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SPECIAL EDITION.JACK THE_ RIPPER.} Startling Letters—A Murder Threatened Early in November.POLICE ON ^THE TRACK.Xhe Supposed Murderer’s Landlord Makes a Statement;:.e 12th instant the chairman of the : a: el Vigilance Committee received a letter ...to have been sent Vy “ Jack the Ripper,” ng to commence operations again on the c n Saturday morning last Mr. *'* rt a’a n received a letter in a similar hand* vAh-ch he has handed over to the police, i - \ Ypar • -v-ars the Customs post-mark, and was . c w Fr day night.The ;oTo.'-.ng is the letter :Tcir Boss—You are one too many for me . -..me Whitechapel is too well watched. I f u.~ not br.ng a job off on the 18th. However, r.-.cr.d to do the next job indoors.—Yours in “Jack the Ripper.”Albert Backert. f, . teehapel has been carefully guarded, and all .jilted persons are strictly watched.Immediately upon the receipt of Mr. Backert’s »e dispatched a representative of The i ais1 ng News and Post to Dr. Forbes Win-s c.v. a; W ropole-treet, to learn whether anything ijT txen done by the police concerning his• cl-e ’ to the murderer. Our representative was r\A.rded by obtaining additional informationevidence in connection with that gentle* runi theory of the Whitechapel tragedies. No gpasgf had he explained his business than Dr.placed a letter, of which the following j. i copy, in his hand :22, Hammersmith-road, Chelsea, October 29.:r-I defy you to find out who has done ;he Whitechapel murder inthe summer—not the last c-e. You bad better look out for yourself or else lack the R. may do you something in your house ye, before the end of December. Mind, now, the 9th of November, there maybe another murder,lt; look out, old Sir Funk. Tell all London another r pper open will take place about the 8tb or 9th rrc ; mo, not in Whitechapel, but in London— perhaps in Clapham or the West-cnd. Write to the Poste Restante, Charing Cross. Address to P, S. R. Lunigi.The handwriting of the letter is almost identically the same as that of the communication Dr. Forbes Winslow received about a fortnight ago. Is both cases, however, there is an evident attempt to disguise the style. From the envelope it would seem that this last communicator. had been posted at Famborough.The police, it is understood, have taken up Dr. Winslow’s idea, and are working at it assiduously. Soon after the matter was placed in the hands of the police, Deteetive-inspecto? Swanson called upon Dr. Winslow and had all the.available material placed before him. Since then father inquiries have been made of persons who had given information leading to the formation of \he theory, and the result has been that a great deal of additional evidence has been obtained. The statement made to the police, by the man who original iy gave the clue to Dr.. Winslow runs as follows :‘ In April, 1888, my wife and myself were living in — ” (Here a house in the neighbourhood of Finsbury is mentioned. )”The upper part of our house was let to various gentlemen, and in answer to an advertisement in the newspapers a gentleman niled upon us. He took a Urge bed-sittmg room, and said that he was over here on business and might stay a tew months or perhaps a year. He said that before he came 16 us be had occupied rooms in the neighbourhood of Bu Paul’s During bis residence with me be oceu-pied himself in writing on religious matters connected with morality. Sometimes as many as sixty sheets of foolscap pages were filled up with this material Whenever hewent out of door* be wore a different suit of clothes from what he did the day before. He had eight or nine suits of clothes and the same number of different hats. He kept very late hours, and whenever he returned in the evening his entrance was quite noiseless. He had three pairs of india-rubber boots (ordinary Canadian snow shoes) which used to deaden the sound. On August 7, the date of one of the murders, my wife was i» 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 a.m., at which hour the lodger returned, stating that his watch bad been stolen in Bishopsgate-street ; but on investigation this proved to be false. His shirt. was found hanging up in his room with the cuffs wished, having washed them himself, and the stain of blood was found on the bed. A few days after (Bis be leu the house with . the stated view or returning to Canada. He did not, how-ever, so to Canada, as be was Men getting mto a tramcar in September, 1886L Whilst w.th us, we all regarded him as a person of un-icund mind, especially on subjects respecting the women of the streets, who, he frequently said, ought to be all drowned. He said he was greatly impressed with the amount of immorality in London, and stated that a number of immoral women walked up and down St. Paul’s Churchyard during the service, which he at* enied every Sunday morning. He specially drew attention to the women of the East-cnd of London, »bo, he said, ought to be all killed. At night be W'. ui: talk and moan to himself. One day he said, i'hysically I am a very weak man, hut the a our.t ol my will power is so great that 1 am able tc oul v t several men.” Frequently on his return to the house he would throw himself down oq lr- ^fa and groan. He kept concealedm a chest of drawers in bis room three loaded revolvers, and would, if taken by surprise by anyone knocking atdoor, rush and pta£e hJa back against this :hest of drawers. While be rwidetf in the bouse the following post card came one day for Mm, tgr.ed, Dodger*’: “We can’t get through it, can ou give us any help ” ?L’r Winslow’s idea is that there are twq. men ^•gaged m the terrible work, and that one is^ane, and the other is either an advuilthmr Orn*ne Part of the htfomiatied ttdthtned So the itxjve statement was given to the peUee at the tlrne wh«n the informant lived ib Fh»btt*y, *bd, curiously enough, the detectives came near to foe W to make inquiries about the very same *an «t the instigation of a lady ftm «« Surrey side . o{ the waMr.~ The Writing 0! the suspected man was, it it stated, 11 every way Similar to that Sttt «0 tW pttfoe ^ed *' Jaek the Ripper,*’ and to tlttt motif reived by Dr. Winslow. In height foe Map#** over five feet. Ha wails i* a tttttfiAg JMMfcfe* Mh his feet wide apart, aodhas apunfoar Ml-*: 5S at the knees. His hair is Utah, hfc ***-‘lexion dark, arid he has a*wrd and moustache, giving' fot ftMh unshaven. Ha bm m *h-ch is thought, ** fotof. te house in Fiesbaty, mT *«»fic,al flowers aodWtlit *cre fotrad in his mm VO. hV'August Uk a rnmrnm-.‘-ondon wasparticularraised hit and wev|d-''1|a manWho had followed him an jfojealT* Good morning.** On meeting the wemaa In Bishops* gate-street the suspected man asked her to have a drink, bringing out first one sovereign, and then two sovereigns, whh the view of templing her to go with him. When living in Finsbury he often went out about eight in the evening, carrying with him a little black bag.Dr. Winslow declined to give our representative the name and address of the landlord of the house where the supposed murderer lived, or the name and address of the woman in Bishopsgate. Our representative is making further inquiries with the otqect of instituting comparisons of the handwriting of thS letters sent respectively ’o Me. Backurt and to Dr. Winslow. lt;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 sensational ex parte statement has caused them much paia and damage.—1 am, c,I. BANKS PITTMAN.
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London Evening News and Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Oct 28, 1889
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