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Jack the Ripper case.- [Buckle (George Earle, newspaper editor and historian, 1854-1935)] Autograph Letter third person as editor of The Times to the physician Sir James Risdon Bennett, 4pp., 8vo, The Times newspaper notepaper, 27th September 1888, returning his letter and with a view to publishing it requests him to "modify certain expressions in it. What the editor objects to is this - that Sir James attributes to The Times an inference & a suggestion which originated not with The Times but with the Coroner. The Times has not started the theory against which Sir James protests, but has merely drawn attention to & commented upon a theory put forward seriously & with every circumstance of authority & weight by the Coroner in the public discharge of his duties", folds. ⁂ "I have no desire to promulgate any theory in reference to these murders [the Whitechapel Murders]. My purpose in writing to The Times the other day was simply to demonstrate the absurdity of the theory that the crimes were being committed for the purpose of supplying an American physiologist with uteruses." - Sir James Risdon Bennett. North Eastern Daily Gazette, 3rd October 1888.