Carrie Brown : Murder In The East River Hotel
General Category => Sketches & Photographs => Topic started by: Howard Brown on September 19, 2022, 03:02:45 pm
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As noted, he was Ali's commanding officer approx. twenty years before the Hotel Murder
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George & Anna Damon with John R. Lee....three people who, according to the prevailing theory. saw the key left by the Farmhand in Cranford, NJ( 3 Madison Avenue).
Nina Brown located Anna Damon's photo in early 2022....and yours truly found George's on March 6, 2022
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Damon home, circa 1900
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Where the Ali Trial took place.... June 26-July 3, 1891
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Many thanks to Member Jose Oranto for sharing these two gravesite photos where Carrie Brown is interred.
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One more from Jose Oranto.
Headstone in front of where Brown is buried.
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New York Evening World
April 23, 1902
( Ironically eleven years to the day from Carrie Brown's fatal visit to the East River Hotel)
Did George Damon assist in releasing an innocent man or was Damon partly responsible for the release of a killer ?
Ameer Ben Ali
Photo found by Nina Brown in 2020
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Undated but contemporary photograph of the Oak & Oliver Street intersection, north of Water Street
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Undated, contemporary map of the Fourth Ward ( prior to the murder)
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Standing on South Street, one block south of Water, looking up Catherine Slip ( circa 1920's). Arrow designates where the Hotel would be located
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Location of hotel would be in the center of the first photo ( circa 1920's)
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Hotel location at the rear of the car in the photo on the right ( circa 1920's)
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Catherine Slip near Cherry Street
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Many, if not nearly all, of these buildings were extant in 1891
2-4 Catherine Slip
6 Catherine Slip
8 Catherine Slip
9 Catherine Slip
11 Catherine Slip
16 Catherine Slip ( location of hotel )
20 Catherine Slip
All circa 1941
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Excise license for 13 Catherine Slip...directly across the street from the Hotel.
The Hotel couldn't get a license for its numerous violations.
The name to whom this was issued is Michael but I can't figure out the surname.
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According to the New York source I used, the house on the far right is 41 Oliver.
I believe the house behind the car with the overhang is 49 Oliver, which was Mary Harrington's place in April 1891.
Better shot in the photo at bottom....with the window at the base of the building....all from the early 1940's or late 1930's.
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Oak Street Police Station : 9 Oak Street ( early 20th Century) and one from the 1930's-1940's
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From the Jack Falat Collection...
Photo of a John R. Lee paving crew at work in Paterson, N.J.
Date unknown, circa 1900
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Edwin Borchard, author of the 1932 book, Convicting The Innocent.
His article on the presumed innocence of Ameer Ben Ali, based on his 1902 release, may not have been true.
A case where he was definitely wrong :
In 1911, seven year old Annie Lemberger was killed in Madison Wisconsin. This became the second most written of child homicide in 20th century America. Only the Lindbergh kidnapping generated more interest.
Annie was either killed by her father in a drunken rage or by her neighbor John A, (Dogskin) Johnson, a **** and all round ne'er do well. Mr. Johnson was convicted but released after ten years when the blame was shifted to her father.
Johnson was among Edwin Borchard's original innocents but 80 years later his guilt was proven definitively in a book called "Crime of Magnitude."
After correspondence with the on going Innocence Project, they agreed to strike Mr. Johnson's name from the innocent.
PDF of the book
https://archive.org/details/convictinginnoce0000borc
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The Hotel Metropole....147 West 43rd Street
Emile Sultan, who served as an interpreter in the case, worked here as a cigar vendor. Actor William Thompson heard the details said to have been shared by Ali with Sultan regarding
Ali going into Room 31 but only to burgle or rummage through the death room and shared them with a Buffalo newspaper in 1902. No other newspaper contained the story.
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Screen shot of a scrapbook which was shown within the 2013 Mysteries At The Museum program, Jack The Ripper In New York.
It isn't an official dossier but just a scrapbook which I believe was once in the possession of a prosecution attorney. Site member Bob Anderson is featured on that program.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-_7jEmKRE8&ab_channel=CarrieBrown.Net
Full episode : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H7rmOBR1lQ&ab_channel=CarrieBrown.Net
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The NY World, The NY Tribune, and The New York Times buildings, Park Row, Manhattan
The fellow who shared this ink originally listed the NY Sun along with the other three outfits, but the NY Sun was on Nassau Street.
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Photo by Jacob Riis ( circa 1890 )....Lower East Side saloon
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Jacob Riis' office was located at 301 Mulberry Street....directly across the street from 300 Mulberry, Inspector Byrnes' HQ.
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Technically, not a photograph.....
Coroner Inquest May 1891
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Unrelated for the most part to the Brown Murder but a site which deserves a look.
New York City has a long and sprawling history, but looking at the city today, it's hard to tell what it looked like in the past. Luckily, an enterprising coder has solved that problem by creating a Google Street View map for New York City for the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library to plot all the old photos from the Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection on an interactive map.
The project, called OldNYC, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps. The collection contains over 80,000 original photographs.
Visit the OldNYC site here, or look below for some of the best photos we saw from the late 1800s and early 1900s, marked with their locations in the city.
https://www.oldnyc.org/
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Vintage New York : Photos From The 1870s To The 1910s
https://www.history101.nyc/new-york-city-in-the-1870s
At the bottom of each page is a link to the subsequent decade.
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Greetings from Sing Sing Prison
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To the left, Jersey City....body of water is the Hudson River....and the street at right is West Street, close to the pier that took one to New Jersey.
From 1910
Sign at lower right advertising for Bull Durham, a cigarette tobacco and cigarette brand.
One thing I've noticed having been in all five of the major East Coast cities ( NYC, Philly, Boston, Baltimore and Washington) is that of the five, New York has a number of remarkably wide streets. Almost as if it was envisioned that the city would grow to the size it eventually would.
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With the major influx of immigration, and report of land sharks** taking advantage of newly arrived immigrants, in 1846, NYC Board of Aldermen set up a commission to investigate.
A permanent Commission of Immigration was set up by NYS legislature in 1847.
Temporary relief was provided to those that needed it and Commission eventually led to the creation of the Castle Garden Immigration Center. Which opened in 1855.
For the next 35 years over 8 million immigrants entered the US through Castle Garden.
Photo circa 1870 LOC
** Land sharks, as might have been surmised, were scoundrels who swindled sailors as soon as they stood on US shores ( How about that alliteration ? ).
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Posted on the 'Carrie Brown' earlier.....a photo of the dining area on Blackwell's Island, where Brown had just been released a few days before she was murdered.
Dated 1890's
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Photo of Dr. William T. Jenkins, 1855-1921. Performed autopsy on Carrie Brown
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According to George Damon, he and an employee went to the bar in the East River Hotel and had a snort and cigar.
The ERH wasn't the bar in these photos, it was considered alongside a couple of other Water Street dives ( The Glass House next door at 18
Catherine Slip ) as one of the worst...maybe even the worst.
Still think Damon would even consider drinking in one of these joints ?
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1890 police report regarding 'Frank Sherlick''s ( one of Ali's phony names) assault on 'Mary Eigan' ( one of Mary Ann Lopez's phony names).
The police officer's name was Eugene Meyers. Meyers testified at the Coroner's Inquest.
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And now a word from our sponsor.....and favorite cigar vendor, Emile Sultan of the Hotel Metropole, 42nd-43rd Streets !
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The Courthouse.....
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The envelope which contained Governor Voorhees' letter of introduction sent to Governor Odell.
Geez, Louise....that looks like some pretty cheap stationery.
From 1901
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Oak Street Station...Ali, Miniter, Lopez, all the players passed through those doors.
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Photo of Mullen's Alley, right off Cherry Street, close to where Carrie Brown had once stayed.
Photo taken by Jacob Riis in 1888.
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From a documentary, "Jack The Ripper In America"( Finding Jack The Ripper, 2011 )
A couple of videos we have on our You Tube channel depict incidents from the murder, but this one strikes me as being the best.
Carrie Brown and 'C.Kniclo' going up the stairs to Room 31.
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