The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-25
A Frightful Crime in New York
Much Resembling Those Of
Whitechapel.
An Unfortunate Women Murdered
and the Body Most Shock
ingly Mutilated.
Mark of tho Whitechapel Fiend TOunt
ON the Corpss-SmalI Clue to
the Perpetrat0r.

NEW York, April 24.-Last night man
and woman registered at cheap hotel here
as man aid wife. They Immediately re-
tired and as nothing was seen of them this
morning the door of the room WAS broken
in. On the bed lay the woman covered
with blood. She had been dead for hours.
Her abdomen had been ripped open with Il
dull, broken table knife that lay in blood.
The viscera had been cut and from the ap-
pearances part was missing. The man had
escaped. 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.
The coroner made hasty examination of
the body and found that the woman had
been dead a number of hours. He removed
the clothes from herface and neck and re-
vealed ghastly visage. The tongue was
out of the mouth and swollen, eyes bulged
from their sockets and the nose was fiat
tened to the face and about the neck
was circle of CONCEALED blood. The
appearance of the face convinced the coro-
ner that the woman first had been straneled
and then cut. On turning over the body it
was found that the murderer had left his
mark. The broken end of a knife had been
used to make large cross on the base of
the spine. Proprietor Jennings and the az
sistant housekeeper, Mary Muniton, told
the police all they knew about the case
The housekeeper said the murdered wom-
ans companion WAS decidedly German in
appearance, but she could not tell from his
appearance how long he had been in this
country. She said he ressmbled sea-far-
ing man. Mary said the woman was we'll
known character around the neighborhood,
but no one seems to know her or where she
lived. The police are securing the city and
vessels around the docks for the murderer
The woman could not have been much
under go years of age. Her hair was almost
white and her features stamped with marks
of drunkenness and the gutter She was
typical specimen of a woman of the slums
The man, according to the clerk of the
establishment, was apparently not over 32
years of age. In build he was slight and of
medium height, with light complexion,
small blonde mustache and blonde hair
he did not utter word in the hearing of
any of the people about the hotel and the
murder must have been q nOiseless one. az
the 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 diving
ahv. Stretehed ont on bed, naked from
the waist down, lying on her right side,
with both arms twisted and bent under her.
her head enveloped in fold after after fold
of cloth, the old woman lay stark dead on
mattress soaked with blood. She had
been completely disemboweled and the ter
rible result of tie operation was drawn out
and scattered over the entire lower part of
the bed. Whether any of the parts are
missing. ns was the case with
the London murders. has not vet
been fully ascertnined. when the coverings
we're removed from the face, the expression
was one of agony. The old woman evil
IDENTIFY struggled hard before being stran-
eled. A doctor who saw the body Says
Whether by chance or Skill the cut was
made so as to effect the object aimed at by
London Jack the Ripper, namely, removal
of the uterus"
Inspectors Byrnes and Williams were
busy until late hour tonight questioning
large number of people. Probably more
detectives are working on this case than
any ever before known in New York The
woman was identified tonight as one Car
rie Brown. aged 60. A man kno WIN as
"Frenchy," who WAS an acquaintance of
the dead woman, has been arrested.