The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02

uncomfortable impulse for blood and
butchery. His wife finally discovered his
own terrible secret, and revealed it to
DR.. Wnslow.
"She told me- he declares, that she
believed her husband to be the man who
had committed the Jack the Ripper muir
ders At this information / naturally was
Mortified and astounded. / knew who her
husband was, and / knew her TO be
practitioner of supposed responsibility,
and so incredible did her suspicion appear
to me that l thought she herself had be-
come crazed in some way, and this awful
idea had taken possession OF her. / ques-
toned her carefully on other subjects
until she had Gained down somewhat,
which the revelation of her secret seemed
to aid her in doing, and then 1 asked
her the reasons she had for this belief.
She accounted to me the singular action
of her husband at certain periods, how
he appeared for day or two to become
irresponsible, and how she had finally no.
ticed that upon the occasions when these
murders were committed he had been abb
sent from home, and had returned in
such a mental exhilaration, followed by
terrible mental depression, that she felt
confident that he had passed through
some extraordinary experience"
OF course DR.. Winslow speedily investi-
gated the case. ended by becoming con-
vinced and quietly imprisoned the men,
tally irresponsible culprit in a London
asylum. Strange as this story reads 1t
does not seem more improbable than the
original story of crime
''Dr. Winslow's reputation for veracity
is beyond dispute in medical matters"
asserted a prominent neurologist of this
city, when questioned-yester concern
ing the report. He is perhaps the great
est of the insanity experts of Great Brit
ain. The fact that he received the original
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murders renders plausible the news that
he witnessed also the denouement. There
was more than a coincidence in this. The
wife undoubtedly understood to whom she
was making confession. That DR.. Win
slow did not guess who his strange cor
respondent was at the very start was due,
Of course, to the disguised chirography,
but he now states that ne identified the
same handwriting on the wall above the
body, which scrawling was nearly effaced
by stupid police. 1t is very probable, in
deed, that with becoming professional
modesty DIR. Winslow is seeking to avoid
the public announcement that he actually
ferreted the mystery himself and ran the
assassin to the hole.
1.-The wife, in her distress. might nat
urally have applied to him as a great ex>
pert on insanity, especially as he was
probably a professional friend of her hus-
band But it is just as likely, indeed,
that DR.. Winslow first revealed to the
wife his own suspicious based on reliable
evidence. His own curiosity would have
been piqued by the first letter, it goes with
out saying, and he would have been deep
ly interested anyway in such a unique cpl
sode of crime. That he was greatly inter
ested is shown by his acknowledged offer
to the London commissioner of police to
cooperate in the detective work. The
refusal of the police would only have
doubly melted him to the trail. The police
threw aside his clews and plans with
contempt. Is it not justihable to believe
that his pride was touched, and that he
followed up the secret alone?
From the first there could have been
little doubt in his mind of two things.
One of these was that Jack the Ripper
was a monomaniac; the other, that he was
a medical man. All the circumstances
pointed to monomania The threat to kill
fifteen victims could not have been rea-
sonably ascribed 10 a thirst for revenge.
1t was rather the symptom of a greed for
blood. The notwithstanding actions of
the assassin revealed his deep-settled in
sanity upon this one thing. Had he been
a totally insane man, he could not-even
with the stealthy craft of a crazy person
have hidden his tracks so successfully
Then, too, the horrible mutilations proved
him conclusively to be someone expert
enced in the dissection and surgery OF hui