Evening journal., 1891-04-25

victims-rhr Unfortunate Creature Was
strangIed and Disembowcled.
NRw YORK, April 25.-The strong prob.
ability that Londons fiend in human
form, Jack the Ripper" has transferred
| his field Of operations from Whitechapel
/ to the slums OF New York has sent a thrill
OF horror throughout the metropolis The
slaughter OF the woman Carrie Brown, or
Shakespeare as she was familiarly
known, In a squalid room on the fourth
floor Of "the East River House, dis
| reputable dive on the corner Of Water and
Catharine streets, in many particulars
closely resembles the work of the White
chapel flend, and the police are strongly
| OF the opinion he is really in New York
The main difference which this crime pre-
sents from the London buteheries lies in
the fact that the New York victim was
strangled, whereas the murderer's work
in London was invariably begun by cut
| ting the throat
This may be explained by the difference
in circumstances surrounding the crime
In London, with the murder done on the
open street. it was necessary TO prevent
even the slightest outcry, such as might
have even resulted from fairly skilIful
strangulation.
A Necessary Preliminary.
Therefore, the cutting Of the windpipe
was an invaluable and necessary prelimi.
nary. That was not so in the New York
crime, the murderer being safe from oh
seryation and in place where almost any
outcry would fail to attract attention.
The police are straining every nerve K
apprehend the murderer. Four Centra
office detectives are aiding the ward de
tectives in the matter, and a search hal
been made of all the down town lodgins
houses TO ascertain whether any STRANGE
has taken a room subsequent to the per
petration of the awful butchery. Thi
murdered woman has been positively iden
tilted as Carrie Brown, an all nigh
''roundern Of many years standing IN tn
district where the crime was committed
which is similar in many respects to tn
Whitethapel district Of London. She wa
known as Shakespeare among her asso
ciates. This sobnquet was applied to he
because Of the fluent way in which she re
peated the lines Of the great bard.
She was handsome woman, with strik
ing features Of a Roman cast and forr
Of remarkable symmetry for woman Z
her age. There are even traces Of refinl
ment visible beneath the marks left by
life Of dissipation.
y The House Of All Drinks"
!, The place in which the womanis life wa
ended is known to the residents in the l.
cality as the House Of all Drinks" IL hG
a bad reputation and is perhaps one Of tl
worst OF its class in the city. The polio
say numerous crimes have been committe
within its portals and only recently th
bartender has been arrested for cutting
: man down with a saber.
2 The story Of the Murder.
The story Of the murder in detail is a
follows: The East River hotel is fiy
story brick. building painted yellow
i stands at Water street and Catharine sli
and towers above the other buildings
a its low neighborhood, and outwardly
neat. IL has corner saloon entrance,
family entrance where women come II
dissolute ones who make their living
= the neighborhood. Then, still furthl
: south on Water street, is the hotel ei
trance The place is kept by Samuel Je
, nings.
!, On Thursday night among the 9TH
lnfortunates who came to the hotel WI
an old woman, gray, not bent. She WI
Il dressed in blue checked gingham, and ca
u ried little red calico bag with her han
y kerchief and two pairs Of spectacles. 81
X must have been sixty, her hair was
& nearly white With her was Nam
d Healey, poor sodden wretch. They ha
I a glass OF beer, the two women. The
Mamie Healey, with her rags and hi
drunkenness, went out into the wet stree
For fear she would 20 to sleep old Shalx
speare, with her little red bag and her thii
weazened, painted cheeks, wandered fort
too, into the rain. Il was II o'clock whe
the bell Of the hotel door rang. Mary Min
ter answered it, The old woman was the
again and had man with her Mary Mir
ter, the housekeeper said she would ha'
thought, II she hadn't known so muG
about the neighborhood, that he was o
Shakespeare'ss son. He was a young cha
an sort O. slim" They asked for a rooT
She Wanted Mixed Ale.
The man asked for fifty cent room an
gave his name as G. Nicolai and sal
Shakespeare was his wife. "Aw" sa
the old woman, with coayying look at Il
man, cant have some baerf" He new
spoke; just nodded his head and took OF
his pocketbook and drew from it ten cent
II Beer or mixed ale?" asked Mary Miniti
as she took the dime
!, "Mixed ale" answered Shakespeare.
q Mary Miniter went to the bar, got a pa
rs Of mixed ale, brought il back and hands
y it to the old woman, and &C. Nicolai an
4 wife" went up the narrow, uneven stair
le four flights. Mary Miniter said Goo
= | night" and went about her business.
81 The night at the East River hotel passs
G. much as most nights do there. It is doub
y ful If the place is ever closed.
I'll When morning came the front door WI
ID opened, and at Q o'clock the housekeep
asked Eddie Fitzgerald to 90 up and ''clel
y the floors"
AZ It Was Horrible Sight.
& When he reached the fifth floor Fit
y gerald came TO 81, that corner room. II
y door was tightly closed. Fitzgerald ga
u a succession Of vigorous raps on the doc
sf No answer. Again and again Fitzgera
ii hammered at the door Then he ran dow
g and asked Mary Miniter for the keys /
: went back and opened the door OF 81. 7
nt the left Of the door, against the wall, sto,
n, the bed. The door opened against it, al
y Fitzgerald had to pass the doors wild
and get away into the center Of the roo
before his sight fell upon that bed.
IN There, nude from feet to breast, lay o
r Shakespeare. Above the shoulders only
he confused mass of clothing, and the be
clothes tumbled over against the wa
The woman's feet were toward the doc
She lay at the outer edge of the bed, b
'i her head was on the center of the pislo'
Blood on everything. Blood on the sheet
81 quilts, bedstead and floor, smeared
u finger marks upon the limbs, which we