PANIC-STRICKEN CITY
‘JACK THE RIPPER’ CRIMES MANY SINISTER RUMORS BERLIN, Nov. 12. According to a report from Dusseldorf, Baron Von Zigo.su, chief of the Dussoldonf police, declares: “I cannot sloop at. night. I awake from a nightmare in which 1 think I am the ‘Ripper’ in tho act of committing a horrible murder.”
Baron Von Zigesa’s state of mind is characteristic of the panic-stricken city. Beneath outward calm Dus-sel-dorf is in a frenzy of hysterical terror, [f a child is 1() minutes late, the mother telephones the over-worked police, imploring them to send a .search party. Newspaper offices are besciged all day by clues. Hundreds of sinister rumors an- current that, the bodies of children and girls have been found. Half-demented men give themselves up to the police accusing themselves of being the “Ripper,” but they are always completely .innocent. Meantime the “Ripper” with a brazen love for sensation, which is the main trait of his mania, proclaims in a second letter to a newspaper that he will surrender to the police when his victims number 30.
To-day the police began digging in the field indicated in the “Ripper’s” ma;p. They did not find a body, but located a number of articles, which are considered important.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17108, 14 November 1929, Page 7
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