"JACK THE RIPPER."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 92, 27 July 1910, Page 6

"JACK THE RIPPER."

, .Much excitement was oaiused bv the murder and brutal mutilation of unfortunate women in Whitechapel at different times during 1888 and 188!). The evidence showed that the mwrderer possessed surgical knowledge, Ins object being to get possession of certain organs. On scraps of paper attached to the clothes of the victims the words "Jack the Ripper" were scrawled. Though the police could never sheet the crimes home to him, it was felt certain that the man alluded to in the recent cables, and wiho was sentenced to penal servitude for another offence,, was no other than this notorious murderer. Sir Robert Anderson, whose name is now very prominent in England owing to 'his alleged connection with the authorship j of certain articles in the Times, including those dealing with "Parnellism and Crime" (published in 1887), and who was head of the -Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the "Jaek-the-Ripper" murders in 1888, 1889 and I Sill, makes this statement in his official recollections in this month's Blackwood's Magazine: —"Having regard to the interest attaching to this case, I should almost ibe tempted to disclose the identity of the murderer. But no public benefit wtould result from such a course,., and the traditions of my old department would suffer. I will on'lv add that when the individual whom we suspected was caged in an asylum, 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 fel-low-countryman he declined to swear to him."