The Atlanta Constitution, August 25, 1913

August 25, 1913

Eighteenth Victim of “Ripper”

The woman had been living for the last month in an alley just off Ponce de Leon avenue, having separated from her husband, J.C. Ruffian, who was also a state’s witness in the Grace trial and a former butler in the Grace home. She had evidently been killed in her home and then dragged through a large pea patch for a distance of 50 feet, as a trail of blood was discovered leading from the house to the clump of bushes in which the body was found.

Her death was due to a single knife wound in the throat, which severed the jugular vein. The crime is a mystery to the police, who can assign no motive for the murder of the negress unless it can be shown that Alex Smith, a negro lately intimate with her, killed her in a jealous rage. The murder was committed in the regular “Jack the Ripper” style and is the eighteenth crime of the same nature perpetrated in Atlanta within the past three years. The police are searching for Alex Smith, a negro, who they believe may be able to tell something about the crime.

The Atlanta Constitution,

March 8, 1914

ULTIMATUM ISSUED BY JACK THE RIPPER

Threatens Pawnbrokers and

Women Vagrants in Card

Pinned on Fire Box.

Jack the Ripper, notorious for his murders of negro women, has issued an ultimatum to pawn brokers, negro women, women of the streets, and late night idlers.

He declares that he will begin his work in the city of Atlanta again and gives public notice of it. Fire Station House No. 2 received three false alarms last night between 12 o clock and 1 o clock all of which were on the south side of the city and from fire boxes that are very near to each other. First the alarm was from Washington and Love streets then box 86 at Washington and Jefferson streets was pulled and then the third and last box 334 at the corner of Whitehall terrace and Richardson streets was pulled.

Chief Courtney on investigation of box 334 found Jack the Ripper’s bloody ultimatum written on a card and signed in bold letters. He threatened to cut the throats of all negro women found out on the streets after a certain hour of the night, gave a warning to all pawnbrokers, women of the streets including white women and advised all idiots to beware.

It is the belief of the fire chief that the bold Ripper called by many, Gyp the Blood, had pinned his ultimatum to the first two fire boxes but that the wind had probably blown them off before the arrival of the firemen.

Chief Courtney gave the card to a policeman and the police have taken the matter in hand intending to give it a thorough investigation. During the summer of 1911 it will be remembered that nearly twenty murders were attributed to the Ripper.

The Atlanta Constitution,

July 22, 1914

“JACK THE RIPPER”

IS ONCE MORE BUSY

Another Negro Woman Found

Mysteriously Murdered

in Woods.

Jack the Ripper is beginning operations in Atlanta again among negro women. A second victim of this week was found murdered Tuesday shortly afternoon in a niche of woods near the end of Hill street, lying half submerged in a small stream of water.

A bullet hole pierced the negro woman’s head, and around her body on the bank were the prints of a man’s feet and signs that a struggle had preceded her death.

The discovery of the negro woman’s body forms a mystery to the police. An unknown party telephoned police headquarters that a dead woman’s body had been found, giving the location. When Officer Charles Maddox arrived at the specified place no one was there to direct him to the place where the body was said to be. The policeman went by the directions given in the telephone message and found the body.

The coroner was notified, and took charge of the body.

The woman appeared to be about 25 years old, and she apparently had been dead twelve hours.

A negro woman was found murdered Sunday morning in the Murphey woods by Officer Haslett. She had been killed in the Jack the Ripper style, her throat being cut and her breast slashed with a knife.

The Atlanta Constitution,

July 27, 1914

Negro Woman Slain

By Jack the Ripper

Found Early Sunday

“Jack the Ripper,” the will-o’-the-wisp murderer of negro women, who has baffled the Atlanta police force for several summers, marked another Sunday by his murderous work.

A negro woman was found dead in the woods north of the junction of Greensferry and Lawton streets by Detectives Chewning and Sturdivant, shortly after 9 o’clock Sunday morning.

Her throat had been cut, and her body slashed in several other places, in “Jack the Ripper” fashion. The coroner was summoned, but the identity of the negro woman has not yet been established.

The Atlanta Constitution, July 19, 1915

ANOTHER VICTIM TAKEN

BY "JACK THE RIPPER"

After an absence of months Jack the Ripper that will o wisp murderer, whose midnight activities have baffled the city in years gone by again made his appearance in Atlanta Saturday night.

Police officers early Sunday morning found the body of a negro woman which had been slashed in several places with a razor or a very sharp knife. The body was lying in a ditch alongside the road at Sixteenth and Cherry streets. The negress so far is unidentified.

City detectives have been put to work on the murder. Police Captain W M Mayo Sunday said that the murder has every aspect of the old Jack the Ripper murders of several years ago.

The Atlanta Constitution,

August 16, 1915

“Ripper” Busy Again;

Another Negro Woman

Victim of the Slasher

Discovery near the corner of Ponce de Leon and Penn avenues of the body of Lucy Farr, a negro woman employed at 207 Bedford place, at 7 o’clock Sunday morning, leads the police to believe that another “Jack the Ripper” crime has been committed in Atlanta.

Police headquarters was notified early Sunday morning by a negro that he had found the body of the woman, and that she had evidently been stabbed in the head several times.

Call Officers Austin and McWilliams answered the call, and had the body removed to Howard’s undertaking establishment, where a coroner’s inquest will be held.

The Atlanta Constitution,

September 6, 1915

Negress, Found Dead,

Believed to Be Victim

Of “Jack the Ripper”

The body of an unidentified negro woman, thought to be a victim of the mysterious “Jack the Ripper,” was found in a hog pen of the Virginia avenue convict camp at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. The woman was found by one of the guards at the camp.

There were no marks on her body to show that she had died from violence, but Sergeant Jordon, of the county police force, states that in his opinion her neck was broken with some heavy instrument. A coroner’s inquest will be held over the body.

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