New-York tribune., 1891-05-14
THE CARRIE BROWN INQUEST
sRENcHY No. MAY BE HELD FOR THE
RIPPER" MURDER.
w.urr CROWDED ABOUT THE CARRIAGE AND
SHOOK THEIR FISTS AS he WAS TAKEN
THROUGH THE STREETS.

THROUGH THE STREETS.
,,srs.+ IN the murder of Carrie Brown at the East
p,ver Hotel was revived yesterday morning wheh
|,.,n. ecbulsz began the inquest The three parors
an tho second aoor Of the Coroners office in second
~. we're crowded at an early hour. There were
.,sat women present who, In way or Other came
m contact with Carrie Brown before her body was
taken 10 Salem for burial. They were all srrayed In
trteht-colored garments, and occupied front scs's
Mary Ann Lopez, Mary Mniter and Dublin Mary"
were among them.
At 10 80 O'Clock Aineer Ben Ali, "Frenchy NO.
Il arrived. He hsndcufed to Detective sergeant
ncCloskey, and had an additional guard in the shape
Of Detective Grody.
The Jury proved to be somewhat OF surprise
The man who took the foremans seat was none otner
than ex Charity Commissioner Thomas Brennan, BACK
Of him was Harry Miner. Of theatrical fame. James
Trainer, George T. Putney, George BrocKwas' AeA-
ander +. Slaughter, Richard NJ Walters, the piano
manufacturer; Charles W. Iden, James swan August
strasburg Jacob Ruppert, jr, and L. j. MerNee maae
up the rest OF the jury. Levy, Friend d House ap-
pearcd for the prisoner, and +. W. Wellman for the
District-Attorney's Office.
The first witness was Mary Corcoran, the house
keeper OF the East River Hotel she saio
that she saw the woman known as Carrie Brown Or
shakespeare on the night Of the murder ana saw
her body the next morning. on the evening I'D
question she came into the hotel with woman named
Healey and got a drink. The two stayed about half
an hour and then went out. II was about IL O'CLOCK
when Shakespeare came into the "box" Tor orihh
with the Healey woman. The box, the witness ex.
plaiDed was place in which the women sat when
drinking. In this place at that time were Mary
Madigan Jennie Lynch Mamie Miniter and the witness
herself She did not see Carrie Brown again unuI
the next morning when Bddie Fitzgerald. the clerk,
told her woman was in Room 81 with blood all over
her,"
Police Captain Richard o'Connor, of the Oal-st.
station was called. He said that he was the rS'
police officer to visit the scene OF the murder
The captain said he found few drops Of blood in the
hallway leading from Room No. 81, where the woman
was murdered, to Room No. 33, where "Frenchy NO.
IL slept that night On the panel Of the door OF Room
No 49, about three feet from the floor and near the
handle was q mark of blood about the shape OF the
end OF three fingers; from this mark was thin marx
about foot in length, which looked as If the blood
had drpped from The clot left by the finger MARKS
on the inside Of the door there small spot OF
blood on the paint On the bed in Room No. 33 were
two spots Of blood One about the size
OF a mans hand and the other was somewhat smaer'
Captain Mclaughlin told of the discovery Of te
drops OF blood in the hall between Room 81 ana DO
There were three small drops and they were ABOUT
foot from the door OF Room SO. They were discovered
by Captain Mclaughlin and Detective Sergeant
Crowley as they were cutting some bloodstained
paper from the wall TO the right OF Room 49,
The next witness Detective Sergeant Michael
J. Crowley. lie told how he saw the woman ana ex-
turned inside ont if somebody had r1ned then ana
the small cloth bag which carried by the woman
and which lay the oor was also turned lnsoe out
Detective jeremiah J. Griffin of the Oak-st station,
testified that did not the blood marks In the
hall the morning after the murder, but on the next
day This testimony was a point for the defendaht
as the previous witness had testified that Captain
Mclaughlin had cut out the stained wood and paper
ON the morning the murder was discovered
Eddie Fitzgerald, the bell boy of the East River
Hotel who first discovered the body of Carrie BrOwn
said that his duties were to give guests thelr keys
and /. let them 90 up to their rooms alone" On
the night of the murder he let one man go up 10 one
of the rooms on the top floor. That man was the
prsoner He gave him the key to Room No 80, ana
n new green candle. "E1enchy' then went up W hle
room Eddie stayed up all night, and at O'CLOCK LII
the morning sweeping up the Dafroon'
Frenchys came down stairs and entered the room
He crept along the partition turning his race 10 the
wall as if TO avoid recognition
ale kinder sneaked out" said Eddie, VI ana goihs
through the room entered the box ana went ouu VI o
side door,
man who was with her when they came in lie oia
no, sa the man when lie left the hotel did ne know
of any one who did. Mary Miniter let Shakespeare
"a hr comnanion in Frenchy's" name was not
put in the register that night, ana any i Mae en m
pnt down for Shakespeare's companion MANY I1n it
were in the habit OF coming down ana solns & Uur @ ay
the street through the box but the %thesS ines
LETT the place on the morning following the murder dow
49, Dr GYMS Edison was the last witness OF thc DAY
He identfhed several envelopes which ne saa con- con,
ained pieces of clothing dirt from beneath Erencay &
Tneernas aud the wood and wallpaper chlpped i0ln
the Fast River Hotel In all of which were corpuscles
of blood resembling those IN human 9Doy y - AitSe t6e
nr Edson had finished, the Coroner the Jury the
prisoner and the lawyers entered carriages ana were
driven TO the East River Hotel, where tle roonS on
the TOP floor and the rest of the building were care
fully examined. -, c,oo-,. omoo
all dsy and when the prisoner was taken 10 the
carriage It was all the police could DO to Keep ihe
elmtar scene was enacted. When the party came out
~ the nlare a crowd of women crowded around the
VI r in which the prisoner sat, and many of them
sSonE their fists at him. Some after the carriage
i0 The Inquest win be resumed at 10 80 O'Clock this
morning.
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