“JACK THE RIPPER.”

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1264, 21 May 1896, Page 39

“JACK THE RIPPER.”

A Dalziel’s telegram from San Francisco says: —A woman, named "Wilson, reported to tho police on Sunday morning that a. man whom she met in tho street and accompanied home, had attempted to strangle her with a knotted cloth, which ho tied round her neck. After he thought he had her securely bound, the man told her ho was “Jack llie Ripper,” and was known also as “Jack the Strangler,” and added that he told all his victims this before killing (hem. He then recited the murders he had committed in London and in tho United States during the past few years, but before lie bad added to tho list by the commission of another crime, Wilson, who is a strong, muscular woman, grappled with him and succeeded in freeing herself. The mail then tied. Wilson describes |tho would-be murderer as a man of about 40 years of ago, of medium height, aud with a blonde moustache. Ho is dressed in an Englishmade suit, light overcoat, and high hat, and wears diamond studs and kid gloves. From the brief details given by the woman Wilson, tho police are able to identify tho man as a person who is “ wanted ” for no less than nine murders committed in tho United States within the last two years. All the crimes bear a strong resemblance in tho manner of their execution. Tho fiend’s method was to tie a knotted handkerchief so tightly around tho neck of his victim that the double knot sank deep into the flesh, and the unhappy being died of strangulation. Having got through with his horrible human butchery in London, his first murder in Am tic, •■m

have been committed at New V i k .m May 30, 189 I; then followed another at Buffalo on Juno 30. The third was at Cincinnati on July 30, fourth at Denver on September 30, and the fifth on October 30. Changing his date of the month, tho fiend committed his sixth murder at Denver on November 13, his seventh at San Francisco on December 18, and id’s eighth and ninth in the same oily on February 13 and March 13 respectively. Friday’s attempt on the woman V' iison was apparently intended to open a new series. The description given of the man’s appearance by those who have seen him in tho company of one or more of his victims in Denver agrees with that given by tho woman Wilson. The San Francisco police eeem to believe that the murderer is tho original “ Jack the Ripper.”