Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-25
MURDER IN NEW YORK.

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 The Bloody Deed Enshrouded in Mystery-Maey Detectives Detailed on the Case.
 NEW YORK, April 24.-About 10:45 | o'clock last night man and woman en- | tered the East River hotel at Catharine | slip and Water street. The mans entry | in the registry reads Knickloi and wife. 1 The man was stranger, while the woman was a dissolute character who frequented the neighborhood. They were assigned to room on the top floor. This morning servant endeavored to awaken the couple, but did not succeed. The door of the room was forced and on the bed found the dead body of the woman disemboweled. The man had disappeared.
 The woman's companion undoubtedly
 committed the murder, everything in con
 nection with which recalls the frightful
 crimes of the Whitechapel Uondon) fend. He is described as being tall and slim and
 about 30 years old. He wore brown cut
 away coat and light-colored trousers.
 Previous to retiring last night the mur-
 dered woman said she was the daughter
 of Charles F. Brown, sea captain. She
 was under the influence of liquor at l oSSAA
 during the night, nor was any unusual
 noise heard. The knife with which the
 crime was committed was found under the
 bed and cloth bag, two pairs of specta-
 cles and handkerchief were found on the
 washstand. The bartender of the hotel, a
 woman named Mary Healy, and cham
 bermaid, Mary Minister, are under ar
 rest. The murdered woman was about
 sixty years of age.
 The police ts are a straining every nerve 1 to
 office detectives have been detailed to aid
 the ward detectives in the matter, and 8
 search is being made of all the down town
 lodging houses to ascertain whether any stranger had taken a room subsequent
 to the perpetration of the awful
 butchery The murdered woman has
 been positively identified as an all-night ''rounder" of many years standing in the
 which is similar in many respects to the Whitechapel district of London. Though the woman's name could not be ascertained, it was learned that she
 was known as Shakespeare" among , her associates. This sobriuuet was applied to her because of the fluent way l in which she repeated the lines of the : great bard. She was handsome, with striking features of Roman cast and a l lOTm Ol ToLudTkaDlo symmetry ? 8 woman of her age. There were : even traces of refinement visible be. l meath the marks left by life of dissipa a ton. The place in which the woman's life e was ended is known to the residents D in the locality as the ''house of all drinks. g It has bad reputation and is perhaps r one of the worst of it's class in the city y The police say numerous crimes have
 been committed within it's portals and :, only recently the bartender was arrested u for cutting man down with sabre O The police and detectives have beer 's busy all night gathering in suspicious
 characters. At a. m. @ man by the nam, y of Adolph Kaldenberg was taken to tn, Il Oak street station house by Officer Mitchell s, of the Sixth precinct and locked up. Fl, $, answers the description of the murderer n The woman was identified tonight b, " Mary Harrington, who keeps lodginl house on Oliver street, as Carrie Brown.