LAWYER’S BIG THRILL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22963, 19 August 1936, Page 18

LAWYER’S BIG THRILL

“JACK THE RIPPER” SCARE During a dense fog in the Plast End of London a tall, sinister-looking man asked in nervous tones to be directed to Stepney. An hour or two later the mutilated body of a woman was found in an alley-way nearby. Her death remains a mystery. Mr George Hay Young, the lawyer who died recently at his home in Croydon, aged 79, often described this incident as the most exciting in his career, for he claimed that the tall stranger he had directed was no other than the notorious “Jack the Ripper.” So convinced was Mr Young of the man’s identity that he told the police of his encounter, and gave them a description of the man. Mr Young, who retired from practice in 1934, after 55 years of police court work, was known by East End Londoners as “the Attorney-general of Thames Police Court.” Nobody knew the East End and its populace better, and when Mr Young retired Mr Barrington Ward, K.C., magistrate at Thames Police *ourt, said, “Mr

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