Horrible Discovery.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 6, Issue 40, 25 June 1895, Page 3

Horrible Discovery.

Dr Howard, a London physician of considerable prominence, declared recently to a San Francisco gentleman, whose guest»he was, that the identity of " Jack the Ripper " was no longer a mystery among the scientific men of London and Scotland lard. He said that the assassin was a medical man of high standing and extensive practice. Shortly before the beginning of the Whitechapel murders he developed a peculiar mania—an unnatural pleasure in causing pain. When the Whitechapel murders filled London with horror the suspicions of the wife were aroused, and, as one assassination succeeded another, she noted that at the period when these murders were supposed to have been committed her husband was invariably absent from home. At last she went to a few of her husband's medical friends and asked their advice and assistance, They called the Scotland Yard force to assist them, and they soon had a complete chain of evidence pointing to the doctor as the author of the murders. When the story was told him he declared it was impossible, but confessed that of late years there were gaps in the days of which he possibly had no recollection. He said he had awakened in his room, as if from a stupor, and found blood upon his boots and stains of blood upon his hands. The necessary papers were made out, and the irresponsible murderer was committed to an insane asylum. In a month or so he lost all semblance of sanity, and is now the most intractable and dangerous madman confined in the institution.