The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-01
MOST BRUTAL MURDER
A Woman Called Into the Yard By Her Husband,
 and Was Stabbed.
JEALOUSY WAS THE CAUSE
THOMAS r. KIPPIE KILLS HIS WIFE
 IN COLD BLOOD.

Back With Him-Murderer Was Not
 Drunk and OfArs no S,xcuses-Wife Was
 Divorced Before She Married Him
 Caught While CoolIy Walking Away
 John T. Hartman Fries to Save Her Hut | the Husband Catches Her-He Was Only
 Attired in His Undershirt, Drawers and
 Stockings, But After the Murder Put On
 More CIothes-Caught By Neighbors and
 Delivered to the Police.
 The deliberate butchery of a woman coolly planned and executel was perpe- trated by Thomas F. Ripple last night shortly before o'clock. He called his wife into the yard and there without warning stabbed her to death. The murder was the consummation of the plans of fiendish, jealous brute and was carried out with reckless persist ency. The stories are somewhat con- tlicting in detail, but generally coin eide. Ripple and his wife have been living with James Clancy at "A Silver street. Last night she sat at table in Mrs. Clancy's peeling potatoes. Kip pie came from an inner room and as he walked by his wife toward the outer door he said: Mary, I want to see you" She followed him to the door and into the yard The accounts of what followed differ slightly from this point. Mrs. Clancy alleges that she heard the report of a pistol and then heard Mrs. Ripple scream. But John T. Hartman, a carpenter at "A Silver street, who saw the murder, said that there was no shot fired. Just as Mrs. Ripple reached the yard following her husband he turn ed and made stab at her. She lodged at the blow, but it reached her right breast. Hartman, who was in the nearby yard, ran to them and attempt ed to save the woman She saw Hart man and sought protection behind him. Her would-be rescuer tried to ward off the infuriated husbands blows and sue ceeded in keeping him from her. In his endeavor to save the woman Hart- man received a slight wound on the forehead Mrs. Ripple tried dart to escape. but she ran blindly. As she got behind Hartman Ripple made a
 dash for her and caught her in the . y and the woman had little chance to es- cape. As the fiend brandisihed the knife and shook his right arm free from her grasp she screamed: Tom! Tom! For Gods sake, don't kill me!'
 But the now thoroughly infurated man drove the knife with terrific force deep into her breast. She staggered, groaned and then fell heavily on he. 1o ha ed in torrents from her wounds and from her nostrils
 During all this time Ripple had been attired in nothing save his stockings, drawers and a shirt He calmly went into the house and put on his trousers, shoes, overcoat and hat, and started to make his escape. He managed to dis pose of the knife in some way, for it could not be found.
 The crowd quickly collected from the neighborng houses, which are thickly populated, and followed Ripple as he walked coolly out of the house and down the street towards Hill street. | One man made bold enough to take hold of him, and as he made no resist ance large number rushed forward and held him with grips like that of
 
 stable A. c. Martin, who was with Pa trolman Powers on Hill street, that murderer had been caught. Both off cers rushed toward the crowd, which was slowly advancing, and they took the murderer The patrol wagon was sent from station 1 and Sergeant Cook who was in charge there, immediately sent Sergeant Cowles and Detective Me- of +Io 5ar
 Ripple was brought to the lookup and as he entered the station his first words were "WelI, I've done it this time" He was placed in cell in the upper tier in the general lookup and word was sent to Coroner Mix and Medical Examiner White.
 When these officers reached the scene of the murder they found Officers Peter Dargan. Rice and Streit keeping back a large crowd, and Sergeant Cowles and Detective McGrath busily gathering the
 details of the horrible crime.
 The body of the victim was taken to Lewis & Maycock's in the police ambu- lance
 The murdered woman is we'll known to the police. She was about thirty-hVe years of age, of dark complexion and plunp Dullu. CHc was hietAAASN to Max Foley, a barber, who keeps on
 George street, when but eighteen years old. Five years after their marriage she was divorced and a short time after married Ripple. They have not lived together peacefully and several times
 both were arrested for fighting and for drunkenness.
 In 1891 Ripple went west and did not return until a few weeks ago. He had been in Ohio and had sent on some money to his wife to go to him. She had spent the money for liquor and
 could not go to him and he came east to find her. She was working in Thom as restaurant at 116 George street wheE he came. On last Monday he went to her place O. employment and, he then alleged. drew a pistol on her. She had him arrested. but when the case came up for trial in the city court the fol lowing morning Mrs. Ripple would not testify against him and the case was continued until February 29, he being