"THE RIPPER."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

"THE RIPPER."

| THE MYSTERY KILLER OF J LONDON.

. reign of terror.

Ttgyf many persons in New Zealand ImQ the. ghoulish crimes committed by ftTfof.Tiinim Jack the Ripper in London's WMtechapel district during the years 1887 jZg 1888? They roused the horror of the Sfffiaed world, coming one after the other 2a the mysterious murderer had twelve Rooties to his discredit. 'Strangely enough, all his victims were •nnen of doubtful character and of little ■'Bu22J*ao far as the goods of the world »s concerned. The methods were the . in almost every instance. The throat el euh was cut and the body brutally distend. And always the monster succeeded ii escaping. |v Little wonder that the residents of f i looilaa were in a condition bordering on J Thai such crimes could be comin • civilised community without seemed to be almost impossible. wii «n September 30, 1888, when |fe« batcher had murdered two persons, almost after the other, that the public J%gg|iriioa' reached white heat. It was a— the newspapers dubbed the murderer p& ft. Kpper." '. Theories. ; iWmdf everybody bad a theory. He was M to be, in turn:— .iaothcr Jekyll and Hyde. JtM escaped gorilla. An insane Russian. I rji maniac from Vienna. A ssffsrer from epilepsy. botcher. monomaniac. or whatever he was the Jjiibls crimes continued. Xke famous crimologist, Dr. L. Forbes IMnr, finally undertook a personal He spent the whole night in s|Wtdivd trying to locate the slayer. . ft—tly he inserted an advertisement h a Lfiodon newspaper saying that a (■tasastnmgly opposed to the presence ■ --prata* walkers" in London hoped to get Ms eorrsipondence with some one who jjmH Ska to cooperate in their suppree- ' ' Killer's Glee. had its effect. He received . Ipwpj confessions in the same hand--1 letter expressed glee over the Wi.w going on in the iflj pd stated that the next murder wu be committed on November 9. Wriinttle prophecy was literally and kltefrfalfilled.lt satisfied the .doctor corre *P°nd" pw tntfc the horrible maniac. . °* ** poor girl named KeHey w»h her throat cut and ■ My tatchered. She was discovered on m +mmi floor ot a.fcmement,. and ••vBSEWISj* enrtainless pMeW, could see the mnltilated corpse. ■ .: j ?U*-'e J *way was found a note * PW-1* read: • Ripper will never commit awt BitJa., Amaring as it may jjp " 1 , Promise appears to have been _¥fte heßef that the culprit, from his . *g.# ll| tM > » teMt have been s butcher, g .—. faff Scotland Yard went to 2?« Bnt they had Mruiv labour for their 2 was convinced Jait the Ripper was "a man of gWw aad.ineans 1 a Doctor Jekrll «d fc .grda phenomenon, suffering from a {gg'»gMynis, and who, while his mMs lasted, was bent on eatenninatwomen, hut who, what these ***• bo-om of zmstAss"*' ***