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Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
20 July 1889

HIS NAME IS BRODIE

The Man Who Confessed to the Jack the Ripper Crimes

London, July 20.
The man who gave himself up to the police and confessed that he committed the crimes laid to the door of Jack the Ripper says his name is William Brodie. Today he told the police magistrate that the confession he made yesterday was a true one, whereupon the magistrate remanded him for a week.


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  William Brodie
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       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Despatch - 21 July 1889 
       Press Reports: Manitoba Daily Free Press - 22 July 1889 
       Press Reports: Te Aroha News - 27 July 1889 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 12 September 1889 
       Press Reports: Woodford Times - 26 July 1889