Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-04-26
WHO Is THE FIEND 2
Jack the Ripper Commences His
Work in New York
City.
A Woman Disemboweled Like
the Whitechapel
Victims.
The Murderer seen.

NEW YORK, April 24.-Now let the
police Of New York prove th cir bo. -
ted superiority oyer the police Of Lon
don. Jack the Ripper is here. He
has done his unspeakable work. His
victim, mangled - he mangled her
predecessor Ia the grim list In London,
lies ss he left her in the lodging house,
corner Water and Catherine streets,
where the deed was done. Further
than that. the weapon used has been
found and is in the hands Of the
police. But, more than all, Jack the
Ripper himself was eeen before he did
bis bloody work. The girl who saw
him Il able TO give q close and Gear
description Of him, and, II brought
face 10 face with him, can identify
positively. The story Of the crime Is
horrible In its simplicity and In its
familiarity. Under different sur
roundings and with notifications in.
cident TO those su: rOundings, il is an
exact repetition Of the horrible atroci-
ties Of %hitecbapel. The woman was
fully go and the man could not have
been over 81 80. The man gave his
name as G. NicoIai TO the clerk Of the
lodging house where they went at le:45
last night. AT 10 O'Clock this morning
q boy whose duty it was to rouse the
tardy dodgers pushed open the door OF
No. Al and there beheld sceneOf horror
as he will not forget until his dying
day. Stretched out on the bed, naked
from waist down, lying on her right
side, with b ,th arms twisted and bent
rfnder her her head envelOped in fold
after fold Of cloth, the old woman lay
stark dead cn the mattress soaked with
her blood. She had been completely
dis embOwtltd and the terrible result
Of the operation drawn out and scat
tered over the entire lover part Of the
bed. The boy. afrer one glance st This
appalling spectacle flew away and gave
the alarm. Police O'Conner and two
roundsmen made a careful search OF
the room, ard on the floor close by
the bed, with its haft and blade still
wet with blood, lay the knife with
which the deed was done. The mur-
der must have been well nigh noiseless.
The adjoining room being only separ-
ated by thln board partition, ii
would be almost possible to hear a
whisper through IL. Yet the man
who slept there heard not a sound.
The assassin did his work stole
quietly away and Jack the Ripper's
first bloody mark had been made In
New York. Inspector Williams is to-
night assisting Inspector Byrnes in
questioning the people continually
being brought in tonight by the larg-
est force Of central office detective and
and policemen ever at work on a sim
gle case in New York. One woman
arrested, Mrs. Harrington, who keeps
lodging house. gave information
whereby the police arrested a man
known In his haunts as "Frenchy"
and who according to Mrs. Harring-
ton wss acquainted with the dead
woman whose name she said was
Carrie Brown, so years old. The
woman formerly lived OUt at service,
but was 30 much given to riotoUs liv-
ing that she acquired unenviable rep
utation and thus lost her chances of
gaming an honest livelihood. The
police would not give any information
concerning the man Eor would they
give his right name.