The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-17
THE RIPPER FOUND.
Whitechapel Demon Captured
at Last in Australia.
THREE MORE VICTIMS DUG UP.
Justly Celebrated Murderer Thought
to Be Mysterious Man Named Will
Jams, Who Lived at Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL, March 16.-The police have
been pursuing their inquiry into the dis
appearance of a woman and children
who formerly lived at Rainhiil, part OF
Liverpool. The inquiry is stated to be IN
connection with the arrest at Melbourne,
Australia, of a man named Williams,
charged with numbering the woman. This
morning the hearthstone of the house
where he formerly lived was raised, and
the bodies of the woman and three chill
dren, partly covered with quicklime, were
unearthed. A plausible theory has
sprung from the discoveries. The further
the affair is Investigated the stronger
grows the belief that Williams is none
other than the world known "Jack
the Ripper" Williams, while re-
siding at Liverpool, made fire.
quent visits to London. The police
traced his movements between the two
places, and it has been found that his
visits to London correspond with the
times that the unfortunate women in the
Whitechapel district were found with their
threats cut and their bodies mutilated in
the shocking manner which characterized
the crimes of Jack, the Ripper" He re-
sembles the description given to the police
ofth appearance of the man seen in the
company OF the several unfortunate
women whose bodies were subsequently
found lying in pools of blood in the streets
of Whitechapel. This description TALES
exactly with the appearance of Williams
IS given by people of Liverpool who were
well acquainted with him.
The question of who Williams really is
and how he lived remains a mystery.
When he first came to Ralnhill he was
hail fellow, well met with the inhabi-
tants, but never gave an inkling of his
personal history. After he rented the
villa an unknown woman with children
arrived. Nobody saw them arrive or de-
part. About the same time another
woman, who he said was his sister,
visited at the hotel. She was seen
twice, then also vanished. After being
absent from the hotel all day he used to
frequently return covered with dirt,
explaining his dirty appearance by saying
he had been putting new floors in house.
After living at the villa few days he re-
turned, saying that he could not sleep
there, that his sister and her children had
gone away and his plans were unsettled.
Search for victims will be continued in
other rooms tomorrow. The brutality of
the murderer suggests the ferocity of Jack
the Ripper.
Williams was concerned in an attempt
to obtain heavy damages for the injury of
worthless picture in transit from Lon
don to st. Helena, and also unsuccessfully
tried to obtain introduction into good
society.
THE first of the series OF Jack the Ripper
cimes was discovered April 8, 1888, in an alley
Dab n IT
was an abandoned woman of the lowest class,
Emma E. Smith by namo, and IS years old. The
body was frightfully mutilated. Four months
later, on August 2, the body of Martha 7.
Abrams, IS years old, woman of the same class,
was found in the entrance OF low tenement in
Commercial street, Spitalields. There were the
same Characteristic marks of the assassin's
work. At the end of the same month the third
victim, Mary Ann Nichols was killed in Bucks
row. Whitechapel. The ripper was becoming
experienced and holder. He chalked upon the
wall by the side OF the victim peculiar mark,
and wrote that he intended to go on
with his bloody work until fifteen had
been butchered, when he would give himself
up. Eight days later he killed Annie Chapman,
absolute woman of AZ years, in Hamburg street,
spitalields, and again, after disembowelling
bis victim, he left his chalk sign and carried
away small portion of the body. Later in the
month, on the same night, September 80, he
tiaughtered two women, Elizabeth Stride, whose
body was found in Berner street, Whitechapel,
and Catharine Eddowes, whose body lay in
Nitre square, Aldgate. By this time the women
Of the Sums had become panic stricken. This
TACT probably compelled the murderer to
pend his work for a time. womans body,
never identified, was found two days later, but
the mutations were probably not the work
OF the Ripper. On November 9, undoubt-
edly his handwork, was discovered in
Millers court, Dorset street, the victim being
Mary Jane Kelly Late in December the
butchered body of Maud Millet was found in
yard OF High street, Poplar. Other crimes
within few months were popularity credited to
the same bloody hand, including the murder of
Alice Mckenzie in Castle alley, Whitechapel,
on July H. 1882 and that of Elizabeth Jackson,
found in the Thames on June A. 1889 No accu-
rate description of the murderer was ever OBJ
tained by the London police. Two or three
descriptions were published, but they applied to
persons under suspicion against whom no
proof was obtained. 1t has always been the pop
uar belief in London that the criminal is
sailor who has insane thirst for blood. The
police were powerless from first to last, They
did not succeed in gaining even good clue.l