Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-01
SURELY THE RIPPER.
Startling Evidence Pointing to the
Guilt of Frenchy No. l.
SECRET OF INSPECTOR BYRNES.
His Story of the Awful Arraignment Of
the Murderer.
A DAUGHTER CLAIMS THE DEAD BODY
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.,

! ESPECIAL TELEGRAM To THE DIsPArcH.i
NEW YORK, April 3O.-The inquest in
| the case of Carrie Brown, the old woman
who was murdered and mutilated In the
East River Hotel on Thursday night of last
week, was to have begun this evening, and
DR.. Cyrus Edison, of the Health Depart
ment, was among the witnesses subp@nae2
by Coroner Scbultze. His was a new name
in the case, and the reporters tackled him to
find out what he knew about 1t. DR.. Edison
let out the secret that Inspector Byrnes had
been hiding for nearly week, that the eyi-
dence at hand pointed to the guilt Of
Frenchy No. 1, who has been under arrest
since Friday last.
This Frenchy occupied on the night OF the
murder room SO in the East River Hotel,
diagonally across the hall from room 81,
where the murder was committed. DR.. Edison
said that the police had found a trail of
blood across the hall from room 81 to room
80, and the blood stains in room SO on the
bed and on chair: that they also discovered
when Frenchy No. 1 was arrested that he
wore shirt stained with blood; that human
blood had been found under his finger Aails.
Edson's Eulogy of Byrnes.
1t was to the latter fact, the Doce. lid,
that he was TO testify. This is the outline
OF the story" said the Doctor: Inspector
Byrnes is to my mind the greatest detective
who ever lived. he has worked increasingly
night and day on theory since the murder was
it out and followed every straw is simply mar
velous. Out of the muddle of utter confusion,
without bottom of any single apparent fact TO
il, he has shaped in my sight an awful arraign-
ia
escape"
The reporter went to Inspector Byrnes. He
would neither confirm nor deny the story Of
DR.. Edison, but he returned the doctors COM
pliments on his ability saying: "Dr Edson is .
man who usually tells the truth" At this
time 1t had not been decided to adjourn the in
quest There was crowd at the Coroner's
Office at 2:30 P. NJ The jury was sworn. Then.
on behalf of the District Attorney. Mr.. Lind
say moved for an adjournment to May II, and
got it. So the reporters went back to Inspector
Byrnes, and to them he told a dramatic story.
Story of the Murder.
He began with the arrest of Frank Sherlick,
or Frenchy No. l. Frenzy No. l was at the
East River Hotel alone at 10 o'clock the night
of the murder, and he was there drinking at II
o clock when the old woman Shakespeare and
her companion came in and got their drinks
and went upstairs to room 81. This man
Frenchy was, as have stated before" con-
tinued the Inspector, "a man Of wicked and un-
y
reputation among women that mono of them,
except old Shakespeare. would have anything
to do with him.
ut is against the rules of the hotel for man
not accompanied by woman to go to the top
floor of the hotel. The night of the murder
Eddy Fitzgerald, the little bartender was on
duty at the hotel in charge of the door. He
did not know its rule. After Shakespeare and
her companion of that night had gone upstairs
Frenchy said to Eddy that he guessed he would
go to bed. and asked for a room on the top
fSnnr "lnv, r,oI,r
TO the station house, he had on no underclOth-
ing. He wore coarse shirt, pair of trousers
and pair OF SOCKS.
Many Tell-Tale Blood Marks.
"He was examined, and the lower part of his
shirt was found to be covered with blood in
front, 1t was just about where the blood would
strike had he stood over the woman by the side
of the bed. There was a blood mark on the
back of the neck of the shirt, just such mark |
as would be made by the woman if she had |
thrown up her hand and seized him while she |
was struggling in death grasp. There was a
splash of blood on the wristband of the shirt. |
and it was plain that an attempt had been |
made to ward it off. There were blood stains |
on one of his socks. |
ION the outside jamb of the door of room |
there were blood marks that looked as though |
the door had been pushed open with Just the |
tips OF bloody fingers. On the inside of tbs |
door were blood marks that looked as though |
the door had been pushed shut with the inside |
upper half of hand of bloody fingers. There |
were also blood marks on the door of room 81, |
where the murder was committed.
What Blanket Revealed.
There were spots of blood in the hail. very |
small and hardly discernible There were |
spots of blood on the floor of room 3S There |
was stain of blood on the chair in room 49, as |
though murderer had sat down in it. There |
were clots of blood on the blanket on the bed.
1t was an old army blanket. The clors were
Of human blood. The other stains on the
blanket looked as though bloody hands had
been wiped in it. There was blood on the bed |
tick. There were no sheets on the bed.
Now as to the man who went to the room
with Shakespeare" the Inspector continued
has been SO much talk, Sunday morning at
o'clock. We found that he ha1 spent the night
Of the murder four and half miles away from
the scene Of the murder. We simply let
Frenchy No 2 go. The man who went to the !
room with Shakespeare followed the custom of
the other men who take women to the hotel
and went out in short time.
Afraid to Come Forward,
"If he is an honest man he will naturally not
come forward and acknowledge the fact that
he went to the hotel with the woman As to
he prisoners stories He has lied to us in
,very instance when he has made statement
Nov come to the knife with which the muir
Knife to Frenchv or any one else. 1t is a very
,ommon sort of knife and such as might be
lsed In banana shops. That is why the inquest
vas adjourned to-day. to give us time"
ward said, gave the name of George Frank,
vas arraigned this afternoon before Judge
MARITIME. The hearing was postponed until the
conclusion of the inquest. The tody Of the
Emma Allen, her daughter, and by her order it
vas sent to her home, where it will receive