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Show ; "SLASHER" IS AT IRK AGAIN IN NEW YORK j SLIPS UP BEHIND WOMEN IN THE I SUBWAY. i I Slashes Coat of Unsuspecting Person, and Then Escape Unnoticed In Crowd. New York, March 18. Complaints, which are reaching tho polloe, indi-. indi-. cate that a "slasher" la again at work J in Now York. Several women have i reported that their garments haw boon ! cut in tho subway station at Forty-second Forty-second street All cases botray a striking Iroilar-Ity Iroilar-Ity which makes it appear as If tho work were being done by on man, using us-ing the same shape knife. In most instances in-stances tho garments cut have been women's coats, slashed a little to tho left of the center of tho back, about i twelve inches from the bottom. One woman's handsome coat of broadcloth was bajly mutilated In the subway vesterday morning. Two yearn eo ' '"'slasher" did similar work, and wblio detectives were put cm the case, th culprit was never captured. |