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Case File: Brown, Carrie née Montgomery (1891)
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"FRENCHY" WAS THE MURDERER
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SO SAYS THE CORONER'S JURY IN THE
CARRIE BROWN INQUEST
The inquest in the case of Carrie Brown, alias “Shakespeare,” who was murdered at the East River Hotel on the night of April 23, was concluded yesterday, and the jury, after fifteen minutes’ deliberation, decided that the Algerian, Ameer Ben Ali, alias “Frenchy,” was the slayer of the woman. Dr. Cyrus Edson of the Health Department, Housekeeper Mary Miniter of the East River Hotel, Samuel Shine, the night bartender; Mary Ann Lopez, Alice Sullivan, Mary Harrington, and others relted, under oath, the stories already told by them to the police and published in the newspapers, and their evidence was mainly to the effect that “Frenchy” was last seen in Carrie Brown’s company, was a desperate character, and carried a knife like that foudn under her dead body.
Detective Sergeant John Connor of the Brooklyn Central Office squad testified that he arrested the prisoner Jan. 7 last for stealing $182 worth of property from George Franke, 73 Hudson Avenue, Brooklyn. When searched at the station house a murderous knife was found on his person.
On the rendering of the verdict Ameer Ben Ali was committed to the Tombs for the action of the Grand Jury. A mob of 500 persons in front of the Coroners’ office hooted and jeered as he was led from the building, and ran after the street car which conveyed him to prison.
