The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-06
new RIPPER NOTES
TRACED TO TOMBS,
SAY DETECTIVES
Edward Richman, Held for
Threats to Mrs. COhn.
Accused as Writer.
BOAST MADE OF SECOND
CRIME TO BE COMMITTED

Two letters reached the police through
the Post ONCE authorities yesterday
which may lead to the capture OF the
man who killed little Leonora Anna
Cohn and Charles Murray. They were
apparently written by a man who has
been in the Tombs since April 90. ac-
cused OF writing threatening letters to
Mrs. Cohn. the murdered girls mother.
While opening up new field OF In
We. legation the letters tend to deepen
the mystery which shrouds these crimes.
On their face the letters, signed III.
r. Richmond Jack the Ripper" seem
to be written In an effort to clear Ed
ward Richman. the man IN the Tombs.
OF the charge against him. They are
boastful. assert that Richman did not
write the earlier letters to Mrs. Cohn.
and that the man who did write them
will never he caught.
What interests the police particularly.
although no mention Is made Of the
Cohn murder in the letters. Is that one
forecasts an even worse crime in few
days. This was on April 80. the day
after Richman was arrested and three
days before the Murray hoy was muir
dered.
After the police had settled in their
own minds. by comparing handwriting
and characteristic misspellings. that
Edward Richman had written the letters
In the Tombs and that they had been
| posted outside. they were confronted by
the question: Did Richman know some
one who nigh, have killed the Murray
boy. or are the letters merely the rawlings
Of crank? Hickman IL known TO have
been drug user.
Encloses Letter 20 Police.
The letters we're received by Henry
: Eckert, Mrs. Coins uncle. on May I.
The envelope In which they had been
enclosed was posted at Station +. which
is on Thirty-fourth street near Lexing-
ton avenue. Inside the letter 20 Mrs
Cohn was one addressed TO the police
The letter TO Mrs. Cohn read:
DEAR Miss Conn Just a line 20 let
you know that the person that IL
accused for writing letters to you is
! innocent. I anne the fellow that wrote
I you the letters. Aud as sade befor
a man that keeps his ears and eyes
open and mouth shut will always get
along and never get caught. Some day
that Is ! shal ever get the chair I
may confess But "a long AS ! ma out
thay can never get me. Kindly give
Z the inclosed letter to the police and
tell than that ! wrote II. From
II. Il. RICHMOND. JACK THE RIrPER
The letter TO the police read
Why don't you drop this case You
! know that man cant get he In 100
years from now 40 its no youse In
Z sirchen for me ] arm wise guy
You know wise guy never gets
caught You may think that am a
fool TO write you But / am writing
Just Ia show that ant afrait Mr..
Richman is inccent OF the letters
witch you accuse him FOR writing to
Mrs Cohn. ] am the one that wrote
all OF them as ] told YOU in one of
my letters that is YOU 20 he the biggest
murderes be cometed In y. Y that
was ever. Now. now do you see
am troue
II. b. RICHMOND, JACK THE RITTER
On TOmbs Letter Paper.
The fact that the letters were written
on paper ouch as can be bought In the
Tombs by prisoners led Postal Inspec-
tors Jacobs and James 70 associate the
letters with Edward Richman. Samples
! OF his handwriting, they say, indicate
that Richman wrote both OF these letters,
as we'll Rs the first ones TO Mrs COIN.
The misspelling OF such words as
"afrait" and "inncent" Richman duplI-
Gated when he wrote them for the postal
| inspectors,
Then came the question OF how he got
the letters out OF the Tombs, and a
search OF the visitors book showed
that IA man whose last name was Rich
man. but who's" first name the police
withhold, visited the prisoner on Mon
day, the day the Murray boy was killed
a visitor to Richman yesterday was n
woman. who took away with her. the
police say. a letter Richman had written
| and addressed to her Detectives were
following her yesterday 10 be on hand
! II she posted letter Of Richman which
might have been enclosed In the letter 10
herself They think II possible that this
" the way the letter to Mrs. Cohn came
10 be posted uptown. The watch on this
woman and the Richman who visited the
prisoner will be kept UP in the hope that
II may lead to something tangible
Couldn't Have Killed Roy.
/ 1t Is plain that Richman in the Tombs
could have had nothing TO do with the
Murray killing. even N he did forecast
| IL. 1T ne WTOle lne 10 Mrs. t'Ohn
and the police. how could ne have known
that another crime similar 10 the COIN
murder was TO be committed? We're
the two murders done by the same man
or by two? Medical authorities saw
| that one man would not have killed n
boy and then GIRL that one sex alone
would be attacked. Did Richman's
visitors know anything of the crimeso
Was the second crime committed by a
man who knew the author OF the first,
or did the impulse that led to the second
crime come merely from reading OF the
FIRST?
I'VE have to deal with impulses uu-
known to the normal man." said Second
Deputy Lord last night. THE public
should realize this fact and also the
additional difficulty that there Is moth
Ing about such a person to distinguish
him from the crowd"
The funeral of Charles Murray will
be held from his home at 270 First ave.
nue. at o'clock this afternoon.
Edward Richman. the man in the
Tombs. will be arraigned before
United States Commissioner to-day on
the charge Of sending indecent letters
through the mails
No British Coal for NsutpaIs.
| Special Cable Despatch 10 TnE suS.
| LONDON. May all expectation OF