The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-06-30
JACK THE RIPPER
NEW YORK'S SENSATIONAL
TRIAL COMMENCED.
THE ALGERlAN'S LIFE AT STAKE.
Three Lawyers Fighting Hard to
Prove His Innocence - Micro
scopic Tests That Will Tell
Against the Prisoner.
By National Press association.

BIZ National Press association.
New York, June 80.-Ameer Ben Ali.
the Algerian vagabond, variously known
to che police as George Frank, Frank
Sherlock and Frenchy No, 1, and to New
York at large as Jack the Rip, er, is on
trial for his life before Recorder Smyth,
charged with the butchery of the old
woman Carrie Brown, alias Shakespeare,
in the East River Hotel on the night of
April %.
When the court opened at 1890 the
jury filed in and solemnly took their seats.
Chief Inspector Byrnes strobe into court,
accompanied by Detective Sergeants
NcClusky, Frink, Crowley and Aloncle,
and took a seat at the right of the bench.
On the benches at the back of the court
there were not more than dozen spec
tators, all morbid curiosity seekers be-
ing rigidly excluded by order of the Re-
corder.
Viscount d'Absac, the French Consul
General, and NJ. Edmond Heurtel, cOun-
sci to the French Consulate, seated
themselves near the counsel for the de-
fendant
Behind the bars of the prisoners pen
sat motley gathering of gaudily attired
women and tough looking men, Cherry
street FOUNDERS and habitues of the East
River Hotel, awaiting their turn to be
called as witnesses for the people.
The Algerian, closely attended by an
officer emerged from the pen and STUN
bled down to the table occupied by his
counsel. The prisoners hair was care
T,,1lv Il Ii !
was trimmed into some semblance of re-
speotability. He halted in front of the
jury, executed his peculiar salaam by
raising his hands with the palms extend
ed, placing the tips Of his fingers on his
breast and touching them to his lips,
and then dropped into his seat and fixed
his gaze on vacancy All eyes in tho
Sourt roolu we're nxed upon his yellow
and wrinkled Wis ge as he sat stolidly be-
tween his counsel, Lawyer Friend, and
the interpreter, blinking at the sunlight
that streamed full upon his face from
the southern windows.
Most of. the testimony taken was a
repetition of that delivered at the coro-
| ner's inquest six weeks ago.
Catherine McGovern, who first identi-
fed old Shakespeare's body; Policeman
jeremiah J. Griffin, who took the knife
arkey, who kept stragglers away from
the scene of the MURDER testified. As
the knife was passed from hand to hand
through the jury box Frenchy observed
it in an apathetic fashion.
A Point for Frenchy.
Mary Minetur, the girl who assigned a
room to Shakespeare and the missing
fair haired man on the night of the MUIR
1 4 IL
know who Shakespeare's companion was
or whether he had mustache or hazel
eyes or fair hair "He was tall and light
ish, " said Mary. 81 thought he might
J have hazel eyes because he was light
complexioned. The man certainly was
not Frenchy."
Microscopic Tests.
By microscopic tests it was shown
that the dark red spots upon the prison
| er's shirt and fingers were made by blood
mingled with intestinal fluid. The ex-
perts testified that in the scraping from
Ben Ali's nails were inhnitesimal bits of
the very food Carrie had eaten, mingled
with blood corpuscles. The woman was
old and thin blooded. The blood
corpuscles found upon the person Of
Frenchy No. l were shown to have come
from an an@nio person. Carrie Brown
was choked to death then her murderer
slashed at her senseless body.
The experts for the prosecution testi-
fed that minute inspection of the fine,
dried blood found upon "Frenchy's"
hands and clothes showed that it came
from dead, not living, body.
This is the most terrible evidence that
could be brought against Ameer Ben Ali.
Beside it the detectives testimony about
bloodstains OH the floor leading to his
room itself sinks into insignifoance.
But will it be strong enough to overcome
the feeling in the prisoners favor sure
TO be created by the absence Of the man
who led her to her death chamberf
The prisoners lawyers closely exem-
ined every witness aud are working hard
to save their client, They will claim
that it was Shakespeare's companion
who committed the crime, after which
he made his escape by the skyiight &c
the roof