The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-17
woman Who Posed as His
Wife Tells story Of Child
Murder Confessions.
HELD IN BALTIMORE CELL
New Inquiry Started Into
Deaths Of LeOnOre COhn
and Charlie Murray.

ponce station here on petty charge is
man giving his name as Edgar Cor
Edward) Jones. who. according TO the
story of a woman who has been passing
as his wife. is the Jack the Ripper who
last spring.
The woman accuses Jones OF having
murdered on March 10 last Leonore
Anna Cohn and on May Charlie Muir
ray. Both children we're 8 years old.
both were murdered In the Railways of
their homes and the New York police
have always believed that the same man
murdered them both.
According to the woman who says
that Jones's right name is Attilleo Fasco
and that her own name is Grace Elliott.
although they have been using the name
of Jones, both were employed at Belle
vue Hospital, which is near the places
of both murders Jones was an orderly.
she says. and she was cook.
Tells of Confessions.
on March 10. she says Jones came
home and she saw that his clothes were
smeared with blood Leonore Cohn was
murdered on March l0)
What Is the matter with your
clothes?" she says she asked Jones, ac-
cording to Police Captain santry. She
then said
"He told me that he had killed a lit
tie girl and requested that say nothing.
The next morning the papers were full
of the murder. did not tell on him
because | loved him more than anything
else In the world
She related how Jones. or Fasco.
afterward came to her and confessed he
had just killed little boy. The morn
ing after this she read in the newspapers
Of the murder Of Charlie Murray. He
and she then left New York and went
to Washington, where they remained
for few weeks, and then came here.
Jones was arrested on Sunday,
charged with having defrauded South
Baltimore boarding house keeper. He was
locked up In the Southern police station
and soon the woman visited him there.
obviously she had been drinking: she
stood in front Of his cell. repeatedly call
! ing him Ripper! I" "Rpper
Overheard by Matron.
| The matron. Mrs. Rudolph. overheard
/ this and tried to question the woman
about it. Mrs. Jones got impatient at
7 the questioning and then asked to have
| the police captain brought to her.
Il want to tell him something that
will open his eyes" she said.
DO you know who this man Jones
J is?" she asked the captain. He is the
famous Jack the Ripper Of New York,
and the Manhattan bulls have been
chasing him all over the country. II
you are real cops you won't let him es-
cape. He's the man who murdered
Leonore Cohn and Charlie Murray last
spring, and II you don't believe me call
in the New York police and let them
investigate my story.
This thing has been worrying me
tor months: l hated to tell. because l
love this man"
| Jones was arrested here on July 80
for being drunk on the streets. A long
bladed knife with white handle was
found in his pocket. He never reclaimed
1t, and the police now have 1t. The
woman says that Jones used this knife
on both the children he murdered.
The records OF Bellevue Hospital show
that no persons named Edgar Jones or
! Grace Jones or Elliott have been en-
pioyed there in recent years. but at the
Mills Training School for Nurses, at
First avenue and Twenty-sixth street
which is so closely allied to Bellevue
Hospital that careless user of term,
might easily make mistake. a Grace
Jones and her husband are well remem-
bered.
The records OF the training school
were locked up last night, so 1t was inn
possible to learn between what dates
Jones and the woman who passed as his
wife were employed there. but 1t was
for a period of about three weeks some
time in the spring.
Through Employment Agency.
The woman. giving the name OF Grac,
Jones, came first. through regular EN-
ployment agency which had been asket
to find second cook for the school
Grace Jones answered and In a day o.
two when the school needed the services
of a night watchman Mrs Jones sug
gested her husband. who, she said, hat
had "A spell of hard luck.
Jones appeared and got the job,
group of nurses last night applied thes
phrases 10 his appearance Horrible
looking" ''Detestable looking" ugly a
sin" and "Repusive," Outside of tina
he was said To be about so years old
short and stocky, possessing gra.
mustache. When the superintendent be
held him for the first time she wanted L
know why It was necessary to give
man OF such appearance the Job.
After consultation with Deput!
Commissioner Guy II. Scull last night
Inspector Cray sent Capt, Gildea to Bal
timore.
Capt, Gildea telephoned to police head
quarters last night that city Marsha
Carter OF Baltimore would not permi
him to see Jones, but that he hoped 4
, have talk with the prisoner In tn
, morning. None of Joness friends ha
/ been permitted to communicate with him
A detective who saw Jones earlier |,
the day said that he IL dark and o
. medium size. He said his mother wa
an Indian and his father Frenchmar
Cholera Case In Wuerttemberg.