The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-04-22
4 RIPPER IN NEW YORK.
The Atrooious Murder of a Woman
of the Lowest Glass. ,-
wHITEoHAPEL GRIMES RECALLED

Found Bleeding In Hallway and Removed
to a Hospital, Where the Physicians Are
Unable to Stop the Flow of Blood-Her
Murderer Not Yet Captured.
NEW York, April GA murder was
brought to light in Bellevue hospital yes
terday 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 Alice
Walsh, and she was we'll known in the re-
sorts In the neighborhood of Blocker and
Thompson streets. When the autopsy was
performed on her body it was discovered
that certain mutilations had been made
which distinguished the Whitechapel
murders, although not of SO serious char
acter. Up 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 re-
spect Early yesterday morning woman
was found in the hallway Of 143 Thomp-
son street, half unconscious and bleeding
The attention of tho patrolman was called
to her shortly after be went on post. The
first man to find her was Vincenzo Ster,
an Italian bootblack who lives in the same
tenement He found her as he was pass
ing down stairs on his way to work. AT
that time she was leaning on the railing
of the stairs in half dazed state. Ster
thought she was drunk, and informed the
patrolman, who repaired to the spot BY
the time he arrived the woman had fallen
to the floor. Near her feet was large
pool of blood. The woman was conveyed
to st. Fincent's hospital and inquiries in.
stituted at the tenement. No one SSho was
there knew the name of the woisan, 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 re-
ported the case as that of o homeless
woman who was suffering from alcohol
ism and sickness. Alcoholic cases are not
usually treated in st. Vincents hospital,
and she was transferred to Bellevue
Every effort Of the physicians to stop the
flow of blood proved futile, and the patient
expired at 1l:l5, having been in the insti-
tuition 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 circum-
stances that resulted in her death.
IN the course OF tine afternoon Dr Philip
o. Hanlon, coroner's physician, made a
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 her
body. He found also that she had been
brutally mutilated with a knife or dagger,
and that the wounds thus resulting had
started the hemorrhage which had termi-
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
1t seems impossible that she was thus
mutilated in the hallway where she was
discovered by the Italian bootblack, and
the police assert that she did not come to
her injuries in any room in the tenement
above. 1t is surmised that the man who
killed here is an italian stranger In whose
company she was seen In Garland's saloon
on West Houston street.
Philip Mewley, the night clerk who
identified the woman, is being held until
further investigation is made.