Carrie Brown : Murder In The East River Hotel

Arrests made in Cranford related to the Rahway murder.

The two ladies in this article weren't 'those kind of girls' because Cranford wasn't 'that kind of town'.

Monmouth (NJ ) Inquirer
March 31, 1887
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A couple of other items related to the Lingo Trial and Dr. Formad

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 24, 1892
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Over on JTR Forums.Com, a fellow named Andrew Gable posted some material related to the atrocious murder of Susie Martin in Manhattan in 1894.

https://www.jtrforums.com/forum/other-victims/605749-the-murder-of-susie-martin-1894-nyc

Andy is of the opinion that there was a measure of racism in how the case was handled : A Chinese man was arrested but eventually released by Supt.(formerly Inspector) Thomas Byrnes. A mentally challenged man stated he saw the Chinese man with the victim, but after scrutiny, Byrnes released him and in the near future a black man suggested as the killer.

IF there was any racism in this case....it didn't emanate from the police. It came from the press.

This is one headline from March 21st....the day after the murder was announced.  Considering the uproar over the murder, this was a classic example of Joe Pulitzer and Co. going all out for an increased readership
by means of an awfully dangerous and unsubstantiated suggestion.  It was at the beginning of the heated Newspaper War or Circulation War between Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism





There was also focus on men of Italian descent, slaughter house workers, and brewers.

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No one was ever charged with Susie's murder.  Her skull was found a few years later in a tenement.  Her father went off the deep end and as a result, the parents had to give their children to a charity home.  The mother and father left the area and were never heard from again.  A case of terrible exponential damage to poor Susie's survivors.


This murder makes the Brown Murder look like a smack on the fanny in comparison.  It immediately makes you think of Washingon D. C. born but Brooklyn based monster Albert Fish, who also boiled a child

The more I read about Byrnes and his handling of Gilded Age crime, the more I admire him and regret being less than objective about his career in the past.

One thing that has always bothered me about people who study cases of serial murder, specifically in America, is that far too often H. H. Holmes will be 'credited' with being the first American serial killer.   It's wrong and one person who kept at it a while back is delusional and only out for a buck.   Franklin Evans and Jesse Pomeroy, for instance, were in operation 17 years before Holmes' career began.
https://www.jtrforums.com/forum/american-experience/601475-franklin-b-evans-american-serial-killer-whose-career-began-in-1850

These were the first documented serial killers in the good old US of A : The Harpe Brothers
I should also mention the Harpe Brothers  career fizzled out over 8 decades before Holmes' career began.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpe_brothers

Moving on....

This is a 7,000 word article on the Servant Girl Annihilator, named as such by short story author, O. Henry

I have left it in PDF format. The story was front page and second page of the the New Year's Day World
I have it on good authority ( Skip Hollandsworth, author of the book, The Midnight Assassin) that it was not what the civic leaders of Austin wanted to see written about their city.

The coverage of these murders should have dwarfed the coverage afforded to other crimes...one being the murder of Carrie Brown, IMO.
But that tenuous link to the Whitechapel Murders made it more well known than the Austin murders.  The location of the crime ( New York as opposed to Austin) and that a man was charged for the murders( Ali ) also played a factor in the amount of coverage.  Although the Brown Murder coverage lasted only 10 weeks in 1891, people grew up on the East Coast without ever hearing of the Austin murders. 

I went to high school in Texas ( 1969-1972), 60 miles away from Austin, and had to wait until I moved back to Philadelphia before I heard about them in the late 1980's.

New York World
January 1, 1886
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Here's a terrible murder that occurred in Greenwich Village.....this time a black female.

The Tennessean
Nashville
April 1, 1895
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6th Ave. and Waverly Place in 1923 :



6th Avenue and Waverly Place in 2023 :

This report makes the suggestion that it might have been possible that Carl Feigenbaum murdered Carrie Brown.  See bottom of article.
Four years earlier the same suggestion was made that Henry Dowd ( Jack The Slasher) may have murdered Brown.
Feigenbaum's lawyer was a **** addict who committed suicide on a park bench and made a real ass of himself after his client's trial.


Hazleton Sentinel
May 9, 1896
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 Another woman murdered in Manhattan....this time on the West Side ( SOHO ) at 143 Thompson Street.

Alice Walsh


Updated NYC Murder Map


Nebraska State Journal
April 22, 1895
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