The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-05-11

By dusk of next day no less than 5000
of these in citizens clothes, in addition
to 800 detectives, disguised as mechan-
les and dock laborers, were patroling the
courts and alleys of Whitechapel.
Notwithstanding these precautions
Jack the Ripper" penetrated the cor
don, slew his victim and made his es-
cape.
Mr.. Lees was SO affected by this last
tragedy that he at once removed to the
continent. While he was thus abroad
the Ripper" completed his sixteenth
murder. and had coolly informed the
Scotland Yard authorities that he sin
tended to kill twenty and then cease"
Shortly after this Mr.. Lees returned to
England, where ne made the acquaint-
anee of Roland g. Shaw, a mining stock
broker OF New York, and Fred G. Beck
with, of Broadhead, Wis, who was then
the financial promoter of an American
syndicate in London.
These three gentlemen were dining one
day in the Criterion when Mr.. Lees
turned TO his two companions suddenly
and exclaimed: "Great God! Jack the
Ripper has committed another murder"
Mr.. Shaw looked at his watch and
found it was eleven minutes to eight.
AT ten minutes past eight policeman
discovered the body of r woman in
Grower court, in the WhitechapeI dis
trict.
| MIR. Lees and his companions at once
went to Scotland Yard. The news of the
murder had not yet reached the inspec-
tor, but while Mr.. Lees was relating his
story a telegram arrived giving full de-
tails of the outrage. The inspector, tax
ing with him two mon in plain clothes,
at once drove to Crown court, in COM
pany with Mr.. Lees and the two Ameri-
cans. AS they entered the court Mr..
Lees exclaimed: "Look in the angle of
the wall. There is something written
there.D
The inspector ran forward and, not
having a dark lanterns with him, struck
a match. AS the tiny fame fiared up
the words: Seventeen. Jack the Rip
per-" done in chalk upon the wall were
distinctly visible.
The inspector by this time was in a
condition closely bordering on INSANITY.
1t must be Lorne in mind that this mad
man had for years baffied all the re-
sources Of the greatest police force in
the world-that, rendered desperate at
last. the British authorities had sum-
moned to their assistance
THE MOST EXPERIENCED DETEC-
TIVES
in France, Germany, Holland, Italy,
Spain and America; that they had law
| ishd immense sums in an endeavor to
trace the fend: that there was then pend
ing an aggregate reward of $4,000 pounds,
together with life pension of /, 500 pounds
should first deliver to justice the terri
Bile Ripper"
AS before stated, the inspector seemed
to recognize in Mr.. Lees an instrument OF
Providence, and he determined then and
there to avail himself of his marvellous
though altogether incomprehensible
powers. After an earnest appeal from
the inspector Mr.. Lees consented to try
and track the "Ripper"-much in the
same way as the bloodhound pursues a
criminal. There seemed to be some
magnetic wave connecting an impalpable
sense he possessed with the fugitive. All
that night Mr.. Lees submitted himself to
this strange magnetic influence and
traversed swiftly the streets of London.
The inspector and his aids followed q
few feet behind him. At last, at 4
O'Clock in the morning, with pale face
and bloodshot eyes, the human blood
hound halted at the gates of West End
mansion, gasping. with cracked and
swollen lips, as he pointed to an upper
chamber where faint light yet
cleaned: "There is the murderer-the
man you are looking for"
at ia impossi ble," returned the insnec-
tor That is the residence of one of the
most celebrated physicians in the West
End
The most extraordinary part of this
we'll nigh incredible narrative is now to
come The inspector had been SO strong-
ly impressed with the clairvoyant powers
of MI Lees that he determined to put
them to the GROWING proof.
"If you will describe to me-" he said,
"the interior of the DOCTORS hall / will
arrest him, but shall do SO at the risk
of losing Esy position, which l have won
by over twenty years. faithful service.
"The hail has high porter's chair of
black OAK on the right hand as you en-
ter it, stained glass window at the ex-
treme end, and large mastiff is at this
moment asleep at the foot of the stairs, "
replied Mr.. Lees without any hesitation.
They waited then till O'Clock, the
hour at which the servants begin to stir
in fashiona BILE London residence. They
then entered the house and learned that
the doctor was still in bed. They re
quested to be allowed to see his wife.
The servants left them standing in the
hall and Mr.. Lees called the inspectors
attention to the fact that there was nc
mnstitf visih1e as he had daecrihad