"Jack the Physician"

A curious story comes from San Francisco based on the alleged statement of an English physician of prominence visiting in that city. This is to the effect that the identity of the sanguinary criminal known as "Jack the Ripper" has for some time been known in London to the medical profession and the Scotland Yard authorities. According to this, it seems that the half-score terrible butcheries perpetrated under such strange circumstances were committed by a physician of more than ordinary skill and esteem. His abnormal moods of crimes visited him not only by the blood-curdling horrors so well known to the world, but by the most cunning and far-sighted craft in the execution of self-effacement.

Source: The Roland Record, May 9, 1895

Our neighbours across the Channel sometimes profess to know more about us than we know ourselves, but it is rather startling to read in such a well-informed paper as the "Journal des Debats" that the novel which is agitating England at the moment is
"The Murders of Whitchurch." It is said to be the true story of the Whitechapel murders as confessed to a country vicar. "Jack the Ripper" was a highly respectable doctor, whose mind had been warped by joining a National Protestant League, and he made the confession
with the stipulation that it should be made public at the end of ten years. Whitchurch and N.P.L. bring the excitement quite close home. Welsh news made in Paris!

Source: Evening Express, 6 February 1899, Page 2