Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-04-25
THE RIPPER'S WORK
Horrible Butchery of an Out.
cast Woman in New York.
JUST LIKE LoNDoN's F1END.
The Victim strangled to Death and Then
Hacked With a Knife.

The Discovery Made by the Attendant of
the Low Resort Where the Murder Oc-
curred-Inspector Byrnes and Force of
Detectives at work-They Think They
Have the Murderer.
New YORK, April ga horrible crime,
committed in thickly populated section
of lower New York some time between
II O'Clock at night and 4 o'clock in the
morning, justifies a suspicion that the
fiend known as "Jack the Ripper" of
Whitechapel notoriety in London, has To-
Gated in this city, or that an equally
bloodthirsty wretch is plying his trade of
murder in the same fashion.
At 10:45 D. m. a woman over 90 years
of age, dissolute character, accompanied
by a man entered the Fourth Ward Hotel,
a low resort at No. IA Catherine slip, and
registered as "Knicloi and wife" They
took a room on an upper floor and the
woman was not seen again alive.
Discovering the Horrible Crime.
In the morning Edward Fitzgerald, a
clerk in the house, hearing no noise,
raped on the door Of the room occupied
by the couple. There was no answer
and he finally broke in the door. A hor-
rible sight met his gaze.
On the floor lay the woman in a big
pool of blood. She had been dead for
hours.
Her abdomen had been fairly ripped
open with dull, broken table knife,
that lay in the pool of blood. The Wis
cera had been cut, and from appearance
a part was missing.
With cunning still analogous to that
of the Whitechapel murderer this blood
thirsty wretch also made his escape and
left no trace behind.
The woman's head was bandaged. A
cloth had been tied about her neck and
face, but whether for any foul purpose
or to hide any other traces of murder the
attendant did not wait to see. He gave
the alarm at the Office and messenger
was hastily despatched to the police sta
ton.
She Was Strangled First.
Coroner Schultz quickly arrived at the
hotel and made hasty examination.
When the face of the woman was ex-
posed to the light it was hideous sight.
The tongue was out of the mouth and
swollen, the eyes bulged from their
sockets, the nose was flattened to the
face, and about the neck was a circle of
CONCEALED blood. The appearance of the
face convinced the coroner that the
woman had first been strangled and then
cut. Turning over the body it was found
that the murderer had left his mark. The
broken end of the knife had been used to
make a large cross on the back of the
spine.
A Force of Detectives at Work.
The police are straining every nerve to
apprehend the murderer. Four Central
Office detectives have been detailed to aid
the ward detectives in the matter and a
search is being made of all the downtown
lodging houses to ascertain whether any
stranger had taken a room subsequent to
the preparation of the awful butchery.
Similar to London's whitechapel.
The murdered woman has been posi-
lively identified as an all night ''roun-
der' of many years standing in the dis
trict where the crime was committed,
which is similar in many respects to the
Whitechapel district of London. Though
the woman's real name could not be as
certained, it was learned that she was
known as shakespeare" among her as
sociates. This soubriquet was applied to
her because of the fluent way in which
she repeated the lines of the great bard
| She was q handsome woman, with strik-
| ing features of a Roman cast, and form
of remarkable symmetry for woman of
| her age. There are even traces of refine
menU visible beneath the marks left by a
life of dissipation.
blouse of All Drunks."
The place in which the womans life
was ended is known to the residents in
that locality as the blouse of all
DRINKS" 1t has bad reputation and is
perhaps one of the worst of its class in
the city. The police say that numerous
crimes have been committed within it's
portals, and only recently the barten-
der has been arrested for cutting man
down with sabre.
Several Arrests Made.
Two detectives arrested young French
man who is called ''Frenchy." 1T is
claimed that "Frenchy" was seen with
the murdered woman on Thursday night
This he strenuously denies, but Inspector
Byrnes feels confident he has got the
right man. Altogether the police have
arrested four men and seven women who
are supposed to be able to throw light
| upon the affair.
Later investigations of the police have
disclosed much of the woman's identity
and history. Her name was Carrie
| Brown,