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Bloomfein
The Nevada State Journal 22 June 1915, mentioned a man named Bloomfein, suspected of being Jack the Ripper. The man was being detained in the Philadelphia hospital for the insane for the murder of two children, Leonora Cohen, on 19 March, and two months later James Murray, in the East Side of New York. The man, who is being investigated, told an incoherent story to detectives about cutting up people.