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General Discussion / Re: 2024 Research
« on: March 24, 2024, 10:13:16 am »
Two articles in 2024:


 Murder By Gaslight: February 10, 2024 Article

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2024/02/east-side-story.html?sc=1707579425121#c8905609984453962599


New England Historical Society March 24, 2024 Article

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-sad-story-of-salems-carrie-brown/

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General Discussion / Re: Audio/Visual Material
« on: March 20, 2024, 08:16:28 am »
How BAD were New York Saloons in the 1800s? (Back Alley Drinking Dives)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzoxSxyiUdw&t=356s&ab_channel=FactFeast



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One of the hallway.....


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My representation of the East River Hotel with my pal, AI.


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Probably the three most sensational murders in 19th century New York City, the latter two decades before the Brown Murder, discussed by Inspector Byrnes in
his 1886, Professional Criminals of America. The 'PCA' is a very impressive book.
PDF below...15 pages.

No one was ever convicted for any of the crimes.

Helen Jewett in 1836
Mary Rogers in 1840
Benjamin Nathan in 1870.
Rogers' murder was the basis of the Edgar Allan Poe story," The Mystery of Marie Roget".

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Brooklyn Times Union
May 22, 1899
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Five Years After:  The Mystery of The Murder of Susie Martin

No one could ever accuse the New York World of not taking advantage of criminal cases.

On page 2 of this thread, I placed a couple of clippings and a front page blurb from The World back in 1894 in which that newspaper, with no real basis, presumed that the murderer of the little girl was Chinese...then possibly Italian.

These clippings come from 1899 when the case came back to life. A black criminal named William Johnson stated that another black criminal, James Billings, was her murderer.

With no further ado, this is a sampler of the days between March 22, 1899, and April 2nd of the same year.




New York World
March 22, 1899
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New York World
March 23, 1899
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New York World
March 23, 1899
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New York World
March 23, 1899
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New York Times
March 24th, 1899
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Worded incorrectly, as it should read Johnson, not Billings, as the man not being believed by the NYPD.

Page Six of the March New York World, March 24, 1899.....buried in a 'tidbit' column.





New York World
March 29, 1899
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New York Sun
March 29, 1899
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True to his nature, Billings might not have been done with burglaries and jail just yet !

New York Sun
April 2, 1899
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He had a court date on April 20th.




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Old list with some add-ons.




Unidentified Man        Pier 46 East River    Found November 16, 1893 
Unidentified Man        East River               Found November 23, 1893
Minnie Weldt              324 East 61st St. -  Lenox Hill neighborhood, East Side of Manhattan                May 30, 1894           Strangled To Death
Hattie Smith              25 Minetta Lane -    Greenwich Village neighborhood, West Side of Manhattan    November 6, 1894    Assault With Knife

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Murder theorized to have been connected to the murder of the unidentified woman also found in the East River one week earlier.

Quite a few 'drownings' in the East River...a good number were murders.
It's doubtful that the medical authorities examined the lungs of most of the deceased to see if water was present.
Body in water =  Drowned.

New York Evening World
November 24, 1893
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Colorized...











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General Discussion / Wild Goose Chase
« on: March 11, 2024, 04:55:30 pm »
 I was looking through the Old Fulton archives today and thought I was on to something.

I found this in the New York Press, published just two years before the Brown Murder. I've included the relative parts.

New York Press
January 20, 1889
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When I saw 'Miller Avenue' mentioned, the thought occurred to me that perhaps Damon did not live at 3 Madison Avenue in Cranford
at the time of the murder and only moved there afterward...after April 23, 1891, that is. IF this was true, then it would be required to
see when Damon moved in on Madison Avenue as he may not have had the stable and farm hands as has been believed.

Nina was quick to remind me ( only a half hour after I got my hopes up) that Damon was listed as the owner of the home on Madison Avenue both before and after the Brown murder and that what I thought I had found was down to another mistake made by the reporter when he wrote 'Miller' instead of Madison.
I double-checked the streets in Cranford ( 2024 and in 1889 ) and there is and neither was a Miller Avenue.  A Miln Street....but no Miller.
**** reporters >:(

On the other hand, the current-day photos of the other dwellings in Damon's name are linked to in the records ( 1891 and 1898 ) are found below.
He had a home in Brooklyn in 1891 ( New York City Directory)....and one in Manhattan Valley, ( also in the New York City Directory) just north of the Upper West Side, in 1898.

1891 Brooklyn
289 1/2th Street Brooklyn





1898 Manhattan Valley ( street and vicinity of the home)
169 West 94th Street




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Bellevue Hospital is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the United States.

Historically, Bellevue was so frequently associated with its treatment of mentally ill patients that "Bellevue" became a local** pejorative slang term for a psychiatric hospital. The hospital has since developed into a comprehensive major medical center including outpatient, specialty, and skilled nursing care, as well as emergency and inpatient services. The hospital contains a 25-story patient care facility and has an attending physician staff of 1,200 and an in-house staff of about 5,500.

Bellevue is a safety net hospital, providing healthcare for individuals regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. It handles over half a million patient visits each year.

Multiple firsts were performed at Bellevue in its early years. In 1799, it opened the first maternity ward in the United States. By 1808, the world's first ligation of the femoral artery for an aneurysm was performed there, followed by the first ligation of the innominate artery ten years later.[citation needed]

Bellevue physicians promoted the "Bone Bill" in 1854, which legalized the dissection of cadavers for anatomical studies; two years later they started to also popularize the use of the hypodermic syringe. In 1862, the Austin Flint murmur was named for Austin Flint***, a prominent Bellevue Hospital cardiologist.


**Make that 'national' since for as long as I can remember, whenever someone acted 'crazy', someone would say that so-and-so is headed for 'Bellevue'.
*** Austin Flint was the father of Austin Flint II, who was one of the prosecution's medical experts in the Ali trial.
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This is the entrance to the Hospital 124 years ago:




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Alice Sullivan's trial Testimony, transcribed by Mike Banks in 2023, is featured in the PDF below.

Alice told the Court that she had recently visited Bellevue for a medical complaint:
Q. What was the matter with you?
A. I had a bad cold, a touch of asthma.



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General Discussion / Re: 2024 Research
« on: March 07, 2024, 08:54:05 am »
On March 6th, exactly two years after I located a photo of George Damon, Nina Brown found a photo of 14 Catherine Slip, the entrance to the East River Hotel.
No known photo depicting the hotel had ever been presented publicly before.

The photo was taken either in the late 1870s or 1880s.


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General Discussion / Re: 2024 Research
« on: March 07, 2024, 08:49:52 am »
On February 23rd, I located a photo of James M. Dougherty in a legal-medical tome written by Allen Maclane Hamilton in 1900.



More on Hamilton:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_McLane_Hamilton

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