Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-02
NEW Works. FAMOUS CASE.
The Prosecution Rests In the Trial o
"Frenchy' for Murder.

The Prosecution Rests In the Trial of
"Frenchy" for Murder.
The people have rested their case against
Ameer Ben Ali. alias Jack the Ripper on
trial in New York for the murder of Carrie
Brown. Here is a man on trial for his life upon
whose conviction the reputation Of the police
department of New York is at stake as it rarely
has been before. The witnesses, upon whose
testimony the prosecution chiefly rely to make
out a case against the prisoner. are creatures
of the most abandoned type. Upon the testi-
mony of such beings as this it has been shown
that the prisoner slept in the hotel on the night
Of the murder that he went out a side door
the following morning; that the room he occu-
pied was searched for blood stains; that on
mattrass in that room. upon which scores of
filthy beings had wallowed through drunken
sleeps, blood stains found: that
there blood on the prisoners shirt:
that horrible creature. herself Grim
inal. who admitted he had been in her
company nj the time and place he told the de-
tectiyes he hail been there, denied that he got
the blood upon him in the manner he said he
lad got 1t; that while in prison serving a GEM
tence for vagraucy the accused had had a
knife of some Kind, which none of the three
witnesses called To establish this point would
identify with the knife found under the dead
woman that the murdered woman the day be-
baSe and cheese sandwich; that a strange
man. who went to the room with the murdered
woman and who was with her when she was last
seen alive. has never been seen from that day
70 this; that the prisoner when arrested was
within block and half of the scene of the
murder and had made no attempt to escape
and that when he was arrested he told some
lies. Such was the evidence mp TO yesterday,
when expert testimony produced to con-
vince the jury that particles of intestinal fluid
were found under Frenchvs nails. and Prof.
Formal OF Philadelphia took the stand.
The blood substances must have come from
the smaller intestines and nowhere else. An
examination of these intestinal contents with
| the blood stains showed conclusively that food
| had been partaken of. 1t was impossible to de-
4 termine II the given specimens of mamalia
blood was human blood or not. Other doctors
testified To the same effect
| Mary Harrington and Mrs. Healy testified to
| seeing ''Frenchy in the murdered woman's
| company al different times. Detective Fink
testified TO his discovery Of blood stains in the
/ East River Hotel and also under .Frenchy's"
| finger nails. He described also ''Frenchy's 81
/ blood-staiued clothes.
/ Capt Mclaughlin and other police officials
! corroborated Fink statements.
Detective Sergeant Crowley and Inspector
! Hyrnes testified and produced a number of ex-
hibits. Consisting of articles found on Frenchy.
\ together with pieces of his clothing. They
were followed by DIR. Formal, who gave expert
I testimony as to the stains found on Frenchy q
clothing and the bed he had slept in, after
which a recess was taken until 6:15 pm.
! AT the evening session Drs. Austin Flint and
| Cyrus Edson were called, and with their testi-
mony the prosecution rested.
The recorder denied a motion by Lawyer
House to acquit the prisoner on the ground of
| Insufficient evidence, and Lawyer Levy opened
the for the defense. When he had con-
Guided the court adjourned until today.