Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-30
THE RiPPER'S MARK.


at Present Unknown Assassin.
New YORK, April 26.-Jacl1 the Rip
per is believed by the police to have at
last come to this city. Yesterday IN
the East River hotel, the body of a
Wretched woman was found with her
abdomen horribly cut and her bowels
protruding. Her name is not known.
The resort in which her body was found
is one of the lowest in the city. 1t is
located on the southwest corner OF
Catherine and Market streets. The
woman was known about the neighbor-
hood as one of the half-drunl1en crea-
lures who hang about the low resorts
of Water street and the river side. She
went to the hotel in company with a
man who registered as knicllloi and
wife. The couple were assigned to a
room on the upper floor. and retired to
it at once. Nothing was seen or heard
of them during the night. No cry or
unusual noise was heard. In the morn
ing the attendant raped on the door
Of the room occupied by the couple.
There was no answer, and he raped
again with no better result, and
finally broke in the door. A horrible
sight met his gaze. On the bed lay the
woman in a big pool of blood. She had
been dead for hours. Her abdomen had
been fairly ripped open with a dull,
broken table knife that lay in the pool
of blood. The viscera had been cut
and from appearances part was miss
ing.
The wolnan's head was bandaged.
A oil bo1 ia1 hnr noly
and face. but whether for any foul
purpose or to hide any other traces
of murder the attendant did not wait
to see He gave the alarm at the office
and a messenger was hastily dispatched
to the police station. The police re-
sponded at once. and after viewing the
body the captain of the precinct in
which the murder was committed lost
no time in notifying police head
quarters of the horrible tragedy,
and in short while Inspector Byrnes
had three of his sharpest detectives
on the case.
No one has seen the man since he
went upstairs with the murdered
woman. He had escaped under the
cover of night when the bloody
deed was done. A very imperfect de-
scription was given of him to the po-
lice, and they went to work with much
secrecy to nnearth the murderer. The
little that could be learned about the
man was that he was shabbily dressed
and was about 80 years old. At
noon detective arrested an old crony
of the dead woman, but she was too
drunk to tell what she knew. She was
locked up to sleep off the effects of her
liquor, and the police hope that she
will at least give them some further
clew. The house in which the tragedy
was committed is guarded on all sides,
and no one is allowed to approach the
upper floors.
The coroner found the woman's petit
coat tied securely around her head.
After this was taken off a sheet was
found. and below this the woman'S
chemise was tied around her head with
one of her stockings The face was in
denied by the force of the bandages.
On the woman's back. near the base of
made with the knife Similar marks
were found on the bodies of the London
victims of Jack the Ripper.
The police are straining every nerve
to apprehend the murderer. Four GEN.
trail office detectives have been de-
tailed to aid the ward detectives in the
matter, and search is being made of
all the downtown lodging houses to
ascertain whether any stranger had
taken room subsequent to the per-
petration of the awful butchery. The
murdered woman has been positively
identified as an all-night ''rounder"
of many years standing in the
district where the crime was com
mitted which is similar in many
respects to the Whitechapel district of
London. Though the woman's real
name could not be ascertained, it waa
learned that she was known as 'Shakes-
peare" among her associates. This So
briuuet was applied to her because of
the fluent way in which she repeated
the lines of the great bard. She was a
handsome woman, with striking feat
ures of a roman cast and form of re-
marxable symmetry for woman of
her age. There are even traces of re-
finement visible beneath the marks left
by life of dissipation.
The place in which the woman's life
was ended is known to the residents in
the locality as the "house of all drinks. :"
It has bad reputation and is proba-
bly, one of the worst of it's class. The
police say that numerous crimes have
been committed within it's portals. and
only recently the bartender was ar
rested for cutting a man down with a
saber.
The woman was identified last night
by Mary Harrington, who keeps a lodg-
ing house on Oliver street, as Carrie
Brown.
At 10 o'clock last night two detectives
arrested young Frenchman, who is
called "Frenchy." It is claimed that
"Frenchy'' was seen with the Brown
woman on Thursday night at about 10
o'clock. This he strenuously denied.
He was locked up. Altogether the po-
lice, up to midnight had arrested four
men and seven women who are sup
posed to be able to throw light upon
the affair.
LATERAL o'clock this Saturday
morning Adolph Kellenberg was ar
rested. His descriptiod answers that
Of the murderer.
May Day in Paris.
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for the MASSAGE of act making eight