Carrie Brown : Murder In The East River Hotel

D'Abzac's home address, from the 1890 NY Directory:

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Noticed the NY public Library has a letter he wrote 1890 online https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e27318a0-b0e0-0133-8e28-00505686d14e?canvasIndex=0
Not relevant to anything

Updated January 25, 2026
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Titles of the 31 episodes...in the links in the previous post.

Twenty-nine of the following videos are New York related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFMVmBhqOTQ&list=PLLSSHJuYZhj6UwyndGFjAEssjC0z4xXU_

There is one video on Indiana slums, one on Philadelphia, three
on Washington, D.C. one on Los Angeles, and two on Boston, in addition to the New York videos.

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Two related videos in this link are New York-related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2CVZfNiBck&list=PLLSSHJuYZhj7L8CqIIm4UlEniX1Th2ipu



1-Dangerous 'Gangs of New York' 1800s Slums (Battles, Riots and Crime)
Fact Feast

2-How BAD was a Night in an 1800s New York Flophouse? (Filthy Underground Lodging Houses)
Fact Feast

3-Survival in New York's 1800s Slums – Lives of the Tenement Poor
Fact Feast

4-Gambling with Your Life in New York's 1800s Slums (The Numbers Racket and Poverty)
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5-How BAD were New York Saloons in the 1800s? (Back Alley Drinking Dives)
Fact Feast

6-The Horror of Gotham Court – New York's Notorious 1800s Slum Tenement
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7-New York's FIVE POINTS SLUM Beer Dives - 1800s Underground Crime
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8-The Brutal Life of an 1800s New York 'Dead Beat' (Street Life in the Slums of Manhattan)
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9-The Unimaginable Filth in 1800s New York's Dirtiest Slum (Rag Pickers and Garbage Dumps)
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10-New York Tenement Slums (From American Dream to Living Nightmare)
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11-Survival in New York's brutal FIVE POINTS Slum (The Bend on Mulberry Street)
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12-New York Cellar Prisoners (Hell Holes of the Five Points Slum)
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13-Slumming it in the Tenements (American Slum Life)
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14-The Battle for New York's Slums (Immigration and Conflict in 19th Century Tenements)
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15-The White Death (Slum Life in America)
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16-New York's Brutal Back Alley Slums (Double Alley in the 1800s)
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17-A Horrific Night in a Filthy 1800s New York Flophouse (Lodging Houses for the Poor)
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18-New York's Slums of Shadow (Hell under Brooklyn Bridge in the 1800s)
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19-Broke in 1800s Brooklyn (New York) Battle to Survive on Streets
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20-Slum Kids of New York (Life on the Streets in the 1800s)
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21-New York's 1800s EVIL Dance Saloons (Dirty Dancing in the Slums)
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22-Survival in New York's BRUTAL 1800s Bohemian Slums (The Tenements of No Escape)
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23-The NIGHTMARE of 1800s New York Boarding Houses (Dangerous People and Terrible Food)
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24-Food of Poverty in 1800s New York - What the Poor Ate to Survive
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25-New York's 1800s Criminals Unmasked (The Gilded Age of Rogues)
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26-New York's BRUTAL Tombs Prison - 1800s Squalor and Scandal
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27-How BAD was a Saloon in New York's 1800s Five Points Slum?
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28-Dark Secrets of 1800s New York - Mysterious Slums and Hidden Lives
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29-Labyrinths of the Lost: How People Disappeared in New York's Old Tenements

30-What Did 1800 New Yorkers Eat To Survive The Slums?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLeo5tXYQTE&list=PLLSSHJuYZhj6UwyndGFjAEssjC0z4xXU_&index=31

31-  Forgotten Crimes of 1800s New York - Sneakers, Dampers, Blowers and Bursters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxrLRvhU6jo

Ok, thanks.
Thought they were the same because of the mention of another man, Galvin, doing 20 years, in both articles.
 
Guess Mrs Sullivan will remain elusive, doesn’t seem to be any way to track her down for the time being.

Some further crimes:

The Sun, Feb 8, 1875

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Tribune, july 13 1884

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Nice stuff, Pete....John Leonard was, allegedly, 300 pounds.

He was also, the article mentions, German.

How many children named Alice were born in White Plains NY in 1851-1855?

That's one avenue to pursue, but then again, was she even born in the U.S?
We'd likely have to go to Westchester to examine their county archives. Without
her true surname, we might wind up with a couple or more Alices born during the years
between 1851 and 1855.

Population of Westchester County in 1850 was 58,000 and change. There were approximately 2,000 people in White Plains, at that time.


When she said she had  'frequented the dives since her husband's death', that was a lie.
She was in prison before he died, and you know that that larceny rap wasn't her first rodeo.

She certainly wasn't younger than Miniter.  Lopez was 36 or 37. Corcoran was younger than her ( around 25).
Healy and English didn't testify at the Inquest.....which leaves Harrington, who did.
Sullivan was also made fun of for a few prominent hairs on her chin.