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Arizona Republican
1 May 1891
JACK THE RIPPER

Washington, April 30.
A man answering the description of Jack the Ripper is under arrest here, awaiting the arrival of the New York authorities.

BYRNES' STATEMENT.

New York, April 30.
Inspector Byrnes this morning made public a statement to the effect that a man known as "Frenchy No. 1" was ascertained to have slept in the East River Hotel on the night of the murder of Carrie Brown. This woman occupied room 31, while "Frenchy" slept in 33. On the evening of the murder, Carrie Brown was seem going into the hotel with a strange man. This man left the place before midnight. It is believed that "Frenchy No. 1" then went to the woman's room; that they quarreled and the murder followed.

This evening Joseph Franks, an Arabian, who is believed to have been the man who accompanied the woman to her room the night of her death, was arrested.

Mexican Jack the Ripper

New Orleans, April 30.
The Picayune's Del Rio, Tex., special tells of a Mexican Jack the Ripper, who visited the house of a Mexican woman named Sanchez last night, killed her and cut the body in pieces. After the butchery he wrote upon the wall with her blood "Fresh beef for sale". The butcher has not been captured.


Related pages:
  Carrie Brown
       Dissertations: A Tale of Two Frenchys 
       Dissertations: An Investigation into the Carrie Brown Murder 
       Dissertations: The Carrie Brown Murder Case: New Revelations 
       Dissertations: The New York Affair, Part II 
       Dissertations: The Ripper in America 
       Message Boards: Carrie Brown 
       Press Reports: Arizona Republican - 25 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Arizona Republican - 26 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Atlanta Constitution - 27 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 16 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 20 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 24 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 25 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 26 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 27 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 28 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 30 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Chilicothe Constitution - 27 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 10 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 27 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 29 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 30 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 6 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 1 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 14 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 15 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 2 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 25 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Herald Despatch - 2 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Indiana County Gazette - 29 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Manitoba Daily Free Press - 27 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Manitoba Daily Free Press - 4 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Middletown Daily Times - 13 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Middletown Daily Times - 30 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Ogden Standard - 1 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Ogden Standard - 26 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Ogden Standard - 3 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Olean Democrat - 30 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Qu'Appelle Vidette - 28 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Qu'Appelle Vidette - 7 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Reno Evening Gazette - 24 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Stevens Point Daily Journal - 2 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Trenton Times - 15 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Trenton Times - 2 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Trenton Times - 27 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Weekly Gazette and Stockman - 30 April 1891 
       Victims: Carrie Brown 
  Del Rio Ripper
       Press Reports: Woodland Democrat - 2 May 1891 
  Frenchy
       Press Reports: Arizona Republican - 19 August 1891 
       Press Reports: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier - 23 June 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Gazette and Bulletin - 11 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 17 August 1891 
       Press Reports: Indiana County Gazette - 20 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Trenton Times - 12 September 1894