The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-20

lice. Though the number OF these
crimes has probably by no means in
creased as rapidly as population, stu,
hanks to the remarkable new facilities
enjoyed all the world hears today OF
the crimes committed yesterday, pro-
yided that they happen anywhere with
in easy reach of telegraph wires. The
majority OF mysterious crimes and also
the majority of murderers who escape
punishment. are to be found where
population is densest, that is TO say,
in the big cities. In the past ten years
almost every large city in the world
has contributed a more or less lengthy
series of atrocious murders, the perpe-
traitors of which have remained undis-
covered, or, at any rate, have managed
| TO evade Justice. Jack-theR Ripper MUIR
| ders in London. the work of Eyraud,
the Frenchman, of the stranger in New
York. his imitator in Chicago, and the
very recent cases in San Francisco VIII
occur at once to the memory OF any
newspaper reader quite apart from
their taking any particular interest In
such records.
And yet all mysterious murders do
not occur in big cities. Indeed, many
Of those which have so far been incapa-
BILE of solution have been committed in
the open country, though not far from
some large town. This is especially
true of New York, Connecticut and New
Jersey. states which have been fruitful
in cases of the kind mentioned, espec-
tally the latter state. which has come
to be known as bloody Jersey"
Who killed Mary Stannard, in Rock
land, Conn, on Sept. 3, 1878; Jennie
Cramer at New Haven, on Aug. g, 1881
Rose Clark Amber. at Stratford, Conn.
on Sept. 2. 1888; Phoebe Paulin. neal
Orange, on Nov. "a, 1888; Tillie Smith
I'm Hacketstown. on March %, 1887
Mary Anderson, near Perth Amboy, Oh
June 8, 1892?
Who killed these young women, tn
oldest of whom was hardly % years o
age. the youngest IS, all of them prett.
and well-known?
Then, who killed Mamie Sullivan.
music teacher. on Wednesday night
March 4, within sight of her home OF
one of the principal thoroughfares o
Paterson. n. j.? The dying girl wa
found at $50 p. IN. A reputable citizel
had passed by the spot where her bod
was found at 9:27 o'clock, and had see
no sign of her. Within three minute
her assailant had murdered her. Sh
died some few hours later at the nos
pital without regaining consciousness
These names have carefully been sc
lected from the long list of youn
women who have been murdered In IN
last twenty years in small towns fe'
miles from New York. The state
New Jersey has fairly earned for itse
he name of the State of Mysteries.
Mary Stannard was 10 years old, ia
and handsome when, in 1875, she lie
the POOR home of her father to go
work at Gulford as a servant. yea
later she returned to her fathers HON
She had fallen in with young man
the town. She never told who this ma
was. and his name is unknown 10 IN
dav. Early in the fall of 1878 the vi
lage residents, sharp-eyed as are a
country people. noticed that the 81
was in low spirits, that often she Won
burst into tears when spoken TO. III
villagers said that she had been q
ceived again.
lie On Tuesday. Sept 8, Mary told h
is father. right after she had her Dime
L, that she was going to Whippoorw
l. rock to pick blackberries. At supp
re time her body was found. The head h'
n. been crushed in. the throat cut; {
"a body lay on the ground with the nan