Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-22
A, RIPPER IN NEW YORK.
Woman Found Mutilated 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- |
 tratur of the AtrocIOus Crime. NEW YORK. April 22-A murder was brought to light in Bellevue hospital | which is suggestive in some of its details | of the Whitechapol crimes in London that ] made Jack the Ripper notorious. Tho | victim was a woman of the lowest class. | Her name was Alice Walsh. and she was well Known in tho resorts in the neighbor- hood of Bleecker and Thompson streets. When the autopsy was performed upon her body, it was discovered that certain mH tilations had becn made which distin- | K sRUishod tho Whitochapel murders, although K mt of so serious a character.
 Up to this morning the murderer had mot been arrested, but ono man who is thought to have had some knowledge of the matter was held on suspicion by tho police of the Macdougal Street station, in whose jurisdiction it is supposed that tho ,deed was done. A large force of detectives from the central office, together with a number of men from tho precinct station house, are at work on the case,
 The circumstances of the killing of Alice Walsh arc peculiar in almost every aspect. About O clock Sunday morning a wom- an was found in the hallway of l43 Thomp- son street half unconscious and bleeding. The attention of Patrolman Thomas | O'Gorman of the Macdougal station was | called to her shortly after he went on post al o'clock. The first man to find her \ was VinocnZo Ster, an Italian bootblack, I who hves on the third floor of the tone- Encnt 143 Thompson street. He found | Der as he was passing down stairs on his I way to his work.
 Drunk and Dying.
 At that time she was leaning on the | railing of the stairs in half dazed stato. | Stsr 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 tho floor. Near her feet was a largo pool of blood. It was oven then quite dark in tho hallway, and 1 OGSurman lighted a match to holp him in I his examination. Hewent back to the statiOn and reported the matter to Ser 1 geane Kenny, who sent for an ambulance from St. Vincent's hospital In tho mean time Sergeant Kenny sent O German back l to the place where tho woman was lyina in company with Patrolmen Chrystal and ! Sullivan.
 No one who was there at tho moment 1 knew the name of the woman, who had be- 1 como senseless and O'Gorman sent over 1 to the Yorktown hotel, a resort kept by FrenchmAn named Diem. at 154 Thomp- | son street. just across the street. Philip | Newley, the night clerk, readily identi- I fed her Alice Walsh
 Mewley had hardly completed his iden- 1 tif1cation when the ambulance from St | Nincent's Groyo up in charge of Ar. J. A
 Kyle. It was apparent that tho woman was under the influence of liquor, and that she was also suffering from hemor. rhage, but tho case was looked upon as in l no way serious, and tho police reported
 tho case as that of a homeless woman who l was suffering from alcoholism and sick
 ness Alcoholic cases arc not usually
 treated in St Nincent's hospital, and So
 the patient was transferred immediately
 to Bellevue hospital. arriving thore at
 7s5 a. m. She was received by Dr. Finch and was placed in division 3, ward 2l. un- abr the immediate supervision of Dr. Ric- sSelman of the hospital staff.
 Every effort ot tho physicians to stop | the flow of blood proved futile, and tic patient expired at ll:l5 o'clock. having
 been in the institution less than four
 hours During that period sEe showed no
 signs of returning consciousness and died
 without indicating in any way how she met
 with tho circumstances which resulted in ! her death.
 I In the course of tho after noon Dr. Phil. l ip O'Hanlon, coronCrs $ physician, made ! postmortom examination of the body and
 discovered tho real cause which made \ doath certain. He found that tho woman \ was bruised and black and blue in almost \ every part of her body. llo found also
 that she had been bruIally mutilatcd with
 knife or dagger. and that the wounds
 thus resulting had started the hUmorrhage
 which had terminated fatally. It was n
 wonder. he said, that she lad survived so long. The wounds Nverc for the most part internal and not superficial. at least those
 that had been made by the knife OF dagGer
 Search For a Mysterious Italian.
 As soon as the exact nature of the wounds had been discovered which made tho theory that murder had Teen duno ab-
 solutcly positive. the polico of ihU central
 office and of the precinct in which tho
 woman was found were notified. and they
 had a large detail on tho ease in a few minutes It was known that the woman
 was in the habit of fruquC ntin;g tho York
 town hotel and it was thought that the
 clerk McwlCy. who had identified her in
 tho early morning, might he able to say
 us to whether she had passed the night
 there. He denied that she had done so. but
 he was detained until n further iuvesti- c gation of ths matter could be made. al After much searching about the neigh n borhood 1t was found that the woman, in . company with n tall, broad shouldered o man who looked like an Italian, a woman o known as Gimpy Amanda. girl called c Teenie and another man, had spent a DOT tion of the early morning hours in the sa loon of F. N. Garland at lOs West Hous- ton street. While in there she became greatly intoxicated. and she and her tall companion quarroled.
 They left there, so far as could be ascer- tained, at about o'clock a. m. What hap S ! pened to her or where she went during
 the intervening two hours cannot at pres
 ent be told.
 The night clerk in the Yorktown hoteI
 said that she was not there and no ont saw her coming out of the place who has come forward to disclose that fact Il
 seems impossible that she was thus mu
 tilated in the hallway where she was dis
 covered by the Italian bootblack, and thI
 police assert that shs did not come to bel
 injuries in any room in the tenement
 above.
 '' The police hope to have some definit,
 theory upon which to work and expec
 that they will soon be able to apprehen(
 the murderer. It is surmised that thI - man who killed her is the Italian stranger
 in whose company she was In Garlandh - saloon.
 A woman in Bellevue hospital who haC met her while serving a term on the is
 land said that she had been living with
 man named Terence Collins. who a shor
 time ago was sent to the Elmira reformA II tory. After her lover had been sent away 1 Alice took up with m Italian or Span
 iard, so the woman, Carrie Rose said.
 Alice Walsh was once a handsome girl
 Her maiden name was Alioe Benson. anG
 her father kept a restaurant at S9l Wes
 street some years ago. Four years ago sh, married @ man by the name of Desmond E.. T.