The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-19
LONDON'S PUZZLE.
Views Of Leading Englishmen On
Jack the Ripper.
THE FATE OF HOGAN, AERONOUT.
Lost in the Sea-Children PoisOned-The
Whitechapel vietim-A Gang of COun-
terfeiters-LOwry After Them.
[special to THE Misunderstanding Dispatch

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
LONDON, July 1S.-[By special cable
to the New York Herald. Mr.. Robert
Buchanan, while engaged at rehearsal at
the Haymarket theatre, said: Il do not
think Jack the Ripper committed the muir
der; it seems to lack the atrocious skill
displayed by him; there is none of the
really distinctive handiwork OF the original
dend. He is probably an imitator, some
weak Drained creature rendered crazy by
gloating over the details of the horrible
affairs of last year. OF course that is very
loose guess work. but the evidence at
present is so slight"
Mr. Buchanan had not heard the latest
details when he spoke.
Mr.. George Moore was engaged in cor
rectiug the manuscript of his forthcoming
novel. He thought the murderer to be
lack Could he imaginea motivel every
easily. | have made up a theory almost
from the first, and l still believe in it. The
absence of the motives which generally lie
at the root of a murder is very remarkable,
for these crimes, are.n0t committed for gain;
that at least is certain. They are not,
think committed out of revenge. My the
DRY is that they are the work of some weak
Drained zealot Of the purity class. Perhaps
this unspeakable wretch thinks that by
creating panic among the poor women Of
the class he preys on, he may brighten them
from their profession. II is an insane idea,
of course, but a conceivable one. He is the
loathsome outcome of the puritanism of the
day. That is my idea"
DR.. Wells, the author of Fatal Physic, -
thought that the murderer was Jack; he
could not believe there were two such
hunters
The novelist, James Payn, had no theory.
To have theory IN such case was a pc
liceman's duty.
st is Obvious said Mr. Walter Besant,
that he is a criminal of a low class. That,
| think, is proved by the status of his vic
Tins 1t is also obvious that he has at least
a rough and ready knowledge of anatomy !;
also. he would seem TO be a bird of passage
It's hardly conceivable that with that hOr-
r;bie lust Of blood constantly tOrturing him
ana squirting him on to commit fresh out
RACES, he would have remained in London
50 long without it mastering him. Here,
then, we have three considerations: low
mess OF class, knowledge of anatomy and
nOmadic life. These traits would be I'M
tried in a ships butcher. Not many ships
carry live cattle for slaughter nowadays.
aad the great INES are all provided with
ice rooms: b. t tlere are still to be found
ships without these cOnYeniences. nave
kElduC Il NbNd6O Ill Oul1 LLlt SdfJt III IL snip
on which we slaughtered our cattle for the
table.
~ doctor who is friend of mine made
asuggestion at the time when Jack the
Ripper was busy in Whitechapel last year
chat III a certain class of disorders which
sometimes turns to homicide, the mania for
It is especially directed against women. and
it might be worth while to make inquiries
at the hospitals as to whether any man
with symptoms of such a disorder was
discharged at about that daten
MIR. Henry Labouchere said: "It does not
seem possible to form a theory which will
hold water. l have seen and heard a score
but never one without hole in it. In fact
most of them were all holes.
Gas to whether Jack the Ripper is one
person or more; well, even that is doubt
fuI l should say that he lives or they live
at a distance from Whitechapel. The man
must have some hiding place IN which to
conceal his clothes, which can hardly es-
cape the stains of blood. In that district
everybody would see such stains, and be so
IN the qui vive that he could not have
found such secresy as was needful.
is he mad Well, no. I should say he
was conspicuously sane. I have seen
something of mad people, ard they all talk;
they can't keep a secret. OF course this
man has very particular reasons for keep
ing his tongue between his teeth. If he
we're caught, Nhltechapel mob would
make short work of him. But still his
silence speaks for his sanity.
'iThen, again, he is clever enough to
laugh at the police, though that doesn't
take any great amount of genius. The
police have bungled the affair terribly, but
1 don't see anything apart from the indi-
vidpal points of the case which incline me
- think the man IS insane, or why muir
derer, even such a murderer, need be mad.
- liza Othnr Tho Fol-
committed the first murder, perhaps, if he
only knew It. from some personal motive.
he was not caught, the taste developed,
and he went ON