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Just found this article, apologies if it has been seen/posted before, but I cannot recall having seen it. It has been transcribed, and the follwing link shows the original, from The Canberra Times, 20th December 1927.
The thing I wondered about is the (albeit slight) connection to the Leonard Matters story. South America. I wonder if this was perhaps the starting point of Matters' little story?
Best wishes
Phil
OLD SAILOR'S THRILLS
"Jack The Ripper" Crimes
MAN RAVING ON A SHIP
There is at the present time an old man in the hospital of an institution m Essex who may have known "Jack the Ripper." He is Mr. J. K. Brume, a bronzed old salt of eighty, whose head is still covered by a thick growth of hair that many a man half his age
might envy.
in his time Mr Brume has been everything from a seaman to a qualified chemist. He has fought Red Indians on the plains of America, acted with a "barn-storming" company in Canada and served as a soldier in India. But none of his adventures is stranger than that which brought bim face to face with the man who may have committed the "Jack the Ripper" murders.
"It happened when I was sailing on one of the old windjammers from London to South America," said Mr. Brame, in an interview which he gave to the "Sunday News." "Just before, the world had been shocked by the mysterious series of revolting murders of women in Whitechapel, London, which were known as the "Jack the Ripper," out- rages. The murders, which terrorised the East End of London, had stopped as mysteriously as they begun.
MAN RAVING ABOUT MURDERS
"About half way out I was called to attend to a man who was in delirium nn one of our cabins, and as I did my best for him I was horrified to hear him raving about the murders of wom- en which ho had committed. He gave full and revolting details of the atro- cious crimes, but whether he, was the real murderer or was reproducing in his dementia the stories which he had perhaps read in one of the papers, I do not know, and no one is ever likely
to know now.
"Still, the fact in that this unknown man-he was, by the way, a man of
superior appearance and spoke in an educated voice - confessed in his fever to the murder of a number of women
in the East End of London. 1 was tre- mendously excited by what I heard, and thought that I was going to be the means of clearing up the most baffling mystery in the history of crime. But the man died at Iquique, in Chile, and his secret went to the grave with him.
Just found this article, apologies if it has been seen/posted before, but I cannot recall having seen it. It has been transcribed, and the follwing link shows the original, from The Canberra Times, 20th December 1927.
The thing I wondered about is the (albeit slight) connection to the Leonard Matters story. South America. I wonder if this was perhaps the starting point of Matters' little story?
Best wishes
Phil
OLD SAILOR'S THRILLS
"Jack The Ripper" Crimes
MAN RAVING ON A SHIP
There is at the present time an old man in the hospital of an institution m Essex who may have known "Jack the Ripper." He is Mr. J. K. Brume, a bronzed old salt of eighty, whose head is still covered by a thick growth of hair that many a man half his age
might envy.
in his time Mr Brume has been everything from a seaman to a qualified chemist. He has fought Red Indians on the plains of America, acted with a "barn-storming" company in Canada and served as a soldier in India. But none of his adventures is stranger than that which brought bim face to face with the man who may have committed the "Jack the Ripper" murders.
"It happened when I was sailing on one of the old windjammers from London to South America," said Mr. Brame, in an interview which he gave to the "Sunday News." "Just before, the world had been shocked by the mysterious series of revolting murders of women in Whitechapel, London, which were known as the "Jack the Ripper," out- rages. The murders, which terrorised the East End of London, had stopped as mysteriously as they begun.
MAN RAVING ABOUT MURDERS
"About half way out I was called to attend to a man who was in delirium nn one of our cabins, and as I did my best for him I was horrified to hear him raving about the murders of wom- en which ho had committed. He gave full and revolting details of the atro- cious crimes, but whether he, was the real murderer or was reproducing in his dementia the stories which he had perhaps read in one of the papers, I do not know, and no one is ever likely
to know now.
"Still, the fact in that this unknown man-he was, by the way, a man of
superior appearance and spoke in an educated voice - confessed in his fever to the murder of a number of women
in the East End of London. 1 was tre- mendously excited by what I heard, and thought that I was going to be the means of clearing up the most baffling mystery in the history of crime. But the man died at Iquique, in Chile, and his secret went to the grave with him.
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