Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-31
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 at
once to the minds of officers and doctors
who were called, the Jack the Ripper"
murders some years ago.
A 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 pillow, which lay across her
face, was the imprint of a 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 and went to a Bowery saloon,
where he remained until l o'clock in 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 1O o'clock and that he did not go
| out again afterwards.
The murdered woman, before her mar
11dSe W luS DIOluSI, 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. He has wife
and two children living, hardly stones
throw from the scene of the crime.
Martin Winterstein, 30 years of age,
a fireman on the steamer Colon, shot and
killed Mrs. Annie Larsen, % years old,
in hon .1stY,, nY,te
ing.
Mrs. Sallie Pruhn, 20 years old, q
cousin of Mrs. Larsen, was shot and
seriously wounded by the fireman.
Winterstein was arrested after a hard
struggle. He was infatuated with Mrs.
Larsen and said that jealousy prompted
the crime.
Epileptic Is Held.
James Moore's son Edward, aged Is
years. was arrested and technically held
as a witness in the Moore murder case
after his father had been examined by
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's
son, Edward, testified that his father
was accused by the dead woman of hav-
ing brutally beaten her last Sunday.
Moore admitted striking the woman.
| Three life insurance policies were
found in the room. They were issued by
the Prudential company on May l, 1906.
One of them, for $$275, was on the life
| of the woman and made payable to the
prisoner. The others were on the life
of Moore made payable to the woman
Murders Father for $500.
SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 2S.-The
body of James f. Sloane, a pioneer mer-
chant of this city, was found today be-
hind a pile of rocks in an alley near his
home. Investigation proved that he was
murdered in his room shortly after mid
night, his body being loaded into a
wheelbarrow, trundled to the alley and
dumped against the rocks. Sidney
Sloane, the 17-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 $500, which he thought his father
carried.
Woman in the Case.
GALIEN, Mich, Aug. 2S-The gen
orally accepted theory is that Lloyd
| Dynes, a Michigan Central train dis
| patcher, was murdered because of
an ENHANCEMENT with a woman in which
he recently was reported to have figured.
| Dynes, in statement through the press,
denied all connection with the scandal,
but most of the residents of Galien still
believe the story.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that
Dynes had an enemy in Detroit who had
| threatened to kill him.