St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-22
SHE BLED TO DEATH
Woman Found Dying in the
Hallway Of a Tenement in
New York.
SHE HAD BEEN MUTILATED
But by Whom Is Still a Deep
and Unsolved Mys-
terry.
SHE HAD BEEN MUTILATED
A BIG ITALIAN is SUSPECTED
Preachers Bloody Shoe Gre
ateS q Sensation in the
Frisco Tragedy.

NEW YORK, April PA mur-
der was brought to light in Bellevue
hospital this afternoon, which is
suggestive in some of its details of
the White Chapel crimes in London
that made Jack the Ripper" noto-
rious. The victim is woman of
the lowest class. Her name was
Alice Walsh, and she was we'll
known in the resorts in the neigh
borhood of Bleecker and Thompson
streets. When the autopsy was
performed upon her body it was
discovered that certain mutilations
had been made which distinguished
the White Chapel murders, though
not of so serious a character. Up
to late hour the murderer had not
been arrested. One man who is
thought to have had some knowl-
edge of the matter was held under
suspicion. The circumstances of the
killing of Alice Walsh are peculiar
in almost every aspect. About 6
o'clock this morning the woman
was found in the hallway Of 143
Thompson street half-unconscious
and bleeding. The attention of the
patrolman was called to her shortly
after he went on post at 6 O'clock.
The first man to. find her was Vim
cenzo Steer, an Italian bootblack,
who lives in the same tenement.
He found her as he was passing
down stairs on his way to work.
AT that time she was leaning on the
railing of the stairs in -dazed
condition. Steer thought she was
drunk, and informed the patrolman,.
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 At the
hospital every effort of the physi-
clans to stop the flow of blood proved
futile, and the patient expired at
11:15 o'clock, having been at the
hospital
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 death. In the
course of the afternoon, DIR. Philip
o. Hanlon, coroner's physician, made
post-mortem examination 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 the body. He found also
ho chn
lated with knife or dagger, and that
the wounds thus resulting had started
the hemorrhage which had terminated
fatally. The wounds were for the
most part internal, and not super
fetal; at least those that had been
made by the knife or dagger. After
much searching about the neighbor-
hood, the police found that the woman,
in company with a tall, broad-shoul-
dered man, who looked like an Italian,
had spent a portion of the early morn
ing hours in the saloon of E. N. Gar
land, at 10S West Houston street.
While in there she became greatly in
toxicated and she and her tall COM
panion quarreled. They left there, SC
far as could be ascertained, at 4
o'clock. What happened to her, or
where she went during the interven-
ing two hours cannot at present be
told. 1t seems impossible that she
was thus mutilated in the hallway
where she was discovered by the Ital-
ian bootblack, and the police assert
that she did not come to her injuries
in any room in the tenement above.
Z is supposed that the man who killed
ic- Ttol ctr IN,
company she was in Garland's saloon.