The New York herald., 1922-04-12
NELLIE OF BOWERY
KILLED BY A RIPPER
Body Of Familiar Habituc
Found in Hallway With
Clothing Nearby.

In the hallway OF the tenement house
at II Catharine street yesterday MORN
ing William Yeljedsky. the janitor.
found the unclothed and mutilated body
OF Nellie OF Chatham Square Nellie
Tracy The murder was ghastly. BE
cause the crime fas in this neighbor-
hood and had similar revolving features
the police at once compared it to the
killing of Carrie Brown--Old Shake
speare-by Frenchy Ben Ali. in 1891.
The mystery in the Staying of Nellie
Tracy was complete. The body was
Gertified by Frank McGowan, whose
mother employed the woman as a do
me site in lodging house at 16La Ham
ilton street Whoever killed her tore
her clothing off as one would tear the
wrapping from a package. He threw
the clothing around the hall and Is sup
posed to have taken with him the
womans stockings inasmuch as they arc
the only articles missing. Not far away
. from the house lay Nelles shawl which
her assailant had used to clean his.
, hands.
I.eath was due to stab wounds In the
abdomen There are evidences that he
g
Roy and Gray of the Oak street station
90 id they pinned their hopes of finding
| the murderer 10 a possibility of news or
the missing stockings. Neither was over
optimistic.
The body OF Nellie of Chatham Square
was taken to the Morgue. The police
say that they know nothing Of any pos
sible relatives. Mrs MCGOWAN said
Nellie was about 40 years old, and had
ccme from ireland when young girl
For ten years she has been more or
less familiar character on the Bowery
/ y the vicinity OF Chatham Square. she
was regarded as something OF dereiict
ce spite her comparative youth. and Mrs.
| MCGOWAN declared Nellie to have been
O fine type of woman before she began
frequenting the back rooms Of che
\ Eowery's drinking places.
I Five years ago, they say. Nellie went
| L the Municipal Lodging House and
4 begged the authorities there 10 send her
somewhere where she could be cured
OF the alcohol habit. She was sent to
one OF the city hospitals and emerged in
I fine condition. She stayed out OF the
back rooms for almost year. but the
I flesh was weak For the last few
months Nellie had been drinking the
third rail stuff that is peddled in Chat
| ham Square and Its enNlronS, ana tne
old timers said they had never seen
Nellie so bad.
Policemen and reformers meant moth
ing to Nellie. She would listen TO Mrs
McGowan--the only person she seemed
t. respect Ten days ago Mrs. MCGOWAN
I tried to drag Nellie TO hersfeet and the
unhappy woman, wildly weeping. prom
isad to make another effort. She said
she could do better II she were sent to
the hospital again. She couldn't remem-
ber the hospital where she had been
treated previously and decided she could
de- no better than to start at the Munich
pal Lodging House.
Early In the day Patroinan Gaffncy
and Riley arrested a man IN Catharine
street near East Broadway The man
was drunk and his hands were stained
Later they found that this man had
cut his fingers on a broken bottle. He
was locked up for intoxication and the
police say he Is not suspected Of the
murder OF Nellie Of Chatharl Square.
Like the murder Of Nellie Tracy and
Old Shakespeare was that of sarah Mar
tin in December, 1903. Sarah Martin
was known as Old Cob Dock and her
body was found In Kely'G Hotel. .
James slip. Emil Tottermaa. a sailor
received life sentence for her murder
hut escaped from the prison camp at
Beekman. " Y, N 1916.