Young Man Arrested For Attempting Suicide

by **Karen** Tue 22 Feb 2011 - 5:29

JACK THE RIPPER AGAIN?

A Woman with Her Throat Cut Is Found in Kensal Green.

LONDON, Sept 8. - Another supposed "Jack the Ripper" murder was discovered this morning at Kensal Green. The victim, as usual, was a woman of the "outcast" class. Her throat was cut from ear to ear, and her head was fearfully battered with a stone.
No trace of the murderer has been discovered.

Dr. J. Forbes Winslow, the eminent English expert on insanity, now staying at the Westminster Hotel, stated in yesterday's World that Jack the Ripper had been placed in an English insane asylum. A young man, he said, had been arrested in London for attempting to commit suicide. Investigation showed that he was demented and that his description corresponded exactly with that of a mysterious stranger who lived near the scene of the Whitechapel murders and was believed to be Jack the Ripper.
A World reporter called at the Westminster last night and was informed that the Doctor could not be seen.

Source: The World, Monday September 9, 1895, Page 7