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Was Justice Served? Kindle Release October 1st, 2026
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 1, 2026, 5:31 am
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The Kindle Version is now available......
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Re: Was Justice Served? Kindle Release October 1st, 2026
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 1, 2026, 8:22 pm
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I neglected to say the following in the first post:
Pete Damgaard made numerous suggestions, pointing out errors
and contributing his skills as an editor, which led me to revise
the original
manuscript for this Kindle ( and paperback) work. I am in awe of
his talents, as anyone who has followed his track record of
contributions to
the study of the Carrie Brown murder will know. Simply put,
without Pete, the study of the case would be dramatically
different and poorer
without his input.
Thank you, Pete.
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Re: Was Justice Served? Kindle Release October 1st, 2026
DIR By: Kattrup
Date: October 2, 2026, 1:46 am
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Thank you for the kind words, Howard.
Best of luck with this book!
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Re: Was Justice Served? Kindle Release October 1st, 2026
DIR By: Michael Banks
Date: October 6, 2026, 4:39 pm
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Another high quality piece of work How. My congratulations to
yourself and Nina and a thumbs up to Mr. Damgaard (who reminds
me of Kattrup[emoji848])
As you know I tend to favour that Ali didn’t kill Carrie Brown
but you’ve confirmed the strength of the case against him.
Without the appearance of George Damon we are left with a man
who was violent to women, who knew Brown, who was in the room
opposite, was known to slip into hotels rooms where women were
and who had Brown’s blood on him. No key and Ali is going
nowhere. Like you though I really can’t see why there was such a
concerted movement to get this guy released; he was hardly
Nelson Mandela. I can’t give an explanation but I just get the
feeling that there was something ‘political’ going on in the
background.
I tend to favour, although I would only bet your house on it How
and not my own…
Option one - C.Kniclo and Brown enter room 31, he kills her and
leaves the room unlocked. Ali entered the room and came into
contact with Brown, getting her blood on him.
Various reasons, all of which you are more than familiar with. I
know that you don’t agree on this one but the crime scene to me
just doesn’t look like a guy ‘just’ killing a woman in anger or
over some issue over cash or sex. It looks to me like the crime
scene of a serial killer. The mutilation, the cross, the
wrapping of the head. It sounds like a planned fantasy. If Ali
was going to commit this type of murder (and he might have) why
would we he have chosen a women that he could be connected to
(because they had been seen together previously) and at a
location where he was known and where someone might have put a
name to him rather than just a vague description.
My next point isn’t a slam dunk but if he’d just committed that
murder (at a place where he was known) why was he arrested just
a few blocks away? It’s difficult to understand why he didn’t
get as far away from there as possible? To be honest though the
same question applies even if he just came into contact with the
body but I think that it’s more telling if he was actually the
killer.
I’m strongly of the opinion that C. Kniclo was Glenmore Man.
What are the chances of a man appearing at a hotel so close,
covered in blood and seemingly on another planet, and matching
the description given by Miniter? Again, it’s not a given but at
the very least I think that it’s points strongly to the guy
being the same man. His manner could be explained by what he’d
just done. The guy certainly wasn’t Ali though.
You are right to point out the time gap of between 2 and 3 hours
though How but if the guy was playing out some kind of disturbed
fantasy we don’t know how long this might have taken. Maybe it
took two hours or more?
You point about the smell is a strong one that I certainly can’t
refute. I have no medical knowledge but I can only question how
long after the murder Ali ‘might’ have entered the room. Might
it not have been say, 15 minutes? What would the smell have been
like? I don’t know. I realise that I sound like I’m stretching
things but might Ali just have had a poor sense of smell? I
think that we can safely assume that the ERH didn’t smell great
at the best of times…we have no air conditioning or air
freshening, poor cleaning, poor sanitation, unwashed bodies, no
deodorants, smells wafting in from outside etc. If the lighting
wasn’t great and he just walked in, saw the figure on the bed,
mightn’t he have just climbed on and immediately thought “what
the…” when he realised he’d got blood on him?
A long shot (and an unlikely one) but might Ali have gone to the
room just as Kniclo was leaving and they clashed causing a
transferral of blood?
The Thompson/Sultan story of the ‘confession’ if true would back
up the ‘Ali-in-the-room-but-not-the-killer’ theory but I have to
ask, why after he had been sentenced and locked away didn’t he
use the ‘ok I was in the room but I wasn’t the killer’ angle to
help an appeal? What did he have to lose?
As you know, I agree with you about the whole key story. It
smells fishier than Joseph Barnett’s coat!
Questions…
Why were there two interpreters, Sultan and Sperco?
Do you think it suspicious that “Clubber” Williams was involved
in the attempt to get Ali released?
Congratulations again How[emoji106]
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Re: Was Justice Served? Kindle Release October 1st, 2026
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 6, 2026, 6:07 pm
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Mike:
Thanks very much for the kind remarks. Your critique of the book
over on Amazon ( right now it's in Kindle-only) would be greatly
appreciated.
I'll break down your reply in segments...this is the first part
for now:
Another high-quality piece of work, How. My congratulations to
yourself and Nina, and a thumbs up to Mr. Damgaard (who reminds
me of Kattrup)
As you know, I tend to favour that Ali didn’t kill Carrie Brown,
but you’ve confirmed the strength of the case against him.
Without the appearance of George Damon, we are left with a man
who was violent to women, who knew Brown, who was in the room
opposite, was known to slip into hotel rooms where women were,
and who had Brown’s blood on him. No key, and Ali is going
nowhere. Like you, though, I really can’t see why there was such
a concerted movement to get this guy released; he was hardly
Nelson Mandela. I can’t give an explanation, but I just get the
feeling that there was something ‘political’ going on in the
background.
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These are four major precedents ( not the only ones) that stand
out in case history...two of them relate to the great mystery
that has baffled the two of us for a few
years now.
A. That it took a letter from an insane patient/prisoner (
Dougherty) to get a Governor ( Odell) to instruct his
subordinates ( Philbin & the D.A.'s office) to get the
party ( Damon) responsible for a high-level pardon campaign (
French Govt. ) to provide the facial features of the person
being touted as the real murderer,
some 100 days after he ( Damon ) came forward. You almost can't
make something like this up.
B. That there was such a sustained effort for a foreign-born
prisoner, the first in 1897, the second in 1899, the third in
1900, and the last in 1901, the most
in the 19th century. 48 years earlier, a black native-born
seaman named Washington Goode was executed for murder in Boston.
Abolitionists collected 24,000
names on petitions for clemency, while anywhere from 5,000 to
15,000 ( one report) names were collected on Ali's behalf, a
number that puts Ali in second place for most
names on collected petitions in that century. That would be the
most until the case of anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti in the 1920s,
both Italian-born.
C. The amount of time it took for someone to come forward with
alleged or actual exculpatory evidence: the ten-year gap from
the murder to Damon's entrance into the mix.
I believe it is the longest period ever, but I'll gladly stand
corrected if I'm wrong.
D. Finally, from 1891 to 1897...actually April 30th, 1891 to
sometime in June 1897, the French didn't move a muscle or look
in Ali's direction. They had to be
aware of the three clemency pleas to Governor Flower in
1893-1894, but they were not responsible for any of the letters
to Flower.
They didn't act when he was sent from Sing Sing to Auburn, off
to Matteawan and back to Sing Sing, or for almost four years
after he was returned to Matteawan.
When they finally got involved, Ali was still considered as
being insane. I think it's safe to say that no prisoner
diagnosed as insane ever attained a level of interest as Ali
did.
What amazes me even more than the sustained effort of the French
was their tenacity, even after being shot down by Gov. Black and
Gov. Roosevelt, the latter twice.
Three separate times with the same request, denied all three
times.
Despite these setbacks, I don't think they would have called it
quits even if Damon hadn't shown up.
You'll notice the list of possible reasons in addition to
Damon's story that I included in the book. One or more may have
played a role.
it is a little ironic that the spearhead of the pardon campaigns
wasn't even a U.S. citizen until shortly before the third
rejection in April 1900.
Ovide Robillard became a U. S. citizen on January 30, 1900.
It is entirely possible and also a little ironic...and I think
within reason....that Ali could have been paroled around April
1911. New York created a Parole Board to review the
cases of those sent to New York prisons for life or for lengthy
sentences of twenty years. Ali's twenty years would have been in
1911.
I say a little ironic because Damon could have retained his
evidence, again either alleged or real, and Ali could have still
been released. My interest in the
case would not be as it is today without George Damon. Yet,
without Damon, Ali could have been released nine years after he
eventually would be.
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Re: Was Justice Served? Kindle Release October 1st, 2026
DIR By: Michael Banks
Date: October 7, 2026, 12:18 pm
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Review on Amazon just posted How[emoji106]
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Re: Was Justice Served? Kindle Release October 1st, 2026
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 7, 2026, 3:32 pm
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Mike;
Very nice of you! Thanks!
Even if everyone and his sister disputed my position as to who
killed her, I think having a book out there with
a plausible counterpoint to the old narrative might attract
people to participate here. I don't mind if others
dispute it...fact is, I prefer it that way. At the least, it
might stimulate, and at best, it might encourage action.
God knows, documentaries and programs broadcast in the past are
absolute shit. It's difficult attracting
people to this case.
I'll get back to some of the questions you presented earlier
tomorrow.
I will leave you now, Don Corleone, with a photo of Inspector
Byrnes and Williams together in 1890.
Williams attempting to insinuate himself with two letters in
1901 and as far back as 1897 ( signed a petition to Governor
Black) will probably
remain one of the mysteries in this case that will go
unanswered......unless Pete figures it out. ;D
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