The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-25

A later dlBpatcn bAyb' NOW Iet tue
police Of New York prove their boasted
superiority over the police Of London.
Jack the Ripper is here. He has done
his unspeakable work. His victim,
mangled, as he mangled her predecessors
in grim lust in London, lies now as he
left her, in the garret where the deed
was done.
Farther than that, the weapon used
has been found and is in the hands OF
the police. But more than all, Jack the
Ripper himself was seen before he did
his bloody work. The girl who saw him
is able to give q close and clear descrip.
ton Of him, and II brought face 70 face
with him can identity him positively.
The story Of the crime is horrible in
It's simplicity and in its familiarity.
Under different surroundings and with
notifications incident to those surround.
ines, it is an exact repetition Of the hor-
ri6le atrocities OF White Chapel. The
scene is in q little dirty squalid room
rpou the fourth and top.moBt door ot a
wretched lodging house known as the
East River house, apd kept by one
James Jennings.
THE TRAGEDY.
Through the Water street doorway
and up the aisht OF stairs there came at
1O:45 last night two persons. One was
woman who could not have been
much under sixty years Of age. Her
hair had passed the iron.grsy stage and
was almost white. Her features were
small, irregular and stamped with the
mark Of drunkenness and the gutter.
Her companion, the man whom the
entire police force Of New York is now
bending It's energies to capture, was the
opposite in nearly every respect to the
woman. In point OF years he might
have been her sou. He was 10 all ap.
pearances about thirty.two years ofsge.
In build, he was slight, and was not
over 5 feet 8 inches in height. He had
light complexion, email blonde mus
tache.
The woman, when she came in, was in
a cheerful mood and apparently under
alcoholic influence. shelaughed ct the
very first, and asked her companion TO
buy her beer. To this he made no re-
ply, but handed ten cent piece over to
The Voman without single word. She
asked him II she might get the beer,
and he Rrimly nodded bis head.
He was assigned room No. 81, on the
fourth or top floor Of the house. II 10
the corner room, and like oil the other
rooms in the house, 1t was o mere hole.
Into this little den which was soon
to be turned into 80 horrible
q slaughter pen the gray head.
ed, hall drunken woman and the
young, pale faced man were shown. The
price demanded for the accommodation
was fifty Centa. The man paid il and
said nothing. Not q soul In the house
heard him speak.
at 10 o'clock this morning boy,
whose duty it is to rouse the tardy
lodgers, discovered the murder. The
woman yss completely disemboWeled,
and the terrible result ot the opera.
ton was drawn out and scattefed'oyer
the entire lower part Of the bed. \
Coroner Schultz, at 2 2o'clock, went to
the !eom Of the tEegedy. The body lay
precisely as 1t had been found. The eor.
ppeF showed 1t gently over on its right
elues revealing lully tpe awful nature Of
the mutilation. The cut eStended from
the middle Of the abdomen down
through the length OF the entire ab.
dominal cavity. The entrails were scat.
tered over the lower portion Of the bed.
II locked as though they had been
IiuTiouSly dragged ONT in q wild frenzy
Of blood. The woman hRd been etrsng:
lied 70 death. Tightly knotted about heI
throat 90 that itleft two red Welts when
removed, was Q portion Of the WfetcheL
creatute's chsmlSs.
\ A SILENT DEIp.
The deed must have been well nist
noiuOlsSs. The adjoining room Is only
separated by a thin board partition. l
would be almost possible to hear
|, whisper through It. But the man Wit
slept th9re heard not q sound. Th
aaSasBin did his work, stole quietl,
away, and Jack the Ripper's first blood,
; mark had been made in New York.
A doctor who saw the body before
I. was removed, says; whether b