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Marion Daily Star
Ohio, USA
10 March 1894

"JACK THE RIPPER" FOUND

He Is in the British Lunatic Asylum at Dartmoor

London, March 10.
The fact has developed, although so far it has been kept a profound secret, that the authorities have got on the track of "Jack the Ripper". The information leaks out from Scotland Yard, and has been guardedly confirmed by a leading officer of the metropolitan police.

The atrocious criminal, it is said, is an inmate of the government lunatic asylum at Dartmoor, in which he was incarcerated within a few weeks after the last Whitechapel horror, the authorities having no knowledge of his antecedents at the time of his committal as an insne pauper with homicidal tendencies.

The Scotland Yard authorities have possession of the knife which is of Chinese make with which the Whitechapel murders were committed. They were also familiar with the Ripper's movements during the intervals between the murders, and have been able to trace him to the asylum after the last crime.

Although pronounced incurably insane by the asylum physicians, the man has a clear recollection of the past, and all his conversations and remarks have reference to his crimes in the East End. Correspondence has passed between the government criminal department and the asylum authorities relative to the murderer's condition and as to whether now, or at any time in the near future, he is or will be likely to be sufficiently rational to be placed on trial. The result of these inquiries has not yet been disclosed.


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       Press Reports: Daily Nevada State Journal - 9 March 1894 
       Press Reports: Fresno Weekly Republican - 9 March 1894 
       Press Reports: Manitoba Daily Free Press - 8 March 1894