The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-04-27
THE RIPPER KNOWN.
Byrnes Says Carrie Brown Was
Slain by an Algerian. ,
HE MAY BE SOON ARRESTED

The Murderer u Cousin of the Mar
Now Locked Up and a Notorious
Frequenter of the Lowest Sinksof
Vice.
NEW York, April 81. = It was moi
"Jack the Ripper" of Whitechapel,
who butchered the wretched woman Of
the Water street quarter on Friday
morning. 1t was not even an unknown
stranger with maniacal frenzy for imi.
tating the London fiend's work and
stealthiness. The murderer was no
more than an old time frequenter Of
those noisome slums, well known to the
women as degraded as himself, with
whom he consorted.
The detectives who swarmed through
that vice reeking region did not find
him, but by nightfall they had at least
discovered his identity. This was last
night the confident belief of Inspector
Byrnes, who, from the Oak street police
station, had personally superintended
the work of his men. In his Judgment
he had not only found out who the mar.
derer was, but he had in his hands full
and minute descriptions of him and his
habits and under lock and key half a
dozen persons who could identify him.
He had added to this the full history of
the murdered woman with information
about her acquaintance and wander
ings, which may be of value in the rest
of the investigation.
His Name Unknown.
The name or the murder the inspector
does not profess to have discovered, but
Alxok l. 10 30. l.A. T.
cousin of one Of the suspects who were
arrested on Friday night. This suspect
was known in Water sereet as
"Frenchy," his real name is Francois
Possibly that is also the name of his
cousin, the murderer. The name, how
ever, doesn't matter. The important
facts are that he is well known to many
persons, he has been minutely described
and there should not be insurnountable
difficulties about tracing him. The
source of some of the information on
which the inspector based his conclus-
ions he was not willing to give out.
Discoveries So Far Made.
This is the story of the inspectors dis
c0verieS which he gave out. Six persons
who were arrested in Water street, had
been found, he said, to be well acquainted
with the prisoner called "Frenchy," who
had been proving around Water street
for long time. Tho other one was
known as "Frenchy's" cousin. The
women among the prisoners had often
been in the company Of both of the men.
They said that the two usually Travelled
together, but when one of them appeared
alone he generally went about inQuiring
for the other, whom he designated as his
cousin. 1t appeared from the statements
of these women that the cousins had fire.
quently gone with them to the East
River hotel.
Now on the night of the murder
"Frenchy," the man under ARE st, occu-
pied alone room No. 80, which was
across the hall from the room where the
murder was committed. When the in
spector heard the women's story he sent
again for Mamie Minctur, the woman
who let the couple into the hotel that
night, and said she recognized the man
who came in with the murdered woman
as "Frenchys' cousin.
Corroborative Facts.
This Identification was again further
strengthened by comparisons between
the descriptions which the prisoners had
given Of the cousin and which Mamie
Minctur had previously given Of the
man who accompanied Carrie Brown.
1u6 pIlsOubTS btlu Lu9 COUSIN WAS n
young man with light complexion,
brown mustache, sharp nose, u Derby
hat and u cutawav coat.
From this concurrence and for other
reasons, which he was not willing to
give out in full, Inspector Byrnes was
satisfied that the man who took Carrie
Brown into room No. "a that night and
then killed and mutilated her was the
cousin and companion in vice of the
man he had locked up in a cell.
There seems at last to be no doubt
that the old woman killed by supposed
"Jack the Ripper" was Barrie Brown.
John F. Fowler, aretail grocer, in whose
family the woman worked years ago,
identified the body yesterday. Carrie
told him she was born in Canada and
married sea captain named Charles
Brown. Two women employed in Bel
levve hospital also identified the body as
that of Carrie Brown