Jackson, Mary Jane (b. 1836)

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Jackson, Mary Jane (b. 1836)

American murderer. Name variations: known as Bricktop. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1836.

Turned to prostitution at 14; became one of toughest women in New Orleans' French Quarter, known for beating and stabbing (sometimes to death) men who angered her; opened her own brothel in Dauphine Street, where she worked with Delia Swift (known as Bridget Fury), Ellen Collins and America Williams; stabbed lover John Miller to death (Dec 5, 1861); released from prison by military governor of Louisiana, General George Shepley, who freed all the felons (1862), then disappeared.

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