Evening star., 1894-12-15
Now an Inmate Of an Insane Asylum
in London.
THE WORK OF 4 MONOMANIAC
The Story Of His Crimes and His
Apprehension.
HIS ENTITY KNOW N
From the Philadelphia Press.

| speculation as to when he may be appre-
hended. when he may reappear in his for
mer field of industry, whether the stranger
| Of Denver Is the original who stirred up
London, have no longer any place In the
public mind Jack the Ripper" at this
| moment is an inmate Of q London insane
| asylum, and has been so confined for the
| past three years The fact has been kept
| quiet for some reason, probably to conceal
| the mans identity, for that is known to
| but very few people in London, and one of
| them. DIR. Forbes Winslow. who is the
| most famous insanity expert in Great
| Britain, is responsible for having discov-
cred him and having placed him where
| his peculiar talent can have no oppor-
| tunity to display itself.
| DIR. Winslow's Story.
But let DR.. winslow tell his own story,
as he did to the writer Of this article. one
| day last summer at his private office in
| a fashionable street off Of Cavendish
| Square.
'one morning opening my mail re-
ceived that letter." said Dr. Winslow,
| pointing to frame hanging on the wall
| of his office, in which was seen half
sheet of ordinary-siz note paper, and an
envelope, bearing stamp and London
postmark, addressed simply to DR.. Forbes
hear of me In a few days. Jack the Rip
| per-" The writing is evidently that of a
man who knows how to write, but who
has disguised his style by using his left
hand, probably. The doctor continued:
You see when 1T Is postmarked, which
was previous to the first intimation that
any such man as Jack the Ripper existed.
I opened the letter and read 1t without
attaching the slightest Importance to 1t,
or thinking for a moment 1t would ever
become In any way Interesting worthy
| OF preservation, but as is my rather
methodical custom, / threw the letter and
It's envelope with the others into a drawer
use for the purpose and gave no further
thought to the matter until many weeks
atter. when the entire city was startled by
the horrible murder of a woman and the
discovery of a line of writing on the wall,
over where the dead body was found, and
which read, I Will give myself up when I
have killed fifteen. Jack the Ripper
You will remember that a stupid police
man rubbed this writing out, but the marks
that were left were sufficiently distinct to
show upon comparing 1t with my letter
they were both written by the same hand.
AT once upon the fact being published in
the morning papers that this murder had
been done and the singular name of Jack
the Ripper being identified with IT. of
course, recalled to my mind the letter I
had received. 1 hunted up the letter and
went to the commissioner of police and
laid the matter before him and then I
went to the scene of the last affair and
made comparison between the writing I
had and the hardly discernible outlines of
that which had been upon the wall.
Would Not Aid Him.
81 formulated an idea Of the murders
1t was sustained by later Developments
and 1 asked the police to aid me or allow
me to cooperate with them in finding out
who the guilty party was, but for some
unaccountable and inexplicable reason,
they refused to do this. They obtained
then refused to make use of them. Certain
ly am not a detective, but my theory was
the correct one, and, while the police them
selves had no grounds upon which to work.
I felt they made a mistake in not cooper
ating with me-
However, time passed along and more
murders were committed, all of them
marked by the same atrocious popularity
and bearing indications of having been
done by a man experienced in the dissec-
ton or cutting up of human bodies. There
were the evidences of an acquaintance with
the use of the knife that were unmistak-
able, and while these cuttings were simply
for mutilation, yet they We're made with
such a precision and clear understanding
of how they should be made that there was
no doubt left in a physicians mind of the
acquain tance on the part of the murderer
with at least the rudiments of practical
surgery.
'The sensational stories Of revenge being
at the foundation of these crimes, or that
BILE foreigner who occasionally reached cur
shores, were all well enough to amuso the
masses, but those who looked into the mat
ter understandingly realized that the muir
dered women were victims of a monoman-
lac, q man who was insane upon this one
subject, and who had an uncomfortable
impulse to commit murder come upon him
at more or less regular intervals.
..Onc day l was called upon by a lady,
the wife of a physician in this city, and
who, herself, had upon one or two occa-
sons been a patient of mine. The lady was
in great distress, and l saw that her nerv-
Gus condition was serious; she was un-
questionably laboring under great mental
excitement, and could hardly control her-
self while in my ofilce-so as to talk con-
nectedly with me. Much to my surprise,
instead of the usual conversation that
transpires between a physician and his
patient. this lady at once talked of the
whether 1 mad studied them at all, what
my opinion was in the matter and whether
had any theory as to the guilty party.
replied to her questions as clearly as pos
sble and told her all that had conjectured
on the subject. j explained the theory that
had formed, and then called her atten-
tion to the letter, which just previous to
that time 1 had framed. At the sight of
this document she became still more agi-
tated, and 1 realized there was something
on her mind she wished to make known to
me- and l endeavored by gentle and kindly
words to encourage her to do so.
Suspected Her Husband.
FINALLY she, after much hesitation and
violent feeling, told ma she believed her
husband to be the man who had committed
the Jack the Ripper murders. At this in
formation l naturally was Mortified and
astounded. I knew who her husband was
and knew him to be a practitioner of sup
posed responsibility, and so incredible did
her suspicion appear to me that 1 thought
she herself had become crazed in some
way and this awful Idea had taken posses
sion of her. 1 questioned her carefully on
other subjects until she had Gained down
somewhat, which the revelation of her
secret seemd to aid her in doing and then
1 asked her the reasons she had for this
belief.
"She accounted to me the singular nc
ton of her husband at certain periods.
how he appeared for q day or two to be-
come irresponsible and how she had finally
noticed that upon the occasions when these
murders were committed he had been alb
sent from home and had returned in such
mental eXhilaratio1, followed by terrible
mental depression, that she felt confident
he had passed through some extraordinary
experience. There were other evidences
she explained, and which became sugges-
tive when the thought occurred to her, of