The morning call., 1894-12-05
JACK THE RIPPER.
Not the Original, but an
ImitatOr.
A WEAK-MINDED SWELL.
Allowed at Large Without His
Keeper.
ATROCIOUS MURDER FOLLOWS,
And the Whole Aristocracy of Great
Britain is Involved in
the Scandal.

LONDON, Dec. 4. - The detectives OF
Scotland Yard are busily at work ferret
ing out the bottom facts in sensa-
tional murder mystery which involves, in
directly, a number of the most aristo-
cratic families of Great Britain. On No
vember 26 last the Associated Press
announced exclusively that mysterious
murder bau been committed in Kensing-
ton, populous western suburb of London.
The body Of cOmely, well-dressed
young woman named Dawes, ABOUT 80
years old, belonging to the unfortunate
class, was found in a mucb-frequented
tn horou ghfare-HOlland Villas road, Ken
sington. A hasty examination of the
body sho wed that her throat had been cut
from ear 10 ear. The police at first were
completely at fault, and some of the Lon
don newspapers raised the old cry Of
Jack the Ripper" although there was
little or 10 ground for so doing. Suspicion
centered upon young man OF excellent
family named Reginald LlewellyD Bassett
Saunderson, a nephew Of tbs famous
Colonel E. j. Saunderson, the Orange
leader, Member of Parliament for North
Armagh, a magistrate ana deputy lieu
tenant, and the son of Llewellyn Traherne
Bassett Saundersou Esq, a Justice Of the
Peace of Dublin County, Ireland. who
married Lady Rachael Mary Scott, third
sister of the Earl of Clonmel. One Of
Reginald Sauuderson's aunts is Lady
Edith Caroline Monck, wife of the Hon.
Henry Power Charles Stanley Monck,
eldest son of the fourth Viscount Monck.
Another OF his aunts is Lady Maria Hen
rietta Fitzclsrehce. whose husband is
brother of the Earl of Munster and a
grandson of William ".
The young man. it appears. is only 81
years old. tall and handsome, most pleas
ant conversatioual!st aud an expert at foot
ball, rowing and swimming. But be is far
from being strong minded and was sent to
a school for the protection and education
of gentlemen of weak intellect at Hamp-
tonwick Saunderson, according TO the
police, left that institution on November
Is, ssVlsg that, tr istendsd to attend
divine ser vice at local church, but he
was not heard of again until he appeared
at the house of his relatives at Belfast,
some time after the murder. The theory
of the police is that SaundersoD. after
leaving Hamptonwiek. came to London
and met the Dawes woman. The evidence
which directly connects him with the mur-
der is the fact that by the dead woman's
side the police found knife and a cherry
wood stick, which were subsequently
identified by the pupils OF the institution
at Hamptonwick as having belonged to
Saunderson.
The police were soon in possession of
the following facts: For months past the
Fpnliah hay in
much space to the trial of man named
James Canham Read, hanged this morn
ing, married man, at one time employed
as clerk al the London docks, who was
charged with the murder at S0uthend,
England. on June "a last. of q young
woman, Florence Dennis, with whom he
had been on intimate terms. Saunderson,
it seems, was deeply impressed by the
accounts of the trial which he read in the
newspapers. He would eagerly peruse
everything published on the subject and
seemed to brood over the case.
The police, it seems, first got on the
track of Saunderson in Belfast, and took
him into custody. But while the prisoner
was being conveyed to Dublin, en- route to
London, he escaped. but was recaptured
yesterday at Killeshandrs, near Armagh.
There are several points in the story of
the Kensington murder mystery which
are yet unexplained. Was the unfortu-
nate woman who met her death in the
Holland Villas road a chance acquaint-
ance of Saundersou, or had he known her
for some time? The general opinion
seems to be that she was an accidental
acquaintance with whom the prisoner met
after his arrival in London, and that his
mind having become completely unbin ged
from broodinR over the details of the
Southend murder he felt impelled to kill
the woman. and so cut her throat and
fed, leaving the knife and walking stick
behind.
Saunderson arrived four or five days ago
at Nabilla, the residence of Mrs. Kate
Jones. widow, two miles from Castle
Saunderson. 1t was remarked he had a
very scanty outfit; He looked i'll and was
very reserved.
The master of the school at Hampton
wick states that in view of Saunderson's
probably going to Canada to start farming
he was allowed to take part 10 gardening
at the school, and the knife found by the
side of the murdered woman was one he
bad used for pruning purposes.
1t has come out that one of the places
visited by Saunderson was Moncksto wn.
While there he wrote an unsigned letter,
in which he admitted his guilt. This let
ter fell into the hands of Scotland Yard
aut horities ana was one of the clews that
leo to his arrest
BIG FIRE IN AHA.