"JACK THE RIPPER."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 5

"JACK THE RIPPER."

AN IRISHMAN WHO HAD MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED IN GAOL. By Telesraph-Preas Association— Copyright ; x - London, April 17. Mr. Kebbell, a lawyer, who, it is said, on one occasion defended "Jack the Ripper," the. Whitechapel murderer, writes to the "Pall Mall Gazette" stating that he believes the murderer died in prison while undergoing a sentence of ten years' penal'servitude. He was an Irishman, ; and had been originally l educated for the medical profession. ANOTHER STORY MAKES HIM A JEW. SIR R. ANDERSON'S VERSION. It is now 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. There are, however, at least two statements to the effect that it is known. One is Mr. Kebbell's, cabled above, and the other is Sir Robert Aridereon s, told in "Blackwood's Magazine." A fact which does not add to the credit of either statement is that they do not.tally. •Sir Robert Anderson was employed at the Home Office as adviser in matters relating to political crime from ISCB, and from 1888 was head of the Criminal Investigation Department. He was also at one time Assistant Commissioner • of Police of the Metropolis. In ,1901 he reared. It was in his series of articles in "Blackwood's Magazine" that he recently admitted authorship of one of the articles in "The Times" on "Parnellism and Crime." Being at the tiino in Government employ as a crime investigator, it is held that he gave "The Times," for political purposes, the use of State information. The Irish Nationalists are naturally, up in arms, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Asqnith, while refusing to reopen so remote a matter, spoke, scathingly of tho position in which Sir Robt. Anderson stands revealed.

As to "Jack the Ripper," Sir Robt. Anderson states in "Blackwood's". that not only, is the identity of tho "Ripper" known at Scotland Yard, but that if tho police in England had the same powers that are possessed by, the French police he would have been brought to justice. ' "Undiscovered murders are rare in London," says Sir Robert, "aud 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 typo; that he was living in the immediate vicinity of the scenes of the murders; and that if he was not living absolutely alone, bis.people knew of his guilt, and refused to give him up to justice. ' During, ray absence abroad the police had made a honsc-to-house search for him, ■ investigating the case of every man in the district whose circumstances were such that ho could.go and come and get rid of his bloodstains in secret. And tho conclusion we,, came to was that he and his people were' low-class Jews, for. it is a Temarkable fact that peoplo of that class in the East End will not give up one of. their number to Gentile .justice. - I will only add that when the individual whom we suspected was caged in an asylum, the only person who had ever had a Rood view of the murderer at once identified him, but when ho learned that - the suspect was a fellowJew he declined ,to. swear to him,"