Monday, 26 November 1888
"JACK THE RIPPER'S PAL."--A private person living near Nottingham, England, has received a letter signed "Jack the Ripper's Pal," stating that both the writer of the letter and "Jack" committed the recent murders in the Whitechapel district. The writer says that "Jack" is a Bavarian whom he first met aboard a ship returning from America and who exercised the mesmeric influence.