The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-08-30
JACK THE RIPPER
STAYS A WOMAN
A Horrible Crime in New York City
Recalls the Celebrated Mys-
terieS

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Horrible
wounds found on the dead body of Mrs,
Annie Moore. early today, recalled aid
once TO the minds of officers and doctors
who were called, the Jack the Ripper
murders some years ago.
y hurried investigation by the police
showed no signs of struggle and the
police conclude that the woman had been
attacked in her sleep.
Bloody Hand on Pillow.
On a pillow, which lay across her
face, was the imprint of bloody hand.
The victims hands were so clean that
the police believe the marks must have
been left by the murderer
James Moore, who passed as the hus-
band OF the woman, maintains that he Is
innocent. He told the police that he left
the house in Second street at o'clock
last night AMI went to Bowery saloon,
where he remained until ! o'clock i'll the
morning. Police inquiries at the saloon
developed the information that Moore
had been there until Just before 10
O'Clock. when he left.
lodgers in the Second street house told
the police that Moore returned home at
about IL o'clock aud that he did not go
out again afterwards.
The murdered woman. before her mar
riage to the prisoners brother was
Annie Fitch. After her husbands death
she went rapidly down the scale of life.
Dying of Consumption.
Moore, the prisoner is in an advanced
stage OF consumption. lie has wife
and two children living, hardly stones
throw from the scene of the crime.
Martin Winterstein, 80 years of age.
a fireman on the steamer Colon, shot and
killed Mrs Annie Larsen, - years old.
in her apartments in brooklyn this morn
ing.
Mrs. Sallie pruhn, % years old, Il
cousin of Mrs. Larsen, was shot and
seriously wounded by the fireman.
WinterSten was arrested after hard
struggle. lie was infatuated with Mrs.
Larsen and said that Jealousy prompted
the crime.
Epileptic Is Held.
James Moorc's son Edward, aged Is
years, was arrested and technically held
as witness in the Moore murder ease
after his father had been examined 10y
the police. The youth is said to have
suffered from epilepsy for several years.
Moore was held without bail to await
the action of the grand jury. Moore :
son, Edward, testified that his father
was accused by the dead woman of hav-
ing hrutally beaten her last Sunday.
Moore admitted striking the woman.
Three life insurance policies were
found in the room. They were issued 10y
the Prudential company on May |, 1906.
One of them, for S$21J, was on the life
of the woman and made payable to the
prisoner. The others were on the lie
of Moore, made payable to the woman.
Murders Father for $500.
SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 2S.-Ihe
body of James f. Sloane, pioneer mef-
chant OF this city, was found today be
hind a pile of rocks i'll an alley near his
home. Investigation proved that he WAS
murdered in his room shortly after mid
night, his body being loaded into n
wheelbarrow, trundled to the alley and
dumped against the rocks. Sidney
Sloane, the l1-year-Old son of the muir
dered man, was arrested. broke down
and confessed. He said he slew his
father with an axe in the hope of get
ting 5000, which he thought his father
carried.
Woman in the Case.
GALIEN, Mich. Aug. 2S.-Thc gen
orally accepted theory is that LLOYD
Dyues, Il Michigan Central train dis
patCher, was murdered because of
an ENHANCEMENT with Il woman in which
he recently was reported to have figured
DyneS, in a statement through the press
denied all connection with the scandal
but most of the residents of Galien still
believe the story.
There is an unconiirmcd rumor that
DEneS had an enemy in Detroit who had
threatened to Kill him.