JACK THE RIPPER.
CAUGHT IN TIIE ACT. An attempted murder, surrounded many circumstances similai to tho 'Jack the Ripper ' crimes, was perpetrated recently at Spita l fields, one of tho eastern suburbs of London. Tho screams of a woman attracted a crowd to a lonely thoroughfare, and the police airiving first upon the teeno caught a man red-handed in the act of butchering a woman of the unfortunate class. The unfortunate \ictim was not dead when help arrived, but she had been injured in a terrible manner. The man was bonding over her prostrate body, and with a long bladed knife was hacking tho victim's body in a manner which characterised the shocking' crimes attributed to ' Jack tho Kipper.' The man was at once taken into custodj'. and gave the name of Grant. Ho further said lie was a ship's fireman. The police have made inquiries, with the result that certain clues they havo obtained suggest that the prisoner may be 'Jack he Ripper.'
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 119, 20 March 1895, Page 3
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