Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-18
TAKEN RED HANDED
a New York Murderer Caught
in the Act.
SLASHER JACK IN THE LAWS GRIP.

A Seven-Timcs Cutthroat Run to Earth
just After He Had Finished One Cory
Job-i Detective Sees Him in the Very
Act of Slashing "a Throat-seyen Similar
Grimes in Less Than "A Month-An His
Victims Drunk when Attacked, but
Only One Killed.
NEW YORK, Jan. lS.-.Jack the slasher,
a mysterious individual who since Dec
% last has amused himself by cutting the
Threats of drunken men with a razor, and
has been the terror of night travellers in
the Fourth ward, was captured at an early
hour yesterday morning. red handed. He
inveigled his victim, a drunken man, to an
unfreqliented street. and then catching the
man around the neck with one hand with
the other he drew razor across his throat.
He then slunk 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 in
jury, gave pursuit and with the aid OF
other officers soon captured the slasher
Killed One and Wounded Six.
Inspector Byrnes has no dou5t that he
has the right man. at whose door also is
laid the death of John Carson, the Balti-
more eX-lawyer. and the dangerous wound.
ing of six othermcn The prisoners name
is Henry g. Dowd. He is we'll connected,
so far as his family i 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 tine cheap lodging
houses on the Bowery afford He is about
43 years old and is believed to De insane.
Dowds seventh victim l. man named
William Miller. - 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.
List of the EIi~crcant'S Victims.
Inspector Byrucs yesterday gave the fol-
lowing as the list Of victims of the man
who has been dubbed by the police Jack,
the Slasher." because OF the peculiar
methods pursued by tine criminal: John
ii. Eiiin, Ol 3lN East Eighteenth street cut
by some person unknown on the night Of
Dec. -, last NhiS was the first case: Louis
Lawson, Of > Albany street, throat cut on
Jan S: John Clark, Of Elizabeth, y j..
throat cut on Jan. o; George Williams. Of
Brooklyn, throat sla~hcd on Jan. II: Ed
ward Christensen. q Swcde throat slash
ed on Jan. y; John Carson, throat cut
from ear TO ear. found dead Jan. -
Forty Detectives ou the Trail.
All these crimes happening in the same
locality, with the victims all being cut in
the same place, led the police to believe
that one man evidently insane. was their
author, and they accordingly took extra
precautions to run down the midnight as
sasSin Two score of detectives, under the
personal supervision Of Inspector Byrnrs.
were placed about the infested district
with orders To kcrpa strict watch and to
follow any and all suspected persons
The Murderer seek, a Victim
Shortly after = o'clock yesterday morn
ing one Of these officers, Detective Master
son, was standing on the corner OF
New Chambers and Roosevelt streets. when
he saw strange man approaching him
from the opposite side of the street The
stranger had Il handkerchief tied around
his head which partially concealed his
features. The man came close to the OH
Ger, peered in the lattcr's face. evidently
to ascertain if he was drunk, and then
walked away. The officer followed M a
respectful distance. The man haunted all
the lonely thOrOughfarrS, and when "a be-
lated traveller approached scanned him
closely. He finally stood in dark door
way at the corner of Ronsrvelt and Oak
streets, while the officer concealed himself
little further down the street