Show HOW JA JACK CK THE RIPPER WAS CAUGHT the story recently told by dr howard a well known london physician to william greer harrison of the bohemian club in san francisco in in regard to the fate of lack jack the ripper says a chicolo dispatch to the san francisco chronicle unseals the lips of a gentleman in chicago who is enabled to give a full account ot that exhaustive search by the london detectives which at thew the conclusion of a years unremitting labor laboi resulted in fixing the identity of the infamous murderer beyond the shadow ot of a doubt the dr howard referred to was one of a dozen london physicians who sat as a court of medical inquiry or a commission in lunacy upon their brother physician for at last it was definitely proved that the dreaded lack jack the ripper was no less a person than a physician in high standing in the west end of london when it was absolutely proved beyond peradventure that the physician in question was the murderer and his it u sanity fully established by a commis commission gion de lunatics luna tico all parties having a knowledge of the facts were sworn to secrecy up to the time of dr howards disclosure this oath had been rigidly adhered to A london clubman now in chicago who is acquainted with dr howard is of the opinion that being in ia a foreign country and perhaps under the influence ot of wine dr howard has permitted his tongue to was wag too freely the guilty physician hada had a passion for inflicting pain upon animals of every sort lie he had scarcely been married a month before his wife discovered this mania in testifying before the commission she gave the following extraordinary evidence one night we were sitting in the drawing room quite late I 1 arose to go to bed when I 1 arrived up stairs I 1 remembered I 1 had left my watch upon the drawing room ma tel piece I 1 descended the stairs As I 1 approached the the drawing room I 1 heard the sounds of a cat mewing fat piteously bously looking through the door I 1 was horrified to see my husband holding the cat over the flame of a moderator lamp I 1 was too frightened to do anything but retreated up stairs I 1 discovered later that he had bad spent almost the whole night burning the cat to death it was quite possible lor for me as I 1 studied him closely to tell when these moods were coming on on such occasions some apparently trivial act would put me on my guard in his normal moods he was an excellent husband and father and one of the gentlest and most tractable men robert james lees is the gentleman to whom the unfortunates ot of the east end of london owe their present im irom from attacks of the ripper lees is at present the proprietor ot of a novel institution for the higher education ot of woi kingmen at peckham a suburb of london and resides at 26 the gardens peckham rye london southeast one day he was writing in his study when he became convinced that the ripper was about to commit another murder the whole scene arose before him he seemed to see a man and a woman walking down the length of mean street he followed them hem in his minds eye and saw them enter a narrow court he saw the man cut the womans comans throat and gash the lifeless body horribly with a large knife so impressed was he by the vision that he at once went to scotland yard and detailed the whole matter to the detectives by way of humoring one whom they considered a harmless lunatic the sergeant at the desk took down the name ol of the place where lees said the crime would be committed and also noted that the clock in a mythical pub lie lic house had pointed to 1240 at the moment when the ripper and his victim had entered the court at 1230 the following night a woman entered a public house lacing facing the court in question she was quite bite under the influence of liquor an and the barkeeper bar keeper refused to serve her she left led the place and was seen by another witness to enter the court again in corn com pany with a man dressed in a dark suit and carrying a light overcoat upon his arm this was in evidence given belore the deputy coroner who held an inquest on the body ot of the woman who had bad been found in the very spot described by lees with her throat cut fr from ear to tar ear and otherwise indecently and horribly mutilated to quote irom brorn the coroners records lees himself was indescribably shocked when he learned of the murder next dey day and removed with his family to the continent while he was abroad the ripper committed four more murders but lees had no visions regarding them later lees returned to Lon london donand and one day while riding in an omnibus he exa ex perien ced a renewal of his strange sensations the omnibus ascended nottinghill Notting gbill hill stopping at the top where a man entered lees at once experienced a singular sensation looking up he perci eved that the new passenger was a man of medium size dressed in a dark suit of scotch tweed over which he wore a light overcoat he had a soft felt hat on his head over a year had elapsed since lees vision but the picture of the mut murderer derer had been indelibly impressed upon his mind to his wife he remarked earnestly that is jack the ripper his wife laughed and told him not to be foolish 1 I am ain not mistaken replied lees 1 I feel it the bus turning into oxford street at marble arch the man in the light overcoat got out lees followed the man down park lane on reaching apsley house the man jumped into a cab and was driven rapidly down piccadilly that night lees again received premonitions ions that the ripper was about to commit another murder and hastened to scotland yard the head iff inspector listened with a smile of incredulity until lees told of the victims ears being severed from her head at this the officer drew a postal card car dIrom from his desk and laid it before his visitor the card written in red ink bore the marks of two bloody fingers the card read as follows tomorrow night I 1 shall again take my revenge claiming from the class of women who have made themselves most obnoxious to me my ninth victim JACK THE RIPPER P S to prove that I 1 am really jack the ripper I 1 will cut the ears off the ninth victim at these words lees tainted fainted dead away so impressed was the inspector that all that day he concentrated his energies upon the problem ot of how to cover district by dusk the next day constables in citizens clothes and 1500 detectives disguised as mechanics were patrolling the courts and alleys of i notwithstanding these precautions jack the ripper penetrated the cordon slew his victim and made his esi cape one ear was completely severed I 1 from her body and the other was ban hang ing from her head by a mere shred lees again removed to the continent while abroad the ripper completed his sixteenth murder shortly after that lees returned to england where he made the aca acq acquaintance in of of roland B shaw a mint mining stock broker of new york and fred C beckwith of broadhead wis who was then the financial promoter of an american syndicate in london the three gentlemen were dining one day in the criterion when lees suddenly exclaimed clai nied great god jack the ripper has committed another murder shaw looked at his bis watch and found it was A a policeman discovered the body ot of a woman in crown court with her throat cut from ear to ear and her body bearing all the marks of the rippers dippers Rip pers handiwork after an earnest appeal from the inspector lees consented to try and track the ripper much in the same why way as a bloodhound pursues a criminal all that night lees traversed swiftly the streets of 0 london the inspector and his aids follow follower eJ a few feet behind at last at four in the morning the human hum in bloodhound halted baited at the gates of a west end mansion pointing to an upper chamber where a faint light gleamed he said there is the murderer you are looking for it is impossible returned the inspector that is the residence of one of the most celebrated physicians in the west end but if you will describe to me the interior of the doctors hall I 1 will arrest him les gave the description without hesitation at 7 they entered the house and found the room justas just as described and learned that the doctor was still in bed after the examination referred to above the ripper was removed to a private insane asylum in Is lington and he is now the most intractable and dangerous madman confined in that establishment in order to account tor for the disappear ance of the doctor from society a sham death and burial were gone through and an empty coffin which now re poses in the family vault at kensal greenis green is supposed to contain the mortal remains ol of the great west end physician whose untimely death all london mourned at the asylum the ripper is simply known as thomas mason alias no |