Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-07-11
RIPPER
IS CAPTURED
Murder Of An Old Woman and tlu,
tiation of, Girl elimination Of
a Series Of Crimes.
BELIEVED TO BE A mADxAs
Arrested in the Outskirts Of the C;t,
After Committing Two Shock
ing Crimes.
coNFEssEs HE IS THE cuLra,1
Declares the Women "w.re After HIN,
and Ho Had to XIII Them-NIiss Jessie
Kinport and Mrs. Amelia Bulls
His Latest Victims.

Denver Colo, July 1O.-NIrs. Amelia
A. Bulls, 60 years OF age, was stabbed
to death last night on a highway In
the outskirts of the city. Jessie Kin
port. aged IA, was assaulted and terri
bly, mutilated with knife at her home
and may die of her wounds. Carl Jen-
sen. alias Johnson, aged 25, who is In
custody. has confessed both crimes.
He is believed to be crazy.
Jessie ISinport is the 14-year- old
daughter of Mrs. Carrie d. Kinport,
who resides at 119 West Ninth avenue.
She was assaulted and horribly mutt
lateed in her room during the absence
of her mother last night. Mrs. klnporl
upon returning home found the doors
open. Fastening to her daughter S
room she found the bed clothes strewn
about blood spattered over the room.
The girl was nowhere to be seen. She
aroused the neighbors, who began
searching the neighborhood. About
cant lot nearby, unconscious and fear
fully mutilated.
Tho Murderer In Custody.
The police authorities We're notified,
but not before Chris Jensen had been
brought to the station by Policeman
outskirts of the city. Lambert came
upon Jensen about mile and half
from the scene of the assault. AS Lam
bert approached Jensen he whipped
out knife and shouted he would not
be taken to Jail. Lambert disarmed
Jensen and brought him to the station.
On the way he repeatedly spoke OF
having to defend himself from a wo-
man. saying he had cut her up pretty
badly. The knife he had threatened
the officer With was soaked With blood.
Shortly after Jensen was locked up the
police department was notified of the
assault upon the little Kinprot girl.
They Immediately connected Jensen
with the affair. Jensen admitted to
Chief Armstrong he had stabbed and
cut women, but said he met her in the
street and she had bumped against
him as he was passing by.
From his actions the police are con-
WINGED that Jensen is demented. An
Investigation of the footprints at the
scene of the crime shows the shoes
Worn by Jensen fit the mark exactly.
The police are sure Jensen is the guilty
person. and that he has committed the
numerous assaults made upon women
of late. Miss kinport Is Still alive, but
in dangerous condition.
COnfosses His Guilt.
In the course of his examination a.
police headquarters Jensen confessed
he assaulted Jessie Kinport and also
said he stabbed another woman last
night, near the end of the University
park car line. This morning the dead
body of Mrs. Bulls was found at the
place described by Jensen. She had
been stabbed in the breast and the
blade of the knife penetrated to the
heart, causing instant death. The
body lay in the roadway and there was
no evidence of a struggle. Jensen said
the woman was after" him. So he
stabbed her. Mrs. Bulls conducted a
dairy near where she was murdered.
Jensen said he had once been shot at
in Topeka for getting into trouble with
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