The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-04-07
JACK THE RIPPER
FATALLY WOUNDS
UNKNOWN WOMAN
Stabs Her to Death
With a Small
Penkknife.
SUSPECT UNDER ARREST
The Victim Identifies James
Boyne Shortly Before
She Expires.
SUSPECT UNDER ARREST

NEW YORK, April "A young wo-
man, who gave her name as May Will
son, but refused to disclose her identity,
died in st. Vincent Hospital, at $50
o'clock, this morning from frightfui
stab wound inflicted shortly after mid
night in the Hotel Lawrence, so East
Thirteenth street. Before she expired
she identified James Boyne. steward of
the Avon Beach Regular Democratic
Club. at Bay and Twenty-fourth streets.
near Bath Beach. az the man who had
stabbed her.
Boyne declares he never saw the Wo-
man before he confronted her in the
hospital for the purpose of identified ton.
The young woman was about twenty
years old. and Boyne gave his age US
rwenty-one. Blood was found on Boyne's
hands and the sleeves OF his shirt also
upon his vest. He was arraigned in the
police court later and committed to
await further examination.
Work of a Degenerate.
The stabiing. according to Police Cap
tain Bourk'4. is undoubtedly the work of
| q degenerate with a mania for murder.
The man who stabbed this woman is
| a Jack the Ripper declared the police
! captain. '.Of that l am certain"
! The stabb'ng was most mysterious. A
man and a woman went to the Hotel
Lawrence shortly after midnight. and
after registering as Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith, were assigned to a room on the
second floor. An hour after the man
and woman were In the room there came
a eiercing scream which echoed through
the block. The scream was heard by
Mrs. Bertha Newell, proprietor of the
house, and by Minnie Smith. a cham
bermaid The cilambermaid ran to the
second floor, and was peeping through
the keyhole of the room occupied by
the couple when the door was thrown
overcoat in hand
On the bed sat the woman. fully dress
ed, with blood pouring from a great
wound In her abdomen. The chamber
maid followed the man to the ground
floor. and there meeting Mrs. Newell
said:
That man has stabbed the woman
who came mere with him. Hold him.
Mrs. Newell and the chambermaid
tried to catch hold of the man, when he
said: Il haven't stabbed anyone. I am
perfectly willing to walt for the po-
lice"
Detectives Lloyd and Kenyon, wh5
har~ ened TO be near by, and who heard
the Shrek, came up and placed the man
! under arrest.
One of the detectives went up to the
room and tried to question the woman
| but she closed her eyes and refused &c
give any informatios. 1t was plain tina,
she was concealing her own identity
Remained Obstinately Silent.
An ambulance was called, and the wo.
man was removed to st. Vincent's hos
i pital. There it was found that -four
: inches of a broken knife blade was stil
in her abdomen. The blade had pierced
the abdomen wall, and had made half {
dozen punctures in her intestlnes. Tn,
doctors told her she would die, but she
remained obst!nately silent.
\ search of the room in which tn.
stabbing occurred brought forth brols
en- case knife. the blade of which hat
been about fourteen inches long Th'
: knife did not belong TO the house. ant
had been brought there by either th
6 man or the woman. 1t was new.
e Boyne was taken to the Mercer stree
6 police station ana questioned at length
| He persisted IN his first statement tina
= he did not know the woman. that he hat
n never seen her before, and that he haC
! not stabbed her. Later he was takel
to the hospital and into the presence 0
the dyirg woman.
Identified at Hospital.
He stabbed you, you say?' Captail
6 Bourke asked the woman after she ha,
;. identified Boyne.
Yes. ne did" she answered. Il me
: him at Third avenue last night II
e asked me TO go with him, and | did, lik
a fool that l was. / was talking wit
e him in the room when suddenly h
n seized me from behind and plunged
/; knife into my side. | tried to fight hir
l. off and | did. Then he rushed at m
and buried the knife in my stomach
Il don't know why he did It, We had n
" quarrel and no angry words
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