Jack the Kipper.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1372, 13 August 1895, Page 3

Jack the Kipper.

Dr Howard, a London physician of considerable prominence, declared recently to a San i'rancisco gentleman, whose guest he was, that the identity of u Jack the Ripper " was no longer a mystery among the scientific men of London and Scotland Yard. He said that the assassin was a medical man of high standing and extensive practice. Shortly before the beginning of the Whuechapel murders he developed a peculiar mania—an unnatural pleasure in causing pain. When the Whitechapel rauiders filled London with horror the suspicions- of his wife were aroused, and as one assassination succeeded another, she noted that at that period, when these murders were supposed to .committed, her husband was Invariably .absent from bocpe. At last she went to a tew of Ber

husband's medical friends and asked their advice and assistance. They called the Scotland Yard force to assist them, and they soon had a complete chain of evidence poititing to the doctor as the author of the murders When ' the' Story was told him he declared •it was impossible; but confessed that of late years there were gaps in the days of which he possibly had no recollection. He said; he had awakened in his room as if from a stupor, and found blood upon his boots, and stains of blood upon his hands. The necessary papers were made but, and the irresponsible murderer was committed to an insaue asylum. In a month or so he lost all semblance of sanity, and is how the most intractable and dangerous madman confined in the institution.