The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-30
HORRIBLY BUTCHERED.
A Terrible Murder In New York CaAsel
the Belief That Jack the Ripper" hsa
Located in That City.

A Terrible Murder In New York CaNses
the Belief That Jack the Ripper" HISS
Located in That city.
NEW York. April 25.-A horrible
crime committed in a thickly populated
section Of lower New York at some
time between II o'clock Thursday
night and 10 o'clock Friday morning
justifies suspicion that the fiend
known as Jack the Ripper" OF White
chapel notoricty in London has located
in this city. or that an equally blood
thirsty wretch is plying his trade OF
murder in the same fashion. Between
the hours named an unknown woman
about 55 years of age was disembow-
eled at the Fourth Ward hotel. resort
at No. IA Catherine slip, and her as
sassin has disappeared mysteriously.
About 1890 o'clock Thursday night .
tall, slender man about 30 years OF age,
dressed in brown cutaway coat and
light trousers, met an old woman who
is known by the name Of .'Shakes-
peare" around the Fourth ward, and
with her entered the hotel and asked for
a room for the night. The man regis
tered under the name of {. Nicoli, and
he and the woman were shown to a
room on the top floor. Friday morning
the bartender went to the room and
raped on the door There was no re-
sponse and he forced the door. The
dead body of the old woman was
found lying on the bed. 1t was shock
ingly cut and mutilated. The body was
completely naked. 4 deep cash ex-
tended from the lower part of the alb
domen upward to the breast. which
disemboweled it completely. The en-
trails had apparently been torn from
the body and We're scattered over the
bed. There We're also two deep cuts
crossing each other on the back in the
form Of an exact cross.
1t is believed the murderer strangled
his victim first and then proceeded to
his horrible butchery. There was nc
trace of the man, and no one had seen
him leave the hotel. The detectives
placed under arrest bartender. q
| woman named Mary leeler and
the chambermaid, Mary Mineter
The coroner has the murderer.
knife, which is common table
knife with broken blade about two
inches in length and half an inch
wide. The resemblance between this
murder and those credited to Jack the
Ripper il London is strong enough
to warrant the presumption tina
the object aimed at was the same
although the procedure was slightly
| different
Inspector Williams is assisting In
spector Byrnes in questioning the peo
pie continually being brought in by tn,
largest force of central Office detective.
and policemen ever put to work on :
single case in New York. One of tn,
women arrested. Mrs. Harrington
who keeps a lodging house. gave infor
nation whereby the police arrested ;
man known IN his haunts as .'Frenchy,
and who, according to Mrs. Har
rington, was an acquaintance Of tn,
dead woman, whose name She said wa
Carrie Brown. 80 years old. The won
an formerly lived out at service. bn
was SO much given to riotous livin,
that she acquired an unenviable repu
tation and thus lost her chances O
gaining an honest living. The polio,
would give no information concernin,
the man, nor would they give his righ
name.