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Show JACK TH SLASHER INjJAIL. An Insane !an llent on Revenge for the Dealing of Ills Mother. New York, Jan. 18. For the past three weeks the' police ha'.o been agitated over a series of peculiar assults committed by a man come to be known as "Jack the Slasher," Slash-er," who suddenly walking up behind partially par-tially intoxicated pedestrians, Mould cut their throat with a razor and then disappear. This morning Detective Mastersou, noticing suspicious actions on the part of a roughly dressed stranger, shadowed him, finally catching him in the act of committing an assault of the kind mentioned. He as arrested, ar-rested, and when searched, a bloodstained blood-stained razor was found upon him. The man's identity and motive for the crimes are unknown. The man now gives the name of Henry Dowds, and says that be was born in Liverpool, Liver-pool, coming to this country wheu a boy. He has confessed some of the crimes, saying that the impulse to kill under certain circumstances cir-cumstances was uncontrollable. He wanted to kill all Germans. A ticriuan once ravished rav-ished his mother, and whenever be saw a man who looked like bis mother's ravisher, he tried to kill him. He had been incarcerated incarcer-ated in an asylum for the insane for some time, but had escaped. |