The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-01
THE RIPPER's MARK.

NEW YORK, April 26.-Jacl 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
wretehed woman was found with her
abdomen horribly cut and her bowels
protruding. Her name is not known.
The resort in which her body wac found
is one of the lowest in the city. It is
located on the southwest corner of
Catherine and Market streets. The
woman was known about the neighbor-
hood as one of the half-drunkeE 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 KniclSloi and
wife. The couple were assigned to a
room on the upper foot, and retired to
it at once. Nothing was seen or heard
of them during the night. No cry or
unusual noise was head. 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 big pool of blood She had
been dead for hours. Her abdomen had
been fairly ripped open with dull,
broken table knife that lay in the pool
of blood. The viscera had been cut
and from appearances a part was miss
ing.
The woman's head was bandaged.
A cloth had been tied about her neck
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 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 unearth 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-
| dented by the force of the bandages.
! On the woman's back, near the base of
I the spine, the mark of a cross had been
/ made with the knife. Similar marks
were found on the bodies of the London
victims OF Jack the Ripper.
The police are straining every nervo
to apprehend the murderer. -Four CEN
trail office detectives have been de-
tailed to aid the ward detectives in tho
matter, and search is being made of
all the downtown lodging houses to
ascertain whether any stranger had
taken a room subsequent to the per-
petration of the awful butchery. The
murdered woman has been positively
identified as an all-night ''roundcr"
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
I learned that she was known as Shakes
! peare" among her associates. This So
briquet 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 a form of re-
markable symmetry for a 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" +"
1t has bad reputation and is proba-
| bly, one of the worst of its class. The
police say that numerous crimes have
been committed within its 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 lodg-
ing house on Oliver street, as Carrie
Brown.
At 10 o'clock last night two detectives
arrested young Frenchman, who is
called ''Frenchy.'' 1t 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. a4
Lateral o'clock this Saturday
morning Adolph Kellenberg was ar
rested. His description answers that
of the murderer.
May Day in Paris.
PARIS, April 25.-A manifesto calling