The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-05-01

An Await Crime Committed Ia New Yorh
| After the Fashion az Those rerpcsrated
byJsek the Ripper In t.ondon-The Police
tsing Every Ensieavor 10 Run Down the
~ Present unknown Assassin.
NEW ioEK. April 2G.--Incl the Rip
per Is believed by the police 70 have ut
last come 70 this city Yesterday in
the East River hotel. the body ~ q
wretehed woman was found with her
abdomen horribly cut and her bowels
protruding Her name is not known.
The resort in which her body was found
Is one II the lowest In the city. II Is
located on the southwest corner IL
Catherine and Market streets The
woman was known about the neighbour
hood as one 81 the half-drunken crca-
lures who hang about the low resorts
Of Water street and the river side. She
went "a the hotel in company with n
man who registered as knickloi and
wife. The couple were assigned 70
room on the upper floor, and retired 10
| II AZ once. Nothing was seen or i.eard
Of them during the night. No cry or
unusual noise was heard. In the morn
ing the attendant raped on the door
There was no answer. and he raped
again with no better result. and
finally broke in the door. A horrible
sight met his gaze. On the bed lay the
woman in big pool Of blood. She had
been dead for hours. Her abdomen had
been fairly ripped open with duh.
broken table knife that lay in the pool
OF blood The viscera had been cut
and from appearances part was miss
ing
The womans head was bandagcd.
A cloth had been tied about her neck
and face, but whether for any foul
purpose or to hide any other traces
/ Of murder the attendant did not wait
to see. lie gave the alarm at the Office
and a messenger was hastily dispatched
to the police station. The police re-
sponded at once. and after viewing the
body the captain Of the precinct in
which the murder was committed lost
no time in notifying police head
quarters Of the horrible tragedy.
and in a short while Inspector Byrnes
had three Of his sharpcst detectives
on the case.
No one has seen the man since he
went upstairs with the murdered
woman. lie had escaped under the
cover of night when the bloody
deed was done. a very imperfect de-
scription was given OF him To the POI
lice, and they went 10 work with much
secrecy TO nnearth the murderer. The
little that could he learned about the
fI.n< I-l
and was about 8. years old. At
noon a detective arrested an old crony
Of the dead woman. but she was too
drunk to tell what she knew. She was
locked up TO sleep off the effects Of her
liquor. and the police hope that she
will nj least give them some further
clew. The house in which the tragedy
was committed i guarded on all sides.
and no one is allowed to approach the
upper floors.
The coroner fcnnd the womans petit
coat tied securely around her head
After this was taken off a sheet was
found. and below this the woman's
che-rise was tied around her head with
one OF Eer stockings. The face was in
dented by the force Of the bandages
On the woman's back. near the base Of
the spine. the mark Of cross had been
made with the knife. Similar marks
were found on the bodies Of the London
victims Of Jack the Ripper.
The police are strnining every nerve
to apprehend the murderer. Four cen
trial Office detectives have been de-
tailed to aid the ward detectives in the
matter. and search is being made Of
all the downtown lodging houses 10
ascertain whether any stranger had
taken room subs quent to the per-
pctration OF the awful butchery. The
murdered woman has been positively
identified as an n'l-night 'roundcr'
Of many years standing IN the
district where the crime was com
mitted. which Is similar in many
respects to the Whitechapel district 81
London. Though the woman's real
name could not be asccrtaincd. il waa
learned that she was known as Shakes
peare" among her associates. This So
briquet was applied 10 her because Of
the fluent way in which she repeated
the lines Of the great bard She was a
handsome woman. with striking feat
urcs Of a roman east and form of re-
narkable symmetry for woman OF
her age. There are even traces Of re-
finemcnt visible beneath the marks left
BY a life of dissipation.
The place i'm which the woman's life
was ended is known to the residents in
the locality rs the house Of all drinks"
II has bad reputation and is proba-
sbly one of the worst OF its class The
police say that numerous crimes have
been committed within rs portals and
only recently the bartender was ar
rested for cutting man down with a
saber
The woman was identified last night
Ivy Mary Harrington. who keeps lolg-
ing house on Oliver street. as Carrie
Brown.
At 10 o'clock last night two detectives
arrested Young Frenchman. who is
called ''Frenchy." 1t Is claimed that
"Frenchv" was seen with the Brown
woman on Thursday night at about 10
o'clock. This he strcnuously denied
lie was locked up Altogether the po-
lice. up to midnight. had arrested four
men and seven women who are sup