New York Times
24 October 1897
In an article about Joseph Vacher:
In connection with this subject, I have been informed on perfectly
trustworthy authority
that the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders is known to the police,
having been
finally identified with a certain lunatic, who is now confined in a
madhouse in Scotland.
The murderer is an Oxford graduate, and made a certain reputation some ten
years ago as a
minor poet. He bears a distinguished name, which has been repeated to me,
and is famous in
Scottish history in connection with a young woman who saved a King's life
in a heroic way.
The "Ripper" had a wife who was descended from a very famous English
Admiral. His latest
delusion is that he is the grandson of Napoleon the Great.
