The record-union., 1891-04-25
Special to the Rrconn.uSron.

| Special to the RECoRD-U MON.
| NEW York, April 24.-I.ast night a
man and woman registered at a cheap
hotel here as man and wife. They imme-
dlately retired, and, as nothing was seen
OF thom this morning, the door of the
room was broken III. On the bed Law the
woman covered with blood. She had
been dead for hours. Her abdomen was
ripped open with duh, broken table
knife that lay in the blood. The viscera
had been cut, and from appearances part
of it was missing. The man had es-
capped, a very imperfect description of
him was given the police, and they went
to work on it with the utmost secrecy
| and speed. They think he is Jack the
Ripper"
Tho Coroner made hasty examina-
ton of the body and found that the
woman had been dead number of hours.
lie removed the clothes from her face
and neck and revealed ghastly visage.
The tongue was cut out of her mouth and
swollen, the eyes Dulged from their sock
cts, the nose was 1lattened to the face. and
about the neck was a circle of congealed
| blood. The appearance of the face con-
WINGED the Coroner that the woman had
! first been Stranglcd and then cut On
| turning over the body it was found the
murderer had left his mark The broken
end of knife had been used to make n
large cross on the base of the spine
Proprietor jennings and assistant
housekeeper Mary Monitor told the
| police all they knew about the case. The
| housekeeper said the murdered woman's
| companion was decidedly German in an
! pearancc, but she could not tell from his
appearance how long he had been in this
country. She said he reSembled a sea-
iaring man. Mary said the woman was
a well-lnown character around The neigh
| borhood, but no one seems to know her
| or where she lived.
| The police are securing the city and the
vessels around the docks for the murderer.
| The woman could not have been much
under 80 years OF age. Her hair was al
most white, and her features stamped
with marks of drunkenness and the out
/ ter She was typical specimen OF
! woman Of the Sluns.
| The man, according to the clerk of the
establishment, was apparently not over
! - years of age. In build he was slight, Of
| medium hight, with light complexion.
small blonde mustache and blonde hair
| he did not utter a word in the hearing of
any people about the hotel, and the muir
der must have been nOiSpleSS one as
/ other rooms on the same floor were occu-
| pied, and whisper could almost be
! heard through the partitions.
When the boy pushed open the door of
/ the room this morning he beheld such
| scene Of horror as he will not forget to
! his dying day. Stretched out on the bed
| naked from her waist down, lying on her
right side, with both arms twisted and
! bent under her, her head enveloped in
| fold after fold of cloth, the old woman lay
stark dead on u mattress soaked with
blood. She had been completely disem-
! boweled, and the terrible result of the
operation was drawn out and scattered
over the entire lower part of the bed.
Whether amy parts are missing as was
the case with the London murders has
not yet been fully ascertained.
When the coverings We're removed
from the face the expression was one of
agony. The old woman evidently strug-
gled hard before being strangled. A doc
tor who saw the body says, whether by
chance or skill, the cut was made SO as 10
effect the object aimed at by the London
| Jack the Ripper" namely, the removal
of the uterus.
inspectors ByrneS and Williams were
! busy until late hour tonight question
ing large number Of people brought III.
Probably more detectives are working ON
this case than any ever before known IN
New York.
The woman was identified tonight as
one Carrie Brown, aged 30. The man
known as "Frenchy," who was an ac-
quaintance of the dead woman, has been
arrested.
NEW York, April 25.-At O'Clock this
morning the police arrested man by the
name OF Adotph Killimber.a His descrip-
! ton answers that Of the murderer.