suspect was a fellow Jew he declined to swear to him.”