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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 233, 11 December 1888, Page 3

At the Bradford Borough Court on a late Sa’urday, a respectable-looking young woman, named Maria Coroner, twenty-one years of age, employed in a mantlemaker’s es ablishment, was brought up on a charge of having “ written several letters tending to cause a breach of the peace.” These letters, as stated by the chief constable, purported to be written by “Jack the Ripper,” whose object in visiting Bradford, as was stated, was to do a little business before starting for some other place on the same errand. She had written two letters of this character, as she admitted when apprehended, one being addressed to the ch ef constable and the other to a local newspaper. On searching the girl’s lodgings the police found copies of the letters. The prisoner excused her foolish conduct on the ground that “ she had done it in a joke. ” She was stated to be a very respectable young woman. The prisoner was remanded, the Bench declining to accept bail. Ekatene, better known as Grand Idea, by Edward James, met with an accident whilst exercising and so injured one of his fore legs that it is most unlikely he will ever race again. This horss bad a big reputation in private trials, but in public his performanees were most disappointing.