Evening star., 1894-03-20
THE RIPPER OUTDONE
More Revolving Butchery Than Any
Committed by Him.
MURDER OF A TWELVE-YEAR OLD GIRL
Identity Discovered by Wrapping Of
the Body.
DETECTIVES ARE PUZZLED

NEW YORK, March 2O.-Headless and
without legs or arms the shriv sled trunk of
a little childs body has peen found in a
coal bin in the cellar of one of the most
dilapidated rookeries in that unsavory To-
cality known as "Hells Kitchen" 3Jth
street between 10th and i1th avenues
Wrapped around 1t were several articles Of
clothing. such as a girl in her teens wears,
and this led to the Identification of the body
as that of twelve-year-old susie Martin,
daughter of John Martin, who lives at O5G
11th avenue
That murder, more horrible and revolt
Ing in its details than any which has cou-
fronted the police of this city for many a
day, has been committed there can be no
doubt. Not only fearful mystery. but \
wanton butchery, bloodcurdling in its mode
of execution, now awaits the solution OF the
officials.
What may have preceded the Heath of this
child may only be imagined. 1t may never
be known positively, but every circum-
stance only points to the conclusion thut
the murder and the mutilatipn Of the little
body was intended to hide forever an
other crime no less revolving.
Jack the Ripper" in the widest deeds
prompted by his powerful imagination,
never descended to the slaughter Of babes.
but mere, Flgnt IN tne neart Oh tnlS Dig CITY ,
has deed been done which tranScenis in
brutality anything ever attributed to the
slayer of Whitechapel 1t was In street
of New York that the crime was un-
earthed II not committed, street Of
tumble down barns, of alleyways which
lead no one knows whittier, of low
groggeries and of crime-hardened, drunken
men and women, whose hatred for a police
man is such that one never dares TO ven-
ture there without a blue-coated compan-
ion.
OF the little victim no one who Will tell
knows anything since the day she washed
her pretty face and went out on the street to
play. But that she was kidnapped Is GER
tain: that she may have been kept alive In
one of the nsighboring rookeries, suffering
tortures worse than death. is probable. and
that she was killed only short time before
what remained of her body was found Is
believed by all who viewed II.
Mrs. Jane Farrell, the housekeeper of the
building in which the body was found, gives
a graphic account CT how the body was dis
covered.
Il was down in the cellar with Miss Mui-
hearn and Miss Fleming" she said watch
ing them get the old wood out OF the way.
They were clearing lot OF stun out OF the
wood closet before putting in cheir own
kindling wood. They had come to the last
piece, when something rolled out-a kind OF
a bundle, wrapped up in rags. One OF them,
I don't remember which, began TO unroH
the rags.
MY Cod said the other, suppose 1t
should be a child I shook like leaf.
Don't say anything so horrible, said.
1 backed up against the wall. They un-
rolled the bundle a little more, and then
we all saw there was part Of a body in 1t.
Then Mr.. Fleming came in, and told them
not to do any more until the police came.
I sent my little girl out for policeman.
whoever put that body there" she added,
knew the house and knew the neighbor-
hood. Although I am the housekeeper,
don't know half the people who go In and
out of the place. We live here in the rear
OF the second floor and l have no chance TO
see much. l know that tramps have slept
in the hallway, for my husband has driven
them out. One morning we found an old
stocking and some rags In the hallway on
the ground floor. They belonged to tramps,
I think. That was four or five months ago
''Tramps or any one else could easily get
down into the cellar. Very few of the ten
ants in the house used the cellar 10 keep
wood in, because 1t was SO damp that the
wood turned moldy."
Detectives who were put to work on the
case have as yet found nothing to throw any
light on the mysterious crime.