The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-26
JACK THE RIPPER.
Is He Identical with Frenchy No.
l, of New York,
NOW ON TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE
One oftho Most Interesting Trials on
Record Bcgins--.His Method of Kill
ing Precisely tho Same as that OF
the whitechapel Fiend --- Distin-
guished People in Court.

SutSneu FcopIe III OOuFC'
NEW YoRK, June 25.-Ameer Bon Ali
is on trial for his life before Recorder
smyth in Part II. of the Court OF Cen
eral Sessions. Known to the police as
George Frank and to his companions as
Frank sherlick or. Frenchy No. /, the
prisoners real name is Ameer Ben Ali.
He is dark-skinned, hollow-eyed Al
gerian Arab, ignorant of the English
language, and Of a low order Of human
ity-even for an Arab.
An immense throng Of people gath
cred at the brown-stone court house
and clamorcd for admittance to the
scene of Frenchy's trial, but half dozen
sturdy officers stayed them, and when
the Recorder took his seat on the bench
there was only an ordinary court audi
cnce.
Among those in court was the Wis.
count d'Absac, French consul-general
for New York, q handsome man with "
patriarchal gray beard. Chief lnspec;,
tor Bvrnes, imperturbably serene, and
Captain and Acting Chief Of Detectives
Mclaughlin sat in retired corner,
watching the proceedings.
DR.. Paul Gibier, the French physician
and expert in hydrophobia, and Dr.
Justin Herold, formerly Deputy Cor.
oner, sat with Lawyers Friend and
Lew, who will look after the rights of
the defendant in the selection OF jury.
E. Sultan, the Frenchman who runs
the cigar stand ut the hotel Marlbor-
ough, and Constant ]. Sperco, q Ma
hometan, we're also present to act as IN
terpreters between the people and the
Algerian.
The prosecution will be directed by
Assistant District Attorneys Francis l..
Wellmau and Charles Simms, and the
trial bids fair to be one OF the most
famous in the history OF criminal Juris-
prudence, as the crime was one OF the
most atrocious that ever startled peace
full New York.
TIE RIPPER MURDERS.
In October, 1887, London was startled
by the finding of the body, yet warm,
Of a forlorn wretch, butchered in cold
blood. in the crowded Whitcchapel
district, and mutilated in manner
that denoted that the crime
was the work OF vindictive
wretch, or mailman who had been
wronged by some woman of this class.
For three years, again and again; n
similar murder and mutilation was dis
covered, the victim each time being q
dissolute woman. Thirteen women had
yielded up their lives in this way, and
the murders were credited to the same
hand. /,
The terrified women OF Whitechapel
called him Jack the Ripper, and in
spite OF the strenuous efforts OF Scot
land Yard the Ripper was never appre-
hended.
It was exactly two months ago Tues
day-Thursday, April .2S-that Carrie
BroTa, q sexogenarian hag OF the low
est class of dissolute women, retired to
room 81, on the top floor of the vile re-
sort known as the East River Hotel,
Water and Catherine streets, with an
unknown young man.
At9 o'clock next morning Eddie Fttz-
gerald, clerk and bartender in tho East
River Hotel, going his rounds and col,
lecting the keys OF vacated rooms, found
room 81 locked. and on bursting in the
door, discovered that "old Shakespeare"
or Carrie Brown, as she was called. by
her dissolute acquaintance, had been
murdered and mutilated in o manner
exactly like the victims Of London's
terror, Jack the Ripper.
LIKE TIE wHITEcnAPEI GRIMES.
She had been strangled to meath; her
abdomen had been ripped open, and q
portion of the viscera removed. There
was a cross cut on the back Of the
nearly naked old hag, and a short
bladed, sharp.pointed case knife stuck
in the body.
The whole town was aroused, and the
whole detective force, under Chief
Byrnes himself, devoted Its entire en-:
ergy, skill and power to the wor < OF
| hunting down the murderer.
Ameer Ben Ali slept that night in a
room on the Same floor as room 81, and,
though he had been looked upon as o
harmless fellow, was one OF the dozen
men arrested during that Fridhy. Thir-
teen men and women Of this same low
class were arrested and sent to the
House Of Detention of Witnesses, and
the whole work OF the police was
shrouded in dense mystery.
The whole world was upon Chief
Byrnes, for he had been quoted as say
| ing contemptuously that Jack the
Ripper operating in New York would
be caught within twenty-four hours.
The whole world is straining its eyes
and ears to-day, eager to learn whether
the chief has proven the accuracy of
that boast. Frenchy No. ] was thin,
woebegonc, haggard and half nourished
lout when arrested. Two months In the
Tombs has improved him.
Those who craned their necks to get q
glimpse Of him when Court Clerk Pen
Ilcv called "George Frank, charged with
1 murder, to the bari" saw shambling,
slouching fellow, with stooping, narrow
shoulders, from which hung in loose
folds faded overcoat that reached to
his ankles.
Frenchy has very high cheek bones
and small ierret-like eyes, close to-
gether over a prominent nose that
curves gracefully down over very
small and tangled black mustache,
A full beard, crinklod and black
grown since he was arrested, hides .
weak chin, square jaws and o WICKED
mouth.