The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-01-16
JACK The SLASHER
Latest Victim of the New
York Cut-thrOat.
CARSON MAKES THE SIXTH.
A Fear Created Akin TO That Caused
by the Whteobapel Atrocities.
CARSON MAKES THE SIXTH.

The New York " Jack " Has Fondnes,
for slashing Drunken Mems Throats -
HIS Previous Crimes The Police with
out Glue History of the Man Car
son lie Had Been Lawyer in Balti-
more Two of His Sisters the wives
of Judges.
New YoRK, Jan. 16 The finding of the
dead body of John Carson, a former Bal
timore lawyer, on Chrystie street, with
fearful slash across the throat, has
created an excitement not unlike that
created in London by the doings of the
notorious "Jack the Ripper - Carson is
supposed to be the sixth victim of the
mysterious fiend dubbed Jack the
Slasher" on the lower East Side. Resi-
dents of the Fourth and Seventh Wards
are terribly excited over the bloody deeds
of this mysterious desperate, who ap-
pears to roam about at night and seek
out drunken victims for his ready razor.
Although Carson is the first death re-
sulting from the murderous weapon of
the 'Slasher," " there have been five other
men, more or less, seriously cut about
the neck in that locality within the past
two weeks No less than fifteen detec-
tives are hunting for the murderer, who
is still at large.
Carson was man of good family.
One of his sisters is Mrs. Annie Sander
son of Paterson, n. j., wife of Judge
Sanderson, and another is Mrs. Matte
Benzinger, wife of a Judge living in
Baltimore. Carson met with business
reverses a year ago, and has since been
employed as canvasser and been travel
inc thrDuph New ENGLAND.
He made his headquarters in this city
and had been drinking heavily for the
past week. About / o'clock in the
morning Watchman Schmidt found him
on the stairs of the GermaDia Hotel
asleep. Clerk Welding was called, and
! although he recognized Carson, decided
to turn him away. Carson had paid
| $1.50 on Tuesday for weeks room rent
in advance. The clerk paid back seventy
five cents Of this amount and told the
| guest to go. Carson, who had registered
as ''John Chester" staggered down. the
| street and disappeared. His movements
| from this time until he was found dead
cannot be traced.
| The operations of "Jack the Slasher''
are briefly chronicled in the blotter of
three police stations and the Chambers
Street Hospital. The first victim was
James Hehin, "a years old, found in
Bayard street, December 30, with an in
| cised wound in the neck, which he said
was inflicted by an unknown man from
behind. He was in Bellevue Hospital
two weeks
George Wilson, or Stevens, of Brooklyn,
was the second victim. He was found
on January by policeman of the Oak
street station near Catherine Ferry with
an incised wound in the face which he
said was made by a man whom he could
not describe.
The third victim was John Clark, of
Elizabeth N. j., who received an incised
wound in the neck January while in
Mulberry street An unknown man did
the cutting Clark is still in Bellevue
Hospital.
Louis Lawson, a sailor, was the fourth
victim. He was cut in the face Jan. 3 by
an unknown man while in Peck Sip.
Victim No. o. was Edward Christensen,
a Swede, who went to the Old Slip police
station a week ago, and said that man
whom he had never seen before had
slashed him in the throat. His wound
was not serious.
The wounds inflicted upon these five
victims and the dead man Carson, were
similar, and all were evidently made by
a razor or a keeIl-baded knife. Every
cash was semi-circular and was probably
made bylthe same hand. All of the
victims we're poor, so that robbery could
scarcely have been the motive of the
'SSlasher.n Nota penny was found IL
the pockets of young Carson. He had
seventy-five cents when turned away
from the Germania House, but he might
have spent chat amount for liquor before
he met his fate. All of the living victims
of the 'Slasher'' were so drunk as to be
unable to furnish description of their
assailant.