Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-05-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

JACK THE RIPPER" IN NEW YORK.  Late at night a man and a woman entered the East River Hotel, a low Water-street resort in New York. They registered—but the signatures cannot be made out—end engaged an upper room, to which they immediately retired. Not the slightest noise was heard during the night from their apartment, but in the morning, when the servant rapped at the door, her summons was unanswered. The servant went below and informed the manager, who came upstairs, and with the assistance of a porter burst open the door. The woman was found in lied quite dead and °neared with blood, having been dreadfully mutilated with a broken table-knife, which was found in the room. The head was bandaged with a cloth, which was tied round the neck, and also covered the face. The man who accompanied the murdered woman had disappeared, though he had not been seen to leave the hotel. He is described as being about 32 years of age, and shabbily dressed. The police have been busy with the case, and have arrested a man who had been long acquainted with the murdered woman, but he says he was drank on Friday night and knows nothing about the matter. The deceased's name is yet unknown, but she is recognised as one of the half-drunken creatures who infest the waterside resorts in the vicinity of the scene of the murder. The characteristics of the tragedy are so exactly similar to the Whitechapel murders that the police confidently express the belief that the murderer is "Jack the Kipper." Another account says that the cmple were assigned a room, and nothing was heard of them during the night. About noon the landlord gave orders for them to be-roused, but loud banging at the door failed to elicit any response. The people of the house, fearing that something was wrong, then sent for the police, and in their presence the door was forced. The first man who got in yelled out "Murder," and rushed from the room pale and sick. He bad cause, for murder of the foulest description had been committed in the lit:le room. Upon the bed lay the body of the woman, mutilated in the fiendish manner peculiar to Jack the Ripper, the abdomen being ripped up and the viscera exposed in away which showed that part of it had been carried away by the murderer. The face vras entirely hidden, a chemise, a sheet, and a petticoat having been wound in the order named round the head. When these had been removed, the throat was found to be only slightly cut, but a stocking was tied round it tightly enough to cause suffocation. There was also a heavy knife wound in the body near the base of the spine. The murder and mutilation had been, to all appearance, done by a heavy. table-knife, which, having broken in the murderers hand, had been thrown on the floor, where it was found by the police. The body was quite cold when found, and the surgeons are of opinion that the woman's life was taken in the small hours of the morning, but the stillness of the night was not broken by any cry for help, nor, indeed, any noise whatsoever, and the murderer made good his escape as noiselessly as he committed the crime. The murderer's identity has not been established, but the police have obtained from the hotel people information upon which they have issued a description of him an" aged about 30, shabby appearance, slight build, Mt. Bin, high, light complexion, sandy hair, small sandy moustache." The name of the victim has not been ascertained, and all that is known of her at present is that she frequented the district as an unfortunate. A disreputable female companion of the murdered woman has been arrested, but she was drunk when taken into custody, and could not then be questioned.  An Anglican Church Conference will be held at Wiesbaden on May 13 and 14, under the presidency of Bishop Wilkinson, the Bishop-coadjutor of London for Northern and Central Europe. The bishop is announced to give an opening address, and several papere on current Church topics of interest will be read.