The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-04-23
JACh 1HE RfPPER AGAIN..
An Unforinnfts womsn Found Mutilsted
and Byinr IN Ncw York.

and DylnC IN rev
NEW YORK, April IA murder was
brought to light In Bellevue hUspital TINS
afternoon. which Is suggestive In some
Of its details Of the Whitechapel crimes
in London that made Jack the Ripper
notorious The victim is woman OF the
lowest class. Her name was Aiice Walsh,
and she was we'll known IN the resorts IN
the nelghborhood Of Blocker and Thomp-
son streets. When the autopsy was per-
formed upon her body II was discovered
that certain mutilatons bad been made
which distinguished the Nnitechapei muir
ders. although not OF so serious a charac-
ter. In TO a late hour the murderer had
not been arrested but one man, who Is
thought to have had some knowledge OF
the matter was held on suspicion.
The circumstances of the killing of
Alice Walsh are peculiar in almost every
aspect About O'Clock this morning
woman was found In the hallway OF lB
Thompson street half unconscious and
bleeding. Attention Of the police was
called to her shortly after they went on
post at o'clock The first man to find
her was Nincenzo Ster. an Italian boot
black. who lives in the same tenement
lie found her as he was passing down.
stairs on his way 10 work. Al that time
she was leaning on the railing OF the
stairs in a half-dazed state. Ster thought
she was drunk and informed the patrol
man, who repaired to the spot by the
time he had arrived the woman had
fallen upon the floor Near her feet was
a large pool OF blood. The woman was
conveyed TO 81. Vncents Hospital. and
inquiries instituted a the tenement No
one who was there knew the name Of
the woman. but the night clerk OF
restaurant readily identified her as Alice
Walsh.
At the hospital the case was looked
upon as in no way serious, and the police
reported the case as that of a homeless
woman. who was suffering from alcohol
ism and sickness. Alcoholic cases are
not usually treated I'm st. Nincents Hos
pital 50 she was transferred 10 Belle
yue.
Every effort of the physicians to stop
the flow OF blood proved futile. and the
patient expired at lil5 o'clock. having
been in the institution less than four
hours. During that period she showed
no signs Of returning consciousness. and
died without indicating In any way how
she met with the circumstances which
resulted IN her lsath. In the course OF
the afternoon Or. Philip o. Hanlon, coro-
ner's physician made a post-mortem ex-
animation of the body. and discovered the
real cause OF death. He found that the
woman was bruised and black and blue
In almost every part Of her body.
lie found also that she had been bru-
tally mutilated with a knife or dagger,
| and that the wounds thus resulting had
started the hemorrhagc, which had terrnl-
mated fatally. The wounds were, for the
| most part, internal and not superficial
at least those that had been made by the
| knife or dagger.
After much searching abtut the neigh
| bOrhOod. the police found that the woman.
In company with a tall broad-shouldered
| man, who looked like an Italian, a woman
| known as "GimDy" Amanda, a girl called
/ "Teenie' ana another II an had scent A
! portion Of the early morning hours In the
saloon Of +. y. Garland at los West
| Houston street. While In there she be-
| came greatly intoxicated. and she and
| her tall companion Iuarrried. They left
| there, so far as could be ascertained, at
/ about four O'Clock 4. NJ. What happened
| 10 her. or where she went during the in
| tervcning ;wo hours. cannot. at present,
be told. The night clerk IN the York
town Hotel, Mewley. who first identified
! the woman, said that she was not there
| and no one saw her coming out Of the
place that has come forward to disclose
the fact II seems impossible that she
was thus INITIATED in the hallway where
| she was discovered by the Italian boot
| black, and The police assert that she did
not come by her injuries in any room In
| the tenement above.
IL is surm'sod IN AZ the man who killed
her is the Italian stranger in whose com
| pany she was In Garlands saloon. \ wo-
man in Bellevue Hospital who had met
her while serving a term on the Island
said that she had been living with man
named Terence Collins who. a short
time ago. was sent 20 the Elmira Refor-
| matOry.
After her lover had been sent away
Alice took up with an Italian, or Span
lard. so the woman said.
Late last night a mysterious woman
was brought into police headquarters by
the rear door. IL was said that the pris
oner had some connection with the case
of the murdered Alice Walsh. but the
detectives denied that they had any sucf
person locked up.
Philip Mewley. the night clerk, is beinl
held until further investigation is made.