BRAZEN EFFRONTERY

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 November 1929, Page 5

BRAZEN EFFRONTERY

THE RIPPER SAYS FAREWELL

WOMAN THEORY ABANDONED. REWARD 'OUT FOR CAPTURE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) BERLIN, Nov. 14. A conference of police chiefs tit Dusseklorf has rejected the theory that “Jack the Ripper,” who has already claimed 20 victims, is a woman. Medical experts confirmed the original belief that the peculiar atrociousness of the murders pointed to the Ripper being a man. All Germany is now aroused. The •Prussian Ministry of the Interior has offered a reward of £BOO for The Ripper, dead or alive. With characteristic effrontery The Ripper has again sent a letter to a Dussehlorf newspaper. “Farewell Dusseklorf; you will never get mo, hut go on digging,” he says. The letter avas apparently posted on the Belgo-German frontier.

A hat and handbag found by diggers to-day at a spot indicated in a letter from* The Ripper, have been identified as belonging to a servant girl who has been missing since August 11. Another discovery to-day was a piece of paper pinned to a tree near where the digging was done, bearing a great letter P through Avhich runs a cross and an arrow. The paper is identical with that used in The Ripper’s letters.