New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-21
JACK THE RIPPER CRIME
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| rega rded as a good clew 10 the murderer. Ihey
showed that on Saturday there had been pur-
chased of 'Meigs & Co. Incorporated, BRIDGE
port Conn.," one pair of shoes for 81 90 and
sweater for So Jennie Stats told the police
that the man wore sweater when ne ieIt tne
hotel Yesterday afternoon. This clew leads the
notice to believe that the was a stranger
to the woman; that he had come TO TINS city
Saturday from Bridgeport. and that he met the
woman by accident On the wrapper that COW
cred the shoe box was written in lead pencil
the name "B. Beeno."
The Bridgeport police authorities were tola oy
telephone of the facts las night. Central Of
flee men started for Bridgeport to cooperate
with the police of that city in running down
the clews.
John Gleason. the bartender in Kelly's place,
told the police that he believed the slain woman
had lived with Mother" Olsen at No. 80 Cherry
ST Jennie Stats also thought she recognlzeo
the body as that of an inmate OF the olsen
woman's house and detectives took the Olsen
woman to look at the body She identined IL
as that of Sarah Martin. She said the Martin
woman had lived with her at one time, out not
recently She believed the woman had relatives
or friends living IN East Eighty-fourth-st-, ana
detectives were sent uptown to try to find them.
Several other women who We're inmates of
houses in Cher-y-st. were taken to the police
station.
Assistant District Attorney Caravan had some
of the testimony reduced to writing but ne
said he could not give out any facts ne had
learned because of new rule which Mr. Jerome
had made that all information must come from
the District Attorney himself. Mr. Jerome at
his home in Lakeville Conn. declined last night
to lift the embargo.
Kelly and other inmates OF his hotel were
Kept at the police station until late hour last
night while the body of the murdered woman
remained undisturbed and guarded by police
men in uniform. The place is only a stones
throw from the place where Carrie Brown.
Shakespeare was murdered. 1t is a three
story frame structure. The police say that the
real proprietor of the place is Doc" Gleason,
father of the bartender. Sailors have known the
place as Slaughter House Point
On the ground floor is the barrOOm with doors
opening in James slip and Water-st, and back
of the barrOom is a sitting room.
There is a hotel entrance in Water-st This
leads to a small hallway separating the sitting
room and barrOom. The second floor is cut up
into small rooms for dodgers and the top floor
is used as sleeping apartments by those con-
nected with the place. Captain Lantry said
that the place has been condemned by the
Board of Health as unsanitary and also by the
Fire Department
Captain Lantry says he has arrested John
Gleason three times various charges, but
that the bartender has been discharged every
time.
"SHAKESPEARE" MURDER RECALLED.
The murderer is described by Kelly and the
stats woman. who saw him plainly, of
dunn height and stout with blond hair and
mustache and gray eyes He dressed much
like a sailor shore leave. and his walk and
general appearance those of a sailor off
duty. The washbasin in the room where the
murder was committed filled with bloody
water. showing that the man had washed his
hands carefully to remove traces of his crime.
There was some suspicion last night that the
murderer might be the same man who killed
"Old Shakespeare" Ben Ali. known as
"Frenchy." was convicted Of that crime and
sent prison life sentence, but he was
released some months ago and sent back to his
former home in Algeria. 1t known that
the who took Carrie Brown to the East
River Hotel in 1891 not "Frenchy.'' His
description tailed closely with that of the man
who murdered Sarah Martin. He had been en-
plOyed a stabeman country place in
New Jersey and he disappeared soon after the
murder of odd Shakespeare" He left behind
him a bundle of bloody garments and q key
which fitted the door of the room in which the
old woman was killed It was remembered later
that he had been away from his place Of en-
plOyment the night of the murder, and had
returned the next day, drunk and in ugly
temper. 1t was not until long after the cOnvic-
ton of "Frenchy' that the employer of this
man gave Information about the discovery of
the key TO the hotel room and the bloody cloth
ing. The police theory on which "Frenchy'
convicted was that he got into the room after
another had gone away.
He said he had backed his patrol wagon up
to the hotel" several times since he had been
in the precinct and that he had taken fully
three hundred women out of the place in raids.
A careful search was made of the room in
which the murder took place and other parts
of the house. for the knife used by the murder
CT. but the knife not found
Sarah Martin short of stature and
weighed perhaps $50 pounds Her face was
pulled and showed the effects of alcohc lism.
The woman, however, not intoxicated
Kelly says, al the time she entered the hotel.
Inspector McClusky said last night that Sarah
Martin had been we'll known in Water-st. for
fifteen years. She is said to have been married
to sailor named Martin Larson. She is said
10 have sister living uptown in Second-ave.
She was known to her associates in the Cherry
Hill section cob Dock
Inspector McClusky says that Kelly told him
q story that conhicted somewhat with the
stories told by other witnesses According to
this story. Sarah Martin was sitting in the back
room of the hotel" about 10 o'clock Saturday
night when the man in the case entered He
sat down at a table with her and thew had two
rounds of drinks The woman drank whiskey
and the man beer After that they talked for
a while. The told Kelly that she wanted
a room for all night" Kelly told his wife to
assign them to
About II 30 o'clock the man went to the bath
room. He spoke to the housekeeDer and then
went back to the room.
About half an hour later the woman appeared
and spoke to the housekeeper She handed
Jennie 81 bill and told her to get pint flask
of whiskey. Jennie went to the barroom and
got the whiskey, returning with 1t and 81 30 In
change. The two women drank the whiskey in
the hallway, the woman telling Jennie that the
The inspector says his men have been busy
looking up the ships that left port Yesterday or
those that are about 10 sail, also the Fulton
Market fishing smacks. He said that II being
Sunday his men were handicapped in their
work.
Bridgeport Conn. Dec 2O.-Frank D. Bell
manager for Meigs & Co. says Saturday after
noon. between and . O'Clock, man evidently
has Of