Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-18
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THE SLASHBR CAPTURED
New York'S Notorious MUIR
derer Arrested.
IDENTIFIED BY One OF HIS VICTIMS.
Plans for the Coming Week
= in Congress.
CHILps ATTITUDE TOWARD REFUGEES
How the Move is Viewed
at Washington.
CHILPs ATTITUDE TOWARD REFUGEES
Observation-Disclosures.

| Capture of a Notorious Criminal In
| New York-Hoyv He Was Shadouei
| by a Detective-Identified by One o.
His Many Victims-His Confession,
and Denials.
New YORK, Jan. 1.-THE mysterious
parsonage known to the police as "Jack
the-Slasher" was arrested at 2:30 thii
| morning. The police have been agitate6
since December 20 over q series of peculiar
| assaults, five having occurred up to date
and at least one resulting fatally. The
| victims have without exception been unde,
the influence of liquor, walking or stagger.
ing along tho street, when someone has
noiselessly approached from behind and
slashed their throsts with a razor, making
the supposed victims of the slasher was
Lawyer James Carson of Baltimore, whose
dead body was found on Christie street
Friday night with the throat cut. Early
this morning Detective Masterson of the
Oak street precinct, in which most of the
assaults have been committed, was stand
ing at New Bowery and Roosevelt street
when a roughly dressed man approached
close to him and stared into his face. The
action aroused the officers suspicious, and
he determined to shadow tbs man. The
stranger led the officer trip up and
down the streets of the east side until
finally drunken man came along. The
stranger accosted the inebriate and the
two walked together a short distance
Then tho stranger fell behind. The
drunken manshad proceeded twenty feet in
advance, when the stranger suddenly
flashed some glittering object from his
pocket and sprang like tiger upon the
other. The latter fell and in an instant
the detective was at his side. The
stranger fled with the officer in hot pur-
suit Two patrolmen joined in the chase
and the fugitive was quickly overhauled
and taken to the Oak street station. A
blood-stained razor was found in the peck
ct of the coat. The victim, whose throat
was seriously, though not fatally slashed,
was also taken to the station. He said he
was William Miller of No. 1926 Cherry
street. He had been drinking heavily and
was going home when accosted by his as
sailant. The latter, a well-formed, mid
die aged man of medium height, with dark
blue restless eyes, gave his name as Hen
ry G. Dowd of No. 81 New
Chambers street. He denied having
assaulted the man, although he
told the officer when arrested that he acted
in self defence. He subsequently denied
having told the officers this. A force of
detectives was sent out to investigate
several clues and enough was learned to
prove conclusively that Dowd and "Jack-
the-Slasher were one and the aame 1t is
also limited it will be shown that he is
identical with "Jack-the-Ripper, and that
he murdered the old prostitute, Annie
Brown, known as Shakespeare" for the
killing of whom the poor Algerian
''Frenchy" is serving a life sentence.
bowd was born in Liverpool As years ago.
He came to this country while an infant
His father was one of the Central Park en-
gineers. Samuel N. Hoyt, of Brooklyn, NY.
is his uncle. Dowd has been sdjudged insane
and was at one time an inmate of the Flat
bush asylum. He has long seemed to have
a msn;a for slashing people and served two
of five years. sentence for cutting man,
but was pardoned through the influence
of wealthy relatives, upon whose bounty
he has since subsisted. He has brother,
James J. Dowd, who is now in custody as
a religious crank, and another brother,
William D. Dowd, who is . fancy goods
merchant in Boston. To the latter, as
well as to the Hoyts, Dowd has been a
source of annoyance for long time. They
have paid his board at 8 lodging house
ueTS ne HAL WAS tAhou DoIOIo mllloT
to-day at he hospital, but Miller said he
was go drunk at the time of the assault
that he could not identify Dowd.
Another of the slasher's victims is John
Clarke of Elizabeth, N. j. He also is in
hospital, and to-day Dowd was taken to
Clarke's ward. Clarke at once said:
"There's the man who tried to murder
me-" and became greatly excited. Clarke's
Identification is regarded as complete.
Dowd admitted to-day to Inspector Byrnes
that he had cut the Threats of dozen diff
ferent people. and in the next breath he
denied that he had ever been guilty of any
such action. He continued in his admis-
sion, however, that he knew the names of
the people who had been cut, aud he had a
record of every case. Subsequently, he told
the inspector that when he was boy
big German entered his home in Brooklyn
and forcibly assaulted his mother before
his eyes. He vowed vengeance on all
Dutchmen and, as soon as he attained to
manhood, he executed the threat upon
everyone whose face resemblsd that of his
mothers asssilant
The woman at whose house Dowd
boarded said he was a dangerous man.
He has frequently come in collision with
the law and was feared by those who
knew him. A favorite position of his was
10 slt III LIB "luuo" anu u1scnaISe
calibre revolver into the crowded thorough
fare. He was finally persuaded to desist
from this peculiar sport. Dowd's crank
brother called on him to-day and to the
officer he said: "My brother has been in
an asylum and he is a damned fool-nt-
terly damned. He will not pray for him
self, and when I get on my knees he
curses-it isn't right" The crank was then
locked up. Dowd was taken before a
magistrate to-day and formally remanded
to the custody of the officers.
Another report of the arrest says Dowd
admitted that he murdered John Carson