The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-14
vNuw JACK tbs RIPPER.
. vbitechapel Woman Says That He
Lodged in Her House
From the New York Times.

Lodged IN Her house.
From, the Ne1 York Times.
,-,ox Oct. IA sensation OF the most
o-o,o1s proportions has been caused here
- statement made to-day by lodging
tsaner who is located in the Wolfe
o., district. and claimed that it was az
-FLo,,sa that Jack the Ripper lived during
&c .c,,inary escapades thereabouts. The
LIS 80, Who Keeps the house came TO Mr..
NO WIZ. T2ackerr. the chairman OF the Wig
A.! H. COMMITTEES, and in the presence OF
ll1l-N,al witnesses told her story, and after
ward swore 20 IL .,s,,ootoI,,a ,,o--o,,
,-,,a-vn 20 the police to bs quiet and con-
lifting a thoroughly respectable place,
'lls mat during the period marked by the
say Saay.,I soI murders of the ripper young
1 ooIled at her house and engaged bed
10 He stated to her, in reply to her
"al,;ons as TO his business and his ability
ques-- Tor the accommodations, that he had
70 " - e sea M to the time of his coming
80 and that now he did not work at all,
80 ,ras in receipt of an allowance from his
t ~ If 81 per week, and that his brother,
who was a physician, gave MN a Iurther
aIioUance of trIfie over this amount.
Win he took possession of the apart
- tba woman noticed that he had great
n-'an+itv of clothing of all kinds, including
q.;n1 breaches. as well as several re-
roIvars guns and many other articles not
'ftso fo1nd In the outfit Of a workingman.
Ie asked for door key. which was given
Nm and she noticed that he went out and
I'm. .an,a in at unusual and irregular hours Of
Ine night.
ally until the afternoon, and would rise
shnnt o'clock and leave the house. The
jandlsdv could not say at what time he re-
s,rna1 because she never CHANGED TO see
Nm when he was re-entering the house.
What first excited her suspicion that
,bera was something unusual about him was
he bloody condition In which she often
,1nrd the towels sent to his room. She
sNaIlv smoke to the man of this, and remon-
rated with him for soiling the articles in
-cb a manner. and asked what had caused
rch Drofusion OF blood.
He endeavored to explain the thing away
Nv saving that he was very fond of paint
i;r and in his preparations he was in the
S[bit of wiping his brushes on the towels.
This probably stained them so as to give
Me- impression that it was blood.
Further than this the woman stated that
ne knows from her own knowledge that he
ant several persons pieces of what ap-
,eared to be raw liver. One afternoon she
sppeped in his room for the purpose of at
ending to some of her household duties
and there she saw him with newspaper
sread out upon his table and upon it a
Lrre piece Of raw meat, which she at a
distance took to be liver.
She asked him what it was and where it
came from, aud he replied that it was g
niece Of frozen mutton that had been given
him by a friend who was employed on a
Loaf that came from New Zealand.
The reasonable element in this which
served to make the wo nan blind to what
chunks the meat might really be lies in the
fact that most of her dodgers, this young
man among them, prepared their meals IN
their own rooms.
Upon another occasion, somewhat later
than this, she saw the man do up piece of
this meat in a small box, tie it securely, and
address it to the chairman of the vigilance
committee and leave the house with it
under his arm She never saw it or the
box afterward. Further, even than this, the
woman afirms that she saw the man place
small bits Of flesh in envelopes, which he
addressed to different news agencies and
papers, and, also, to prominent members of
TIE police.
With great apparent careessness he left
these envelopes and their contents in the
room when he vacated it, and the woman,
upon discovering them when cleaning the
apartment after he had given it up, threw
them into the dust bin.
On TWO occasions he brought home with
him blood-stained aprons, which he gave to
her, and which she still has and is ready to
turn over to the police, believing now that
they belonged to two of his victims. She
ays that he always seemed 70 have ample
money and spent it with degree of lavish
ness not often met 10 that locality On the
morning Of the Castle Alley murder, which
the last Jack has thus far committed, her
Mger left and has not yet returned.
In addition to the envelopes that he left
behind him, the woman found in mis- closet a
FaIr OF SILENT shoes, several bags, aud a
long overcoat, all of which she asserts are
bood-stsined in almost every part.
Inc woman gives es her reason for not
Speaking earlier the fact that she did not
suspect the identity of the ma until after
lie mad got beyond her reach. and then she
feared to go to the police. But the secret
has 50 weighed upon her mind that she
could keep it no longer.