SINGULAR STORY FROM RUSSIA.
The Moscow newspaper, the tfovosti, claims the Whitechapei murderer as a Russian. It says :—": — " He was born at Tiraspol, in South Russia, in 1847, and graduated at the Odessa Univerai f y. After 1870 he became a fanatical anarchist and emigrated to Paris, where he went out of hia miodt His monomania was tbat fallen women could only be redeemed and got to heaven if tbey were murdered. This led him to perpetrate a number of murders in Paris. The Paris police arrested him, but on discovering that he was a lunatic tbey shut him up in an aoylum. That was sixteen years ago. fie was kept there until a short time prior to the first murder in London, when he was released as cured. He went to London, and there lodged with different compatriot refuges until tbe first woman was assassinated >v Whitechapei, since which time his friends have not seen him."
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West Coast Times, Issue 7300, 22 January 1889, Page 4
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157SINGULAR STORY FROM RUSSIA. West Coast Times, Issue 7300, 22 January 1889, Page 4
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