Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-01
JACK THE RIPPER AGAIN.
A Woman BruiualIy Murdered I'm a
New York Lodging House.

New YORK April PA murder
as horrible in it's details as those re-
Gently committed In the White
chapel district of London and at
tributed to Jack the Ripper was
perpetrated in hotel in the most
populas part of this city somewhere
between the hours of ii o'clock last
night and 4 o'clock this morning by
an unknown man, who has disap-
peared rs nysteriously as if the
earth had opened and swallowed
him.
1t was IL o'clock last night when
a man ard woman passed through
the narrow, dark and unsavory en-
trance of the East River Hotel, at
the corner of Catherine and Water
streets. The place is popularly
known as the he-"Fourth Ward Hotel"
1t is cheap lodging house owned
by one James Jennings. The wo.
man who could not have been under
60 years Of age, wore an old black
skirt and waist and on her head was
flung q shawl. She was a typical
specimen of the drunken harridan
of the slums. Her companion, the
man whom the entire police force of
New York is now bending its ener-
gies 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 a day,
to all appearances, over 81 or 81
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 blonde mus
tache and blonde hair.
ASKED FOR ROOM.
The man and the woman asked for
room. The woman did the talking.
Indeed, the mans voice does not APP
pear to have been heard by any one
but his victim. Mary Winter, who
is the assistant housekeeper of the
"Fourth Ward Hotel" met them in
the passage way leading from Water
street into the lodging house. She
told them they could be accommo-
dated with room, and she asked
the man his name.
"Put him down g. Nicolo," said
the woman, and so the assassin was
registered.
The woman, when she came in,
was in a cheerful mood and APP
parently slightly under alcoholic in
tiuence. She laughed at the very
first and asked her companion to
buy her beer. He asked if it could
be taken to the room and the hotel
girl, Winter, told hlm Eyes" 70
this he made no reply, but handed a
l0-cent piece to the woman without
single word. She asked him il
she might get the beer and he simp-
ly nodded his head. The woman
then changed her mind and instead
OF beer she decided to have mixed
ale. Mary Winter went and got it
for her and took the dime the strange
man had given in payment.
A GASTLY DISCOVERY.
After the drink had been supplied
the woman she and her companion
went up stairs to room 81, ON the
top floor, the key of which had been
given the male stranger by Clerk
Fitzgerald. Nothing was seen Of
the couple during the night, and the
proprietor of the house, who slept in
an adjoining room, says tina the
heard no noise or disturbance of
any sort.
Fitzgerald says that this morning
when the couple did not appear he
went to the room about 9 o'clock to
rouse them up. He found the door
locked, and after knocking several
times and getting no response, he
began to shove it in. After time
lie succeeded, when horrible sight
was presented. On the bed in a
pool of blood lay the body of the
unfortunate woman. SO cold as to
suggest that she had been dead fol
some hours.
The body was completely naked
A deep cash extended from the
lower part of the abdoman upward