Evening journal., 1891-04-25

had clawed out. Both shoulders lay fat
upon the bed, and it seemed as though the
murderer had twisted the limbs over to-
ward the wall in furtherance OF his awful
object.
He Fled with Scream.
The right arm was under the woman,
and the skinny hand reached out as II
clutching at something beyond the side
board Of the bed. Beneath the right thigh
was thrust the knife with which the muir
der had been done, the bloody handle pro-
jecting
The whole horrible picture struck upon
the sensitive palate Of little Fitzgerald's
intelligence in second With a scream
he fled down the long hallway. There was
no more business done in the East River
hotel yesterday A man ran TO the police
station In Oak street, whence Captain
O'Connor sent Detectives Doran and Crit
fin. Then the message went 20 headquart-
ers. Inspector Byrnes ordered Detectives
Crowley and Grady to the place, and by
1880 the hotel was under police care.
lie Had Carved a Cross.
Coroner Schultz was soon at the scene
Around the murdered woman's head was
tightly wrapped an old white cotton skirt.
When Coroner Schultz took that off he
disclosed the old, hard, sin stained face,
drawn into a look OF intense pain the dis
heveled gray hair hanging down her
back, and the throat showing the purple
marks of fingers that had clutched t.
The woman had been strangled TO death.
Then had followed the mutilation which
connected the crime with Jack the Rip
per'sp handicraft.
Beginning near the end Of the spine the
murderer had cut deeply frontward to d
point on the lower part OF the abdomen
and then back again TO where he started
What he had cut away had disappeared
He must have taken il with him. There
was no sign OF il In the room. Disembow
cling had followed this awful surgery
| This completed, the murderer had left his
mark on the body On the back OF the left
| hip IN jagged lines more than n foot lona
| he had scored a rude cross. On the door
the murderer had made his mark again
The boards which form the wall bore such
a cross as he had cut on the body scratched
in with the point Of a knife OF mans at
tire there was no trace in the room.
The Murderer Gone.
Gone the murderer was, aud no one ii
the hotel saw him 20 so far as the policl
could find out But this would be com
| paratively easy If he could walk the rat
Ting floors and creaSing stairs softl,
enough not to attract attention.
Fitzgerald, the night watchmau, is OF
duty all night on the lower floor, and h
says the man did not go out of the stree
door as far as he knows, but il would no
be hard for so crafty a murderer TO elud
a sleepy night watchman.
Mamie Miniter thus describes the man
He was, she said, Of a height which th
police take TO be about f. 81 in, abou
thirty-two years old, with a small ligh
brown mustache and light brown hail
From the few words she heard him spea
she thought he was foreigner, very likl
Z ly German He wore a light overcoat,
black Derby hat and seemed TO imprei
her as fairly well dressed
Inspector Byrnes at Work.
5 Inspector Byrnes put his best men q
the case They showed remarkable acti
) ity, and followed clew after clew ia tl
E hope OF getting at something tangibl
3 Nothing was neglected that pointed in an
way toward the detection Of the murlere
; Last night the inspector himself cam
! down to the Oak street station house an
his men were sprinkled all over the pr
l cuct. 10 "A reporter nc AAlui
''It would be absolute folly for me TO e;
: press an opinion upon the murder. III
fact that so great a crime has been con
B mitted makes IL almost imperative for n
4 to find the murderer
! "Do you think he is Jack the Rippery
4 II decline to say he answered.
c The inspector was guarded in his tai
4 He said that he had never criticised q
r work OF the London police.
+ He said that it would have been unju
! for him to have done so, as he was not su
posed to know under what difficulties thI
r may have labored 60 catch Jack the Ri
: per-" He declared again that in his po.
s ton he could not afford to express theoi
: upon the murder here. "But you ca
/ say,n he added, "that ] have plenty
e strings out. | am like a barrelful Of wires
o An Arrest Made.
e The first important arrest in the ca
4 was made az halfpast 8 o'clock last nigh
o Detectives Crowley and O'Brien, who hd
I been looking all day for a man call,
:, "Frenehy." came across him in Wat
, street and took him TO the station hous
i "Frenchyn is a tall fellow, with a lon
/, slim nose, and looks like a Greek. 4
D knew the murdered woman.