The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
THEY KNOW TIE MURDERER.
The New York Police Claim to Know Who
Jack the Ripper Is.

Ihe new YORK Police Claim to Know Who
Jack the Ripper IL.
New YORK, April 24.-Now let the po-
lice of New York prove their boasted Sill
periority over the police of London.
Jack the Ripper is here. He has done
his unspeakable work. His victim, man.
gled as he mangled her predecessors in
the grim list in London, lies as he left
her in the lodging house, corner Water
and Catherine streets, where the deed
was DONE Further than that, the weap-
on used has been found and is in the
hands of the police. But, more than all,
Jack the Ripper himself was seen before
he did his bloody work. The girl who
saw him is able to give close and clear
description of Linn, and, if brought face
to face with him, can identify positively.
The story of the crime is horrible in it's
simplicity and in it's familiarity. Under
different surroundings and with modifi-
cations incident to those surroundings, it
is an exact repetition of the horrible
atrocities of Whitechapel. The woman
was fully go and the man could not have
been over 81 or 32. The man gave his
name as O. Nicolai to the clerk of the
lodging house where they went
at lO:45 last night. At 10 o'clock this
morning boy whose duty it was to
rouse the tardy dodgers pushed open
the door of No. 81, and there beheld
such scene of horror as he will not for
get until his dying day. Stretched out
on the bed, naked from waist down, ly-
ing 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 the mat
traes soaked with her blood. She had
been completely disembowled and the
terrible result of the operation drawn out
and scattered over the entire
lower part of the bed. The boy,
after one glance at this
appalling spectacle, flew away and gave
the alarm. Police Captain O'Connor and
two roundsmen made careful search of
the room, and 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 murder must have been
well-nigh noiseless. The adjoining room
being only separated by thin board
partition, it would be almost possible 70
hear whisper through it Yet the man
who slept there heard not sound. The
assassin did his work, stole quietly away
and Jack the Ripper's first bloody
mark has been made in New York. In
spector Williams is tonight assisting In
opoaf0r Rurpoc in Tho ,,oo,,1,
continually being brought in tonight by
ives and policemen ever at work on a
single case in New York. One woman
arrested, Mrs. Harrington, who keeps a
by the police arrested a man
known in his haunts as "Frenchy" and
who according to Mrs. Harrington as
acquainted with the dead woman whose
name she said WIS Carrie Brown, 60
years old. The woman formerly lived
out at service, but was:so muchlgiven to
riotous living that she acquired unen-
viable reputation and thus lost her
chances of gaining an honest livelihood.
The police would give no informa ion
concerning the man nor would they give
his right name.
New York, April 25.-Deputy Coroner
Jenkins concluded the autopsy on the
remains of the woman murdered by
"Jack the Ripper" this afternoon. The
only fact of importance disclosed was
that the mutilations we're evidently made
while the woman still lived, and it was
apparent that the struggles of the poor
wretch prevented the butcher from fully
completing what he originally intended
the removal of certain organs, which
had been torn, but not removed, as in the
case of the Whitechapel murders. 1t was
not possible, the coroner said, to deter
mine whether death resulted from strang-
ulation or from other wounds inflicted.
Inspector Byrnes tonight made a state
ment to the reporters to the effect
that while the police have
not arrested the murderer,
yet they know who he is and hope to
have him in custody before long. The
murderer, the Inspector says, is cousin
of "Frenchy" or Francis Analgerion, who
was arrested last night. This mans
name is not known, but his face is not
unfamiliar to the police. It is known
that Frenchy spent Wednesday night
with the murdered woman and staid at
the hotel on the night that his cousin
perpetrated the horrible deed. 1t is not
known whether he knew of what was 60
ing on or not; he was alone.
The boiler of locomotive exploded
at Johnston's station, Ohio, Thursday,
killing the fireman, John Foley, and
scalding the engineer and brakeman.