The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-22
RANDOM ARRESTS.
But the New York Police Seem
to Have No Real Clue
to the Ripper.

NEW YORK. April %. 1S95.-The Cen
tral Office detectives are working hard
10 discover the murderer of Alice Walsh,
who was found bleeding osdeath at four
O'Clock yesterday morning in the hall
way of the house at No. 13 Thompson
street. She died seven hours later in a.
ward at Bellevue Hospital. 1t is be-
lieved that the detectives have the solu-
ton of the mystery IN their hands. 1t
IS known hat they have several persons
in custody from whom they expect to
obtain some clues that will put them
on the track of the murderer.
Captain O'Keefe, of the Macdougal
street station. believes that the Walsh
woman was stabbed in a room at the
Yorktown Hotel. No. 154 Thompson
street. where she had made two visits
on Saturday night. 1t is understood
that blood stains were discovered IN the
room which the woman had occupied.
WHERE IS BIG LOUIS?
Mickey Walsh, the dead woman's
erstwhile lover, was found today in Gar
lands saloon at No. 1903 West Houston
street. This is the resort where Alice
Walsh and a man known as 'Gimpey"
Amanda spent the most of Saturday
evening. Mickey" was with him IN the
place for a while during the evening.
1t is Walsh's name that the dead woman
bore. He is a song and dance artist"
He said today that he had not been
living with the woman for the last two
years, and only met her by chanc in
Garland's saloon on Saturday night. He
can form no opinion as to who did the
murder or what the motive might be.
The only thing Of Importance obtained
from him was a story he told yester-
day to the police. He said that an Ital-
upon the woman for a long time. This
italian is described as a tall, well-built
man, who was known to Walsh as Big
Louis" walsh says he met Big Louis.
at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at
Houston and Thompson streets. The
Italian spoke to him, and later went
toward the Yorktown Hotel.
The police are now searching for Big
Louis" to make him account for his
movements during Saturday night and
sunday morning: The police of the Mac
dough- fhei street eas aeatlon 5 a IS agimpsg''
Amanda and the other is Philip Mewley,
the night clerk of the Yorktown Hotel.
This place is a squallid lodging house,
~frequented solely by dissolnte men and
women, and a Mt place for a crime. to
been obtained from the clerk the pokce
will not disclose. It is also understood
b a WI men are locked up. at Police
ol l11o IA aSPASAO v A1%5
something about the
DRINKING WITH A STRANGER.
According to some of the stories told
yesterday, the murdered woman was
drinking in G~arland,s place until four
o'clock yesterday morning. This state
ment was altered today. 1t is now said
tina she left the place at midnight in
company with a stranger and "Gimpey."
Then they went to the Yorktown Hotel.
At 1870 A. M. 'Gimpey" left the place,
and was followed almost Immediately.
by the stranger. A few minutes later
Alice Walsh quilted the hotel. Her
movements between that time and the
hour when she, was discovered remain
have been stabbed in the hotel and
still have been able to walk to the hall
way, where she was found There was
but little trace of blood found IN the
hallway where the woman was discov-
cred, and this would tend to prove thar
she had received her fatal wound in some
other place.
cents Hospital did not discover that
the woman had been stabbed. 1t was
not until she was at Bellevue
Hospital that this fact was disclosed,
and she was then beyond mortal help.
She died without having regained con-
seriousness.
The woman must nave been stabbed
within q few hours after midnight, and
yet it was not until late yesterday after
noon that the police gained the knowl-
edge that murder had been done.
The murdered woman was thirty years
old. Her husband, John Desmond lives
in Brooklyn, and several sisters, re-
spectacle m reside in this city.