The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-25
JACK THE RIPPER
A Most Horrible Murder in New
York City.
THE VICTIM WAS A WOMAN
Who Was Mutilated In the Same Man,ar M
the Whitechapel victims-A Father
Kills His Whole Family.

NE" oRK, April M.-Last night man
ana woman registered at a cheap hotel here
as man and wife. They Immediately re-
tired and as nothing was seen of tboT1 tI,is
morning, the door of the room was broken
I'D. On the bed lay the woman covered
Win blood. She had been dead for hours.
I1er abdomen was ripped open with n
". DIoAen table knife that lay in the blood.
INC f4scefa had oeen cut and from appear
anCeS par was missing. The man had es-
Iaped' A very imperfect description NJ
MIN was given the police and thev went 70
worK on IL with the utmost secrecy and
SPGeu' Ihey think he is Jack the Ripner
tue coroner made hasty examination
OF tne body and found the woman had bsen
! ueau number of hours. He removed tbe
cIoGhes from her face and neck and revealed
@suasuy Vlsage. The tongue was out of the
InoQtn ana sWoOlen, the eyes bulged from
Vu01r socheLs and the nose was fattened To
Ihe lace and about the neck was a circle of
cougealed blood. The appearance of the
race convinced the coroner the woman had
nrs6 Oeen sJrangIed and then cut. On turn
ing over the body it was found the nur
uerer nad lett his mark. The broken end
VI hnlie had been used to make a larQe
cross on the base of the spine. Proprietor.
Jennings and the assistant housekeener
wary Munlton, told the police all thew
knew ABOUT the case. The housexeeney-l
sdiu Ghe murdered Woman's companion was
uecloedIy German in appearance but she
could not tell from his appearance how lone,
he had been In the country. She said he
lese1nDled a seafaring man. Mary said the
W. won -la! was Wen known character around
the nelghbOrhOod, but no one seems to know
her or where she lives. The police ara
securing the city and vessels around the
docks for the murderer.
Inc woman could not have been much
under sixty years of age. Her hair was
almost white and her features slammed
WIN the marks OF drunkenness and the
women OF the slums. The man accordino.
10 the clerk of the establishment. was
apparently not over thirty-two wears OF
age. In oulld he was light and of medium
height with light complexion. small
blonde mustache and blonde hair He did
not utter word in the hearing of any of
Tue people ABOUT the hotel, and the murder
LnusC nave Deen a no1seless one, as other
rooms on the same floor were occupied and
whisper could almost be heard through
the partitions
When the boy pushed open the door of
the room this morning, he beheld such a
scene OF horror as he will not forget to his
dying day. Stretched out oD the bed. naked
from tne waist down, lying on her right
'ANAA NOI4A eA-IlS B6lG ana twisted under
her, her head enyelop9d in fold after fold
OF cloth, the old woman Law stark
dead on mattress soaked with blood
She had been completely disemboweIied
and the terrific result of the operation was
drawn out and scattered over the lower
part OF the bed Whether any parts are
missing as was the case with the London
murders, IS not yet been fully ascertaiued.
When the coverings were removed from
the lace the expression was one of agony.
The woman evidently struggled hard be-
lore being strangled. The doctor who saw
the body says: whether by chance or
skill, the cut was made so as to effect the
object aimed at by the London Jack the
Ripper, VIZ: removal of the uterus.n
Inspectors Byrnes and Williams were
busy TILL late hour questioning a large
number OF people brought in. probably
more detectives are on this case than any
before known in New York
The woman was identified as one Navy
Brown, aged 90. A man known az
IF'renchy," who was an acquaintance OF
the dead woman, was arrested.
AT O'Clock this morning a man by tha
name of Adolph Kellenburg was arrested.
HIS description answers that of the muir
derer.