The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-18

Wos0, was CdplQECQ dL I'LL Gritty IOuF
this morning red-handed. He inyeigled
his victim, drunken man, to an un-
frequented street and then catching the
man around the neck with one hand,
with the other he drew keen razor
across his throat. He then skunk away,
but an officer, who had been watching
him for some time and who had been
unable to come up in time to save the
drunken man from injury, gave pursuit,
and with the aid of other officers soon
captured .'the slasher." Inspector
Byrnes has no doubt that he has the
right man, at whose door also is laid the
death of John Carson, the Baltimore ex-
lawyer, and the dangerous wounding of
five other men. The prisoners name is
Henry q. Dowd. He is well connected,
so far as his family is concerned, but his
habits have long made him a social out
cast, and for two years at least, he has
had no other home than the cheap lodg-
lighthouses on the Bowery. He is about
43 years old, and is believed to be insane.
Dowd's seventh victim is a man named
William Miller, 40 years old, of 32s West
Third street, who was walking along
James street in drunken condition.
His throat was badly cut, and he was
taken to the hospital. Dowd was ar
raigned this morning in q police court,
and was from there remanded to the
care OF Inspector Byrnes.
The following is list of the victims
of the man who has been dubbed by the
police as Jack the Slasher'':
John Hefin, of No. 14S East Eighteenth
street, cut by some person unknown, the
night of December 29th last (this was
the first case) = Louis Lawson, of No. 5
Albany street, throat cut January s;
John Clark, of Elizabeth, N. j., throat
cut January g.; George Williams, OF
Brooklyn, throat cut and slashed Janu-
ary II; Edward Christianson, Il Swede,
throat slashed January II; John Carson,
throat cut from ear to ear, found dead
January 10.
After the preliminary examination of
the prisoner he was taken to the Bellvue
hospital where Clark, the man who was
cut January was being treated for the
injury inflicted by the slasher. Clark
positively identified Dowd as the man
who assaulted him. When Dowd was
taken back to police headquarters he
made a confession of his crimes, or some
of them. He said the impulse to kill
was uncomfortable. He said he wanted
to kill all the Dutchmen because a Ger
man had once ravished his mother at
her home in Brooklyn. 4Why did you
kill Carson, he wasn't German?" the
inspector asked. 81 could not help it,
was the reply. Then seeing his error,
he quickly corrected himself saying he
did not kill Carson. Dowd's room was
searched and blood-stained clothing
found. His shirt sleeves were also full
of blood stains.
Henry G.. Dowd, ''the slasher," is an
Englishman by birth, and is one of the
children of Patrick M. Dowd, the civil
engineer, who was engaged in laying out
| Central Park. He is well connected on
his mothers side, his mothers sister
! having married Samuel N. Hoyt, son
of the late Jesse Hoyt, the famous mil
lionaire, whose will was vigorously con-
tested by his daughter, Mary Irene
Hoyt. All who know the prisoner say
they have always considered him insane
and it is said that Dowd was once con-
fined in an asylum, from which he es-
capped.