Carrie Brown : Murder In The East River Hotel

15. The defense protested mightily against Francis Wellman bringing up some of Ali's past within his opening remarks.
 Because of this, Judge Smyth would warn the defense about commenting on some of the witnesses' criminal past that
had nothing to do with the case at hand when they eventually took the witness stand.

Hey, I gotta redeem myself somehow, after my poor showing in the Minute Mysteries!


You've got that right, mister.

Pete:

    This was in the June 29th NY Evening World article that I posted at the beginning of the thread.



   The 7 here were:
   1. Miniter
   2. Carter...written as Cortes.....apparently Clip was in The Tombs for eight weeks too!
   3. Healy
   4. Lopez
   5. Sullivan
   6. English
   7. Briscoe.....she WAS one of the 7 women.....

   ....meaning that Mary Harrington was either overlooked or brought in separately.
  Corcoran and McGovern were never jailed.

   Thanks for bringing up Briscoe, otherwise I might not have double checked.

  Carter's name wasn't on the list of witnesses, either.

Pete:
 
 I didn't add Briscoe for two reasons. One, being that her name does not appear on the list of witnesses.
Two, she was not called to testify. It didn't seem to make sense that they would keep her in The Tombs
for two months if the prosecution didn't intend on having her testify ( Probably in relation to the summer
 of 1890 incident at Harrington's). All of the other women on the list....the known six, plus Corcoran and
McGovern, did testify and did have their names on the list of witnesses. All, with the possible exception
of McGovern, and definite exception of Healy, testified at the Inquest.

Let me go back looking through the trial transcript. You may be right about Briscoe.

At the aborted Coroner's Inquest of April 30th, Briscoe, along with Lizzie Carter, Mary Reilly, Florence May, were said to have
been present.


UPDATE:
 Pete.. according to the May 11th Evening World, Briscoe was in The Tombs ( so was Carter). I'm going to look
once again at the trial transcript.

Three officers led seven female witnesses, taking the perp walk, from The Tombs
to Court......

Who was the 7th woman?

Definites:
1. Miniter
2. Harrington
3. Healy
4. English
5. Lopez
6. Sullivan

List of the 39 witnesses....8 were women.

https://carriebrown.createaforum.com/general-discussion/complete-set-of-witnesses-inquest-trial/msg4413/#msg4413

New York Evening World
June 29, 1891
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Catherine McGovern, whose name does not appear in the New York or Brooklyn papers in connection to the case or anything else
during 1891, does appear in newspapers from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in June. The clippings, all identical, state
that the June 29th testimony in court was merely a repetition of the Coroner's Inquest testimony. However, unless the transcriber
decided not to write down anything McGovern may have said at the Coroner's Inquest, her trial testimony was one of the statements
said to have been one of the repetitions.

I don't believe she was the 7th woman.

....which leaves us with Corcoran.

I believe that Corcoran, while not actually imprisoned in the Tombs like the other women, rendezvoused with the women
who had been sent to The Tombs, and from there they were all escorted to court.
Corcoran said she worked at the Hotel while testifying at the trial ( she, by the way, had black hair...she wasn't one of the numerous redheads in court)
All six of the women listed earlier, including Ali, were sent from Oak Street to The Tombs on May 2nd.

I don't think McGovern associated with any of the other women.

On a strange note, Corcoran's full name does not appear in any local newspapers in April or May of 1891....but the name Annie Corcoran does.
Her actual name appeared in late June.