Mitchell Daily Republican
South Dakota, USA
13 February 1889
THEY WERE ALL HOAXES
The reported "Jack the Ripper" murders of Jamaica and Nicaragua inventions of London
Police
London, Feb. 13.
There is reason to believe that the intermittent stories of real or attempted outrages of
a similar character in various parts of the world since the latest East London horror were
really put in circulation by Scotland Yard detectives, presumably with the strategical
idea, which cannot fail to awaken admiration for its brilliancy, of lulling to sleep the
vigilance of the real monster and tempting him to add another to his list of victims. The
reported outrages in Central America really appear to have been of this kind, and if their
promulgation was truly due to the ingenuity of the inspectors here it reflects some credit
on their powers of invention. The belief of the Dundee authorities that they have captured
the Whitechapel fiend is not shared by the Scotland Yard officials.
