Evening journal., 1895-04-22
IA RIPPER Ill nEW YORK.
Woman Found Mntilated Like
the Whitechapel Victims.
TRAGIC MYSTERY IN THE sLUMs
She was Found bleeding TO Death In a
Hallway on Thompson street-Big Force
Of Detectives Looking For the Perpe-
traitor Of the AtrocIous Crime.

NEW YORK. April % "A murder was
brought 70 light In Bellevue hospital /
which is suggestive IN some Of Its details
Of the Whitechapel crimes in London that |
made Jack the Ripper notorious. The /
victim was q woman Of the lowest GLASS |
Her name was Alice Walsh, and She was
well known in the resorts in the neighbor- |
hood Of Blocker and Thompson streets.
When tho autopsy was performed upon |
her body. il was discovered that certain /
mutiations had been made which distin-
guished the Whitechapel murders, although |
not Of SO serious character.
Up to this morning the murderer had |
not been arrested, but one man who is |
thought to have had some knowledge of |
the matter was held on suspicion by the |
police Of the Maodougal Street station, in
whose jurisdiction it is supposed that the
deed was done A largo force Of detectives
from the central office, together with a
number of men from the precinct station
house, arc at work on the case.
The circumstances OF the Killing Of Alice
Walsh are peculiar in almost every aspect.
About o'clock sunday morning a wom-
an was found in the hallway Of 143 Thomp-
son street half unconscious and bleeding
The attention of Patrolman Thomas
OGorman Of tho Maodougal station was
called to her shortly after he went on post
at o'clock The first man to find her
was Yincenzo Ster. an italian bootblack,
who lives on the third iloor Of the tene-
ment 143 Thompson street. He found
her as he was passing down stairs on his
way to his work.
Drunk and Dying.
At that time she was leaning on the
railing of the stairs in half dazod state.
Ster thought she was drunk and informed
Patrolman O'Gorman, who repaired TO
the spot. BY the time he had arrived the
woman had fallen upon the floor. Near
her feet was large pool of blood. It was
| even then quite dark in the hallway and
| O'Gorman lighted a match TO help him in
| his examination He went back to the
station and reported the matter to Ser
| geant Kenny, who sent for an ambulance
from St Vincents hospital In the mean
| time Sergeant Kenny sent OGorman back
/ to the place whore the woman was lying
/ in company with Patrolmen Chrystal and
| Sullivan.
No ono who was there at the moment
knew the name Of the woman, who had bo-
como senseloss and O'Gonnan sent over
to the Yorktown hotel. a resort kept BY a
| Frenchman named Dien, at 154 Yhomp-
son street, Just across the street. Philip
Mewley, tho night clerk, readily idonti-
fed her as Alice Walsh.
Mewley had hardly completed his iden-
tifoation when tho ambulance from -
Vinoent's drove up in charge IF DR. j. a.
Kyle 1t was apparent that tile woman
was under the influence Of liquor, and
that she was also suffering from hemor-
rhage, but 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 alcoholism and sick
ness. Alcoholic cases are not usually
treated in St Nincenr's hospital, and So
the patient was transferred Immediately
to Bellevue hospital arriving there al
7.25 a. IN. She was received by DR.. Finch
and was placed in division 3, ward 21 I'M
der the immediate supervision of DR.. RE
gelman Of the hospital staff.
Every effort Of the physicians to stop
the flow of blood proved futile and the
patient expired at 1916 o'clock. having
been in the institution less than fouI
hours. During that period she showed nc
signs Of returning consciousness and died
without indicating IN any way how she met
with the circumstance which resulted in
her death.
In the course Of the afternoon DIR. Phil
ip OHanlon, coroner's physician, made {
postmortem examination Of the body anC
discovered the real cause which mad'
death certain. lie found that the woman
was bruised and black and blue in almos
every part Of her body. He found alsl
that she had been brutally mutilated witt
knife or dagger, and that the wound
thus resulting had started the hemorrhag
which had terminated fatally. II was
. wonder, he said, that she had survived s.
2 long. The wounds were for the most par
internal and not superficial, at least thos
that had been made by tho knife or dagger
search Tor Mysterious italian.
4 AS soon as the exact nature Of tn
q wounds had been discovered. which mad
! tho theory that murder had been done ah
i solutely positive the police Of the ccntra
office and Of the precinct in which tn
y woman was found were notified, and the
y had large detail on the case in fey
q minutes. it was known that the woma
L was in the habit Of froquenting the Yorh
s town hotel, and it was thought that th
b clerk Mewley. who had identified her
IS the carly morning, might be able 70 So
d as to whether she had passed the nigh
Is there. He denied that she had done 50, bu
q | he was detained until further invest
CATION Of the matter could be made
i After much searching about the neigi
a borhood it was found that the woman, ]
Il company with a tall, broad shouldere
!. man who looked like an italian, woma
known as Gimpy Amanda, a girl calle
Teenie and another man, had spent po
tion Of the early morning hours in the g
B. loon of E. N. Garland at los West Hou
" ton street. While in there che becan
Il greatly intoxicated, and she and her ia
le companion quarreled.
i'd They left there, SO far as could be asce
q. tained, at about O'Clock a. m. What ha
pened to her or where she went durir
the intervening two hours cannot at pre-
ent be told
IT The night clerk in the Yorktown hot
CT said that she was not there, and no oi
Of saw her coming out Of the place who b
Id come forward to disclose that fact.
& seems impossible that she was thus m
20 tilated in the hallway where she was d
a covered by the Italian bootblack, and Z
Al police assert that she did not come to b
injuries in any room in the teneme
above
The police hope to have some defni
theory upon which to work and expt
that they will soon be able to apprehe