Introduction
Victims
Suspects
Witnesses
Ripper Letters
Police Officials
Official Documents
Press Reports
Victorian London
Message Boards
Ripper Media
Authors
Dissertations
Timelines
Games & Diversions
Photo Archive
Ripper Wiki
Casebook Examiner
Ripper Podcast
About the Casebook


Most Recent Posts:
Scene of the Crimes: Prostitutes revisited - by Barnaby 1 hour ago.
Motive, Method and Madness: Did The Ripper Remove Organs? - by GBinOz 1 hour ago.
Pub Talk: King Charles Opens Canadian Parliament - by Enigma 5 hours ago.
Maybrick, James: The Diary—Old Hoax or New? - by Lombro2 5 hours ago.
Maybrick, James: The Diary—Old Hoax or New? - by Lombro2 5 hours ago.
Maybrick, James: Acquiring A Victorian Diary - by Lombro2 5 hours ago.
Maybrick, James: Acquiring A Victorian Diary - by rjpalmer 6 hours ago.
Pub Talk: King Charles Opens Canadian Parliament - by Herlock Sholmes 7 hours ago.

Most Popular Threads:
Bury, W.H.: Is Bury the best suspect we have? - (17 posts)
General Discussion: Summing Up And Verdict - (13 posts)
Maybrick, James: The Diary—Old Hoax or New? - (12 posts)
Motive, Method and Madness: Catherine Eddowes' Kidney - (12 posts)
Motive, Method and Madness: Did The Ripper Remove Organs? - (10 posts)
Maybrick, James: Acquiring A Victorian Diary - (6 posts)


Indiana Evening Gazette
Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
8 May 1915

MAY BE JACK THE RIPPER
Austrian Arrested in New York After Chasing Small Boys

New York, May 7.
A man suspected of being Jack the Ripper was arrested in a hallway in Seventeenth Street, where he had hidden after being chased by the father of one of several boys whom he was accused of having frightened. The man, who said he was Lewis Stemler, twenty nine years old, an Austrian waiter out of work, is said to have been chasing a small crowd of boys about five or six years old along First Avenue.

A few hours before the body of little Charlie Murray was carried from his home in First Avenue, his mother received a letter in which the writer boasted that he would soon kill another child as soon as the present excitement has died down. It is said that the writer of the letter, which was not made public, not only predicted another revolting crime, but showed a desire to bait the police by naming the locality in which the outrage will take place.

In this he has apparently taken his inspiration from the White Chapel ripper murders, in which the man who stabbed in the night often wrote to the police the place he would kill on a certain date and dared them to catch him. They never did.


Related pages:
  Louis Stemler
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide - Lewis Stemler