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SPECIAL EDITION.JACK THE_ RIPPER., startling Letters—A Murder Threatened Early in November.r POLICE ON iTHE TRACK.The Supposed Murderer’s Landlord Makes a Statementa* ^ 12th instant the chairman of the ,t .... i: e; Vigilance Committee received a letter to have been sent Vy “ Jack the Ripper,” n ’ to commence operations again on theL. ^.n Saturday morning last Mr.• , t: aca n received a letter in a similar hand-r wh-ch he has handed over to the police.• f,cars the Customs post-mark, and was . j cr. F. lay night.f T'r.c .o'..o*.ng is the letter :l',lt;±r boss—You are one too many for me ..me Whitechapel is too well lt;no{ br.ng a job off on the I8tf ■* fjtsA llt;* do next i°b indoors.—Yours in“Jack the Ripper.”Albert Backert. ffr «chapel has been carefully guarded, and all janected persons are strictly watched.Immediately upon the receipt of Mr. Backert’s vjjgj *e dispatched a representative of The• uttitS Mews and Post to Dr. Forbes Win-sc.v, a; W r.ipole-treet, to learn whether anything ti0 been done by the police . c;ue to the murderer. Ourrew.rded by obtaining additiQnala,j evidence in connection with that gentle* mzi theory of the Whitechapel tragedies. No s-orxr had he explained his business than Dr. \y rXow placed a letter, of which the following a i copy, m his hand :22, Hammersmith-road, Chelsea, October 29.5H—I defy you to find out who has done \vr..:ecbapel murder in the summer—not the last c-e. You hid better look out for yourself or dse lack the R. may do you something in your house ;jC before the end of December. Mind, now, the S:h of November, there maybe another murder,5 look out, old Sir Funk. Tell all London another r-pper open will take place about the 8tb or 9th pgeono, not in Whitechapel, but in London— perhaps in Clapham or the West-end. Write to the Poste Restante, Charing Cross. Address to P. S. R. Lunigi.The handwriting of the letter is cally the same as that of the Forbes Winslow received about In both cases, however, the* evident attempt to disguise the stylet envelope it would, have taken up Dr. Winslow’s idea, and are working at it assiduously. Soon after the matter was placed in the handsof the police, Detective-inspecto? Swansoncalled upon Dr. Winslow and had all the.available material placed before him. Since then further inquiries have been made of persons who had given information leading to the formation of Ihe theory, and the result has been that a greet deal of additional evidence has been obtained. The statement made to the police, by the man who origi-ml v gave the clue to Dr.. Winslow runs as foblows:‘ In April, 1885, my wife and myself were living in—” (Here a house in the neighbourhood of Pmsbury is mentioned. )”The upper pert of our housecalled upon us. sitting room, and business and might stay a tew months or pert year. He said that before he came 1be had occupied * _Bu Paul’s During bis residence with r pied himself in writing on religious iconnected with morality.filled up with this material Whenever he went out of doors he wore e different suit of clothes from what he did the day before. He had eight or nine suits of dothes and the skate number of different hats. He kept very late hoars, and whenever he evening his entrance was, at which hour theboots (ordinary Canadian snow shoes) which used to deaden the sound. On August 7, the date of one of the murders, my wife was in the country, and in her absence her sister attended to the household matters. She was expected home, however, that evening, and we all remained up till 4 lodger returned, stating that stolen in Bishopsgate-street ; this proved to be false. His shirt hanging up in his re having washed them himself, and the stain of blood was found on the bed. A few days after tfiis he leu the house with . the stated view of returning to Canada. He did not, how-ptung into a tramcar iv.th us, we all sound mind,1 as a person lt;the women of the streets, who, he frequentlysaid, ought to be all drowned. He said he was greatly impressed with the amount of immorality m London, and stated that a number of immoral women walked up and down SL Paul’s Churchyard during the service, which he at-ended every Sunday morning. He specially drew mention to the women of the East-end of London, he said, ought to be all lulled. At night he * 'ui talk and moan to liimsdf. One day he said,' ihvscal y I am a very weak man, hut the amount o! my will power is so great that I tm able oul v t several men.” Frequently on his re-turn to the house he would throw himself down oqLe iofa and groan. Hein a chest of drawersthree loaded revolvers, a taucn by surprise by hs door, rush anc chest of drawers. While he the following post card came one day for Mm, S;r-ed, Dodger1’: “We can’t get through it, can ou give us any help *’ ?i-T Winslow's idea is that there are twq, men ^■giged in the terrible work, and that one isa^ at the instigation of a lad/ feo* ‘he Surrey side . of the water.. The 01 the suspected man was, it it ft every way timilaf to that ISA* to tfai pdUoe *'Ened and to that recently'eceived by Dr. Winslow, la height the Maflw* * ever five feet He walks i* a bMKfigf pttfcfe* V:,h h!! fe« wide apart, and has apaaOafHi* hair i* bleak, fa* aam-rmiwd hi* --lt;%* ud awawho had M*w*d hlm^aa fcoailwi' Goodgate-street the suspecte? man aafaed’her to^havea drink, bring** mt first one sovereign, aad then two sovereigns, whh the view of tempting her to go with hint When living in Finsbury out about eight m the evening, earn a little black bag.Dr. Winslow declined to give the neme and address of the landlord of the where the supposed murderer lived, or the name and address of the woman in Bishopsgate. Our representative is making further inquiries with the object of instituting comparisons of the handwriting of th? letters sent respectively 'o Me. Backart and to Dr. Winslow.TO “ THE EVENING NEWS AND POST. m Sir—On behalf of my client, the victim of the “ extraordinary statement ” at Bow-strect on Saturday last, may I. through, you, ask your readers to suspend their judgment upon the matter until the hearing of the summons, returnable on Saturday next; then to discover that the “ statement, so far as my client is concerned, is purely imaginary? My client is a member of a respectable family, and the publication of this
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London Evening News and Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Oct 28, 1889
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