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First Reference To Carrie Brown As "Old Shakespeare"
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: April 23, 2026, 5:22 pm
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These two papers, the New York Evening World and the Boston
Globe, referred to Carrie Brown by
the nickname 'Shakespeare' before they either knew her name or
waited in order to verify her name.
The two papers included the term 'Old' separately from
"Shakespeare' on the 24th.
Boston Globe, April 24th edition
NY Evening World Extra 2:00 Clock Edition
Old "Shakespeare"
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Boston Globe, April 25th edition
NY Evening World, April 25th, Last Edition
"Old Shakespeare"
This is the Boston Globe from the 24th. As stated, the next day,
she would be referred to as 'Old Shakespeare', a media creation.
Boston Globe
April 24, 1891
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Re: First Reference To Carrie Brown As "Old
Shakespeare"
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: August 2, 2026, 6:03 am
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"Shakespeare"
New York Evening World
April 24th, 1891
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The old woman was sober at the time, but Mary Healey, who had
left her some time previously, was very drunk when she went
away.
The housekeeper said she knew both women only as speaking
acquaintances. They frequented a little grocery store in Water
Street,
known as George's place, with many other abandoned women.
The Healey woman was still in an inebriated condition when the
police found her this morning.
She was hysterical and seemed to be on the verge of the horrors,
and no information could be obtained from her except that the
old woman's name was Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare and Old "Shakespeare"
Boston Globe
April 24th, 1891
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Bartender Fitzgerald of the Fourth Ward Hotel, who was the last
to see the old woman and her companion, said that she was known
in that locality by the name of Shakespeare. She came to the
bar-room early in the evening, when she was accompanied by
another woman named Mamie Healey, also a disreputable character
of that neighborhood.
They sat together drinking beer for some time. Old "Shakespeare"
sat for a while and talked with Mary Minotar, the assistant
housekeeper of the hotel, and then she, too, went out.
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"Old Shakespeare"
New York Evening World
April 25, 1891
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It is said that the man William Bekle is a sailor, and was
arrested on board of one of the vessels lying along South
Street. He was seen with "Old Shakespeare" within the past two
or three days.
Francis or "Frenchy" is a well-known character in the
neighborhood, and is said to be a desperate man. He is described
by Bartender Thompson, of the East River Hotel, as a dark,
swarthy-skinned man of medium height, and is supposed to be half
negro and half Spaniard. He came from Cuba, and has recently
occupied rooms at the "hotel" on several occasions with
different women of the most abandoned class. He was there on
Wednesday night, and on Thursday night had a room alone on the
top floor, adjoining the one occupied by "Old Shakespeare" and
the supposed "Jack the Ripper."
Carrie Brown. Her identity is established. Inspector Byrnes had
the tintype with her photograph on the 25th, according to the
Boston Globe
on April 26th, reporting on the previous day's events.
New York Evening World and the Boston Globe
April 25, 1891
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No crime which has been committed in this city for years has
stirred the Police Department to such tremendous
activity as the horrible butchery of Carrie Brown, alias "Old
Shakespeare," by "Jack the Ripper," or his double, at the East
River Hotel.
The Globe referred to her as "Shakespeare" and Old "Shakespeare"
on the 25th.
Mary Healey, who drank with her on the night of the 23rd,
appears be the original source for Carrie being referred to as
'Shakespeare'.
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