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Case File: Brown, Carrie née Montgomery (1891)
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THE EAST RIVER HOTEL MURDER
Ben Ali, the Algerian, or “Frenchy No. 1,” the supposed murderer of Carrie Brown, or “Shakespeare”, allowed himself to be interviewed yesterday. He emphatically denied having killed the woman, whom he said he did not know by name. He acknowledged having slept in the East River Hotel the night of the murder, but said that he did not see anything of Shakespeare in the hotel. The bloodstains on his underwear, he said, were received in a fight he had with a man. He denied the ownership of the knife identified by his Long Island City Prison companions as one he had in his possession at that time.
Deputy Sheriff Ashmead of Jamaica, Long Island, arrested a vagrant over there who fairly answers the description of the man who occupied the room with Shakespeare the night of the murder. He admitted being in New-York that night. Two blood-stained handkerchiefs and a Staten Island ferry ticket were found in his pockes. Inspector Byrnes was notified of the arrest.
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Advertisement for an entertainment about the “East River Hotel Murder” at the Eden Musée. This venue had multiple halls including a popular “Chamber of Horros” in the basement. It was known for a large waxworks collection, musical concerts, and a changing selection of specialty entertainments like magic lanterns and marionettes. Similar ads continued for this until May 15. A later mention in the New York Times of May 11 noted that lawyer Emanuel M. Friend, of the firm of Levy, Friend & House, representing “Frenchy No. 1”, called at the Eden Musée and protested against “the further exhibition of the wax group representing the recent murder of ‘Old Shakespeare’ at the East River Hotel’
