Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29

New YORK, April 24.-Jack the Rip
per has come to New York at last His
handiwork is so plain in murder COM
mitted this morning in the East River
Hotel, low resort on the southwest cor
ner of Catherine Slip and Water Street,
that there seems to be no room for
doubt. The police admit it. Capt.
Richard O'Connor, who is in charge of
the Oak Street station and is one of In
spector Byrnes' oldest and sharpest de-
tectives, said at noon: cts Jacks
work to dot"
Who he is, what he is, where he came
from, and why he murdered the woman
who Is the victim, no one knows as yet.
The wOman's name Is not even known.
She is known about the neighborhood
as one of the lot of half drunken Great
ures who hang about the bad resorts
by the water side.
1t was 10:45 o'clock last night that the
man came into the hotel and registered
as Knicloi and wife. He and the woman
took room on an upper floor and went
to it at once. Nothing was seen of either
unusual noise was heard This morning
the attendant raped on the door of the
room occupied 10y the couple. No an
swer came. He raped again, with no
better result, and finally broke in the
door.
An awful sight met his gaze. On the
bed lay the woman in pool of blood.
She had been dead for hours. Her alb
domen had been fairly ripped open with
dull, broken table knife that lay in
the blood. The vlcsera had been cut
and from appearances a part was miss
ing. The man had escaped. A very
imperfect desert ption of him was given
to the police, and they went to work on
1t with the utmost secrecy and speed.
Little leaked out except that the MUIR
derer was man about 80 years old and
shabbily dressed.
The body of the woman had not been
touched when the coroner arrived. He
made hasty examination and found
that she had been dead a number of
hours. He removed the clothes from her
face and neck and revealed a CHASTITY
visage. The tongue was out of the
mouth and swollen, the eyes bulged
from their sockets, the nose was flat
tened to the face, and about
the neck was circle Of con-
gealed blood. The appearance of
the face convinced the coroner
that the woman had first been strangled,
and then cut. On 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 large cross on
the base of the spine.
Everything about the room was in
state of disorder, although it might
have been in this condition before the
couple entered it. The rooms on the
top floor Of the lodging house
are nothing more than spaces di-
vided off by their board parti-
tons. All the adjoining rooms were
occupied last night, but their tenants
had left the hotel when the body was
discovered. If the man had been noisy
in his work, the people in the other
rooms must have certainly heard him,
but if they did they said nothing about
it to the clerk.
Proprietor Jennings and the assistant
housekeeper, Mary Munitor, went up to
the Oak Street police station and
there told Coroner Schultz and Po-
lice Capt. O'Connor all they knew
about the case The housekeeper
said that the murdered woman's COM
panion wore a white turned down collar
and dark brown cutaway coat He
was decidedly German in appearance,
but she could not tell from his appear
ance how long he had been in
this country She said he resembled
seafaring man. Mary said that the
woman was well-knoWn character
around the neighborhood, but no one
seemed 70 know where she lived. The
police are securing the city and the
vessels at the docks for the murderer.