St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
A DissoIute Woman Of the
Slums Murdered in Jacks
Inimitable Style.
His Bloody Cross Is on the
Base OF the Spine of the
Victim.
The Police Have a Good Des-
eription of the Murderer
to Work On.

mangled as he mangied her predecessors
in the grim list in London, lies now as
he left her in the garrett where the deed
was done. Further 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 close
and clear description of him. and if
brought face to face with him can iden-
tify him positively. The story of the
| crime is horrible in its simplicity and in
| its familiarity. Under different sur
rOundings, and with notifications incl
dent to those surroundings, it is an
| exact repetition of the horrible atroci-
| ties of Whitechapel. The scene is in
little dirty squalid room up on the fourth
ahd tOpmost floor of wretched lodging
| house, known as the East River house,
| and kept by one James Jennings.
The house is at the cor
ner of Water and Catharine
streets and is designated as 16 Catharine
Slip. The entrance proper is on Water
street. The door here opens into
short hallway. At the end of this pass
age flight of narrow, worn wooden
stairs goes up to the floor above. Here
book is kept called register. and III
this register Edward Fitzgerald, the
clerk of the house, writes such names
as persons seeking rooms for the night
choose to give him. Through this
Water street doorway and up the flight
of stairs there came, at 10:45 last night
two persons. One was a woman who
could not have been much under
Sixty Years OF Age.
Her hair had passed the iron gray
stage and was almost white. Her feat
ureS were small, irregular and stamped
with the mark Of drunkenness and the
gutter. She wore an old black skirt
and waist, and on her head was flung
shawl. She was typical specimen OF
the drunken old harridan of the slums.
Her companion. the man whom the en-
tire police force of New York is now
bending its energies to capture, was
the opposite in nearly every. respect to
the woman. In point of years he
might have been her son. He was
not day.tO all appearances, over thirty
one or thIrty-tWO years of age. In build
he was slight, and he was not over five
feet eight inches in height. He had
light complexion, a small blond mus
tache ana blond hair. The woman,
when she came in, was in cheerful
mood, and apparently under alcoholic
influence. She laughed at the very
first, and asked her companion to buy
her beer. 10 this he made no reply, but
handed 10-cent piece over to the WOm-
an without single word. She asked
him if she might get the beer.
and he simply nodded his head.
l'IRTE- FItTUlr0iH n Oetrnd tEnna hot
he should put upon the register. To
this the man replied with what sounded
to the clerk like Q. KniciO, and so he
wrote it upon the hotel register. In all
probability the stranger endeaYOred to
give the German name NicOlai-C. Mic
olai. Whether or not that is his real
name remains to be seen. That the
horrible butcher deliberately set out to
find victim seems beyond question. just
as 1t IS apparently equaIlysure that the
only motive for the deed was sheer brute
thirst for blood and horrible mutilatiou.
At all events, with sputtering candle
in his hand, he led the way up three
flights Of stairs above the floor where
the sO-called Office is kept and reached
the fourth or top floor Of the house. The
room assigned to him was No. 81. 1t is
the corner room and, like all the other
rooms Of the house, it was a mere
STYLE of Hole.
On narrow bed next the partition
wall was a grimy, greasy mattress and
pillow and a few wretched bed clothes.
There was one old wooden chair in the
room, and dirty, rickety little wash
stand. Into this little den, which was
soon to be turned into so horrible a
slaughter-pen, the gray-headed. half
drunken woman and the young pale
faced man WPrn shown Tho r1rroa
manded for the accommodation was 80 |
cents. The man paid it and said |
nothing. Not a soul in the house |
heard him speak. At 10 o'clock this |
morning d boy whose duty it is |
to rouse the tardy dodgers, pushed open |
the door of No. 81, and there beheId such /
scene OF horror as he will not forget |
to his dying day. Stretched out on the /
bed, naked from the waist down, lying on /
her right side, with both arms twisted |
and bent under her, her head envelOped |
in fold after fold of cloth, the old woman
lay stark dead on a mattress soaked
with her blood. She had been COM
pletely dISemboweled, and the terrible
result of the operation was drawn
out and scattered over the
entire lower part of the bed.
The boy, after one glance at this ap-
palling spectacle, flew away and gave
the alarm. HOllc6 capt. - COnn0r and
two roundsmen made a careful search
of the room, and on the floor close bv
the bed, with its haft and blade still
wet with blood. lay the knife with which
the deed was done. 1t was a cheap, or
dinary table knife, with it's blade
broken diagonally off about half its
length and ground down to a sharp edge
and point. This and small cloth reti-
cule in gay cOlors Capt. O'Copnor car
ried to the station house. Coroner
Shultz, at 2 o'clock, went to the room
of the tragedy. The body lay precisely
as it had been found. The coroner
showed it gently over on its right side,
revealing fully
The Awful Nature
of the muIiIation. The cut extended
from the middle Of the abdomen down
through the length of the IGaSfre alb
dOminal cavity. The entraiIs were
scattered over the lower portion of the
bed. 1t looked as though they had been
furiously dragged out in wild frenzy
of blood. Whether any of the parts are
missing, as was the case with the Lon
don murders, has not yet been fully
ascertained. The woman was either
stone dead or insensible at the time the
mutilation was inflicted. She had