Random Crimes

In 1893, Chicago Tribune reporter Jack Dragon is lured on the basis of a few beguiling clues provided by the daughter of Chicago City Police Chief Hustin Glass to find a man she has never known but suspects may, in some way, be related to her. At the same time, reporter Jack Dragon is blackmailed by the chief into finding the same man, but for a very different reason; Chief Glass believes the unknown stranger is guilty of murdering four Chicago city policemen. Unless Jack engages in the hunt for this man, the chief has threatened to arrest him for the murders. In a desperate chase deep into the wildness of the Old West, Jack Dragonanow disguised as U.S. Marshal Jack Milleraencounters outlaws, ruthless lawmen, and many heinous murders. Slowly he begins to piece together a pattern in the otherwise random series of crimesaa pattern that eventually leads him to believe that he is on the trail of two men, and one of them is none other than the notorious Whitechapel killer, Jack the Ripper.