Carrie Brown : Murder In The East River Hotel

The Timeline : April 1891


   On April 13th, Ali was released from Queens County Jail ( vagrancy) having been jailed on March 14th for the offense.
   On April 16th, Carrie Brown was released from Blackwell's Island ( drunkenness).
   On the night of April 20th, a Monday, Ameer Ben Ali and Carrie Brown quite possibly spent the night at the East River Hotel, if the man
   that Mary Brennan had referred to as being named 'George' who Brennan stated that Brown was with at Barney Wintermeyer's at 15 Bowery
   saloon was, in reality, Ameer Ben Ali.  Ali would use the alias of George Frank in addition to several other false names he'd used when
   arrested. ( i.e. 'Frank Sherlicka' in September 1890 when charged for assaulting Mary Ann Lopez).
   On the night of April 21st, a Tuesday, Ali spent the night at the ERH and was around on the morning of the 22nd
   On the night of April 22nd, a Wednesday, Ali spent the night at the Hotel according to the testimony of Eddie Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald issuing
   the key to Ali.
   On the morning of April 23rd, a Thursday, Ali went to Mary Harrington's house at 49 Oliver Street and gave fifty cents to Alice
   Sullivan for sex.
   On the afternoon of April 23rd, Alice Sullivan treats Carrie Brown to lunch at a saloon/store on Water Street at 4:30 p.m., her last meal
   while alive.
   On the night of April 23rd, Alice Sullivan saw Brown and Ali conversing on the corner of Oak & Oliver Street.
   On the night of April 23rd, between 10:00 and 10:30 p.m, Carrie Brown and a man enter the hotel. The man gives Mary Miniter a dollar
   receives fifty cents change and is given the key to Room 31, as well as a ten-cent pint of ale which Brown asked for
   On the night of of April 23rd, at 11:00 p.m.,Ali paid 25 pennies for a room at the East River Hotel being issued a key, once again, by
   Eddie Fitzgerald to Room 33.
.  On April 23rd or early on the 24th, Carrie Brown is murdered in Room 31 and subsequently found that day at approximately 10 a.m.
   On April 24th, at 2:00 a.m., a man with blood marks on his person enters the Glenmore Hotel in Chatham Square and whose description
   matches to a great extent that would be given to authorities by Mary Miniter.
   On April 24th, at 5:00-5:15 a.m., Ali is seen leaving the hotel through the door to Water Street by Eddie Fitzgerald.
   On April 24th, at approx. 10:00 a.m., her corpse is found by housekeeper Mary Corcoran and utility man Eddie Fitzgerald.
   On April 24th, minutes after the discovery of Brown's body, hotel proprietor James Jennings rushes in the Oak Street Police Station
    and informs them that there had been a murder in the hotel.
   On April 24th, at 8:120 p.m.,Ameer Ben Ali Ali is picked up by Officer Adam Lang, accompanied by Mary Ann Lopez, three blocks
   from the hotel at the intersection of James Slip & Water Street, and taken to the Oak Street Station.
   On April 25th, Police verify that the victim's name was Carrie Brown.
   Inspector Byrnes busy interrogating detainees until 2 A.M. at police headquarters, April 25th
   On April 25th, Adolph Kallenberg is arrested in Chatham Square early in the morning and eventually released.
   On April 25th, the NY Evening World contains a reference to coalheaver William Mannix who stated that Ali had tried to
   enter his apartment earlier in the week ( the morning of the 22nd) while the former's wife was alone and that Mannix had
   seen him sprawled in the hallway of the fifth floor on April 23rd..
   On April 26th, it's reported by Mary Harrington that she had seen the man ( Frenchy 2) that the police were looking for on
   Oliver Street a day earlier. 
   On April 26th, Detective McNaught and another officer accompany Ali to Jamaica, Queens, on a wild goose chase
   looking for the hotel and the man Ali claimed to have worked for on April 23rd.
   On April 27th, Mary Miniter accompanied the police to Brooklyn in order to view Nels Hansen and Henry Weissmann
   at different times with different police officers.
   On April 27th, Detective William Frink removed material from under Ali's fingernails and preserves them in individual envelopes.
   On April 28th, plans are made to take Carrie Brown's body to Potter's Field ( Hart's Island) for burial. However, she is
   subsequently taken to Salem, Massachusetts by a daughter for final interment.
   On April 29th, Arbie La Bruckman was arrested on Sixth Street in Jersey City, N.J. He has an iron-clad alibi for the night in question.
   At 2:30 PM on the same day, La Bruckman is released.
    By April  29th, more than three dozen men had been picked up and released.
   On April 30th, Inspector Byrnes holds a press conference and names Ali as the perpetrator.

Good idea How. It’s useful to have the timeline laid out.

Bump up....the original timeline for April has been updated with new events and new days.
This is reflected in the first post on the thread.