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Vancouver prof says
Canadian doctor was
real Jack the Ripper
United Press International
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A university professor says he
has solved a mystery that has puzzled criminologists for 90 years. He
knows the identity of Jack the Ripper, he says — and he was Cana
dian.
“Everything fits,” says Professor Tony Barrett, professor of classics
at British Columbia University and an amateur criminologist. “Of
course, after all this time we ll probably never know for sure, but the
evidence puts a Canadian doctor at the top of the suspect list. ”
Barrett says Jack the Ripper, the notorious knife-murderer who
killed and mutilated eight prostitutes in the sleazy Whitechapel area
of Victorian London, was Dr. Neill Cream, who once practiced as a
physician in London, Ontario.
Like Jack the Ripper, Cream murdered four prostitutes in London,
England, over a period of two years, Barrett says. Unlike the Ripper,
however. Cream was caught, tried, found guilty and hanged.
“But the records show that the Ripper killings suddenly stopped,
for no apparent reason, when Dr. Cream was executed,” Barrett says.
“And the story of Jack the Ripper ended just as mysteriously, for he
was never seen or heard of again.”
He moved hurriedly to Chicago the following year when a patient
was found dead in his office with abrasions on her neck and a bottle of
chloroform beside her. A year later, he was tried on a murder-by
abortion charge, but was acquitted.
The following year, Cream was convicted of murdering the Cana
dian husband of a lady friend and sentenced to life imprisonment in
Illinois’s Joliet Prison. But in 1887, his father died and Cream sud
denly was a rich man, Barrett says.
“It was a common thing for prisoners to buy their freedom from a
corrupt administration. And this is what I think Dr. Cream did. The
next we hear of him is in London, England, four years later.
The clincher in Barrett’s evidence is a statement by the govern
ment official who hanged Cream, made to his son after the execution.
“The hangman told his son that Dr. Cream started to say some
thing seconds before he was hanged,” Barrett says. “His last words,
according to the hangman, were: T am Jack the.”’
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shoe and sock on the parking lot behind the
Reed McDonald Building on campus. This
Mexico’s new significance]
triggers desire for lobby
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI —
Mexican-Americans are hoping to
capitalize on the clout oil discov
eries have brought their homeland
by setting up a lobby in the United
States similiar to that of Jewish
Americans.
Edward Pena, national president
of the League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC), has
urged formation of the lobby in light
of both national and international at
tention now being focused on
Mexico.
“The secretary general of the
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