The evening world., 1891-05-05
LAST EDITION.
is He GUILTY?
Frenchy May Not Be the Ripper
Who Butchered Old
Shakespeare.
New York's Detective Force
on Trial Before the World.
Byrnsss Proof Is Lacking on
Important Points.
Impressions Formed on q Visit 10 the
Prisoner In the TOmbS
Police Secrecy Seals Up the Murder
Stained Rooms.
Byrnss's Proof Is Lacking on
Important Points.
Impressions Formed on Q Visit 10 the
Prisoner In the TOmbS
Police Secrecy Seals Up the Murder
Stained Rooms.

10 the prisoner now locked In the Tombs,
New Yotk's Jack the Ripperf
This ID O question that is Interesting to the
whole community.
It IL possible that he ID. Anything 10 pos
sibie
But possibilities do not convict Convincing
proof 10 necessary.
eonyincing proef has not been produced
II the police have evidence that he 10 the
murderer OF Carrie Brown they are saving It
for future use. In the mean time the public 10
left in doubt. There is more at stake In this
case than the ordinary apprehension OF mur-
derer. The reputation Of our detective force
u IN question. We made great vaunt when
Scotland Yard failed to apprehend the perpe-
traitor OF the WhIteehapel murders- Now Scot
land Yard. and, indeed, every detective force
ip the World il loosinR towards ours.
Briefly summarized, here is the Gaze az II now
stands: On the night Of Thursday. April n,
az old woman accompanied BY younger man
took room on the top door OF the East River
Hotel. The man signed the register! He was
seen by several habitues OF the place. The
next morning the old woman was found dead
in bed hacked in most brutal manner. The
msu was missing.
Ats 30 O'Clock on that evening, ABOUT twelve
hoprs sfier the discovery Of the murder,
George sherliek, Ben All or Frenchy No. /,
whatever his name may be, was arrested IN
the saloon OF the same hotel, and five days
later Dr. Cyrus Edison. the head OF the city q
Sanitary bureau and Chief Inspector Of Con-
tagious Diseases, announced to the reporters
that Frencny No. was the murderer, and
made this statement:
Inspector Byrnss. to my mind. is ths greatest
dstectiye that ever lived. He has worked unooas-
ingy. night and day, on this theory since the muir
der was found out. and the way in whioa he has
fsrreted out and followed every straw that pointed
way to the end Is something simply msrv ilous.
Out OF muddie Of utter confusion. without bottom
my sight an awful arraignmsnt Of the murderer.
which he can never escape.
There were no doubts In Mr.. Edson's mind,
which Is thus put on record. And this In wha'
he pased his opinion on:
Frenohy occupied q room on the same nool
- that In which the murder wss commit ell.
He had been acquainted with the murdered
woman. Blood stains were on his shirt ant
on the mattress OF his room.
In the dirt under bis nnger nails were fount
was al human blood. The reason DR.. EdsoI
gave for the brutal crime Was that Frencnl
was sem'-tdiot Of purely criminal iusIinc's 8,
and that the woman had refused his importu
nisles and that he had then slaughtered her.
One OF the weaknesses In the chain OF eVi
denee against this man Is motive.
Here 10 what Mr.. Edson said OF MIN on tW,
occasions;
He lisa peculiar being. We examined him, and
eOuSiadsd that he w'S an imbsOils.
He Is peculiar being. and from the eIamiu alton
made Of him do not hesitate to say that be Is Al
inbsoie. and sm sorry that Suoh being eanno
be made to suffer the full penalty for such honibl
crime. Shall be witness In the case, aud by tina
time will be better able 10 tell of his true oondl
tion.
Mr., Edson's grief about the man Ton tn
basis that he 10 guilty. going free as sn lido
is thrown away. And u idIoiic tendencies ar
offered AZ reason for the ornie on the tria,
the case tor the prosecution will DO material
weakened. Mr.. Enson has not yet conude
TO The pullic on what he bases his belief regard
ing the mans SemLidiocy. He promises TO d
30 81 the inques. From a scl-ntinc standpoin
this viii prove Interesting, tut whether ht ca
bring Jury TO his frame OF mind Is question
Eor AN IDIOT
the truth be known tue man Is by n
means an idiot He is rather Keen and inteli
gent. The dfnculy in his define so far
his inability to make himself Understood
Something that occurred yesterday may Civ
an Id OF his mentsl calibTe.
When taken to the connsel-room OF III
T"mbs yesterday he did moi recognize one
Ine nriu OF laWy'r, VINO had heen assigned I
his deienss. Another member OF the Drm ha
told him MOI 70 talk TO Outsid, r. AA soon
frenehJ un,erstood that he WAS 10 be queI
honsd he got up. walked quietly to the doc
aud Rallsd the bell summoniag the keeper