Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beatty, Jennie February 4, 1887
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Norfolk Landmark February 5, 1887
DEAD IN A BAR ROOM.
“As You Live so shall You Die.” - A Locally Notorious Character Drops Dead.
The career of a notorious member of the demi monde came to an untimely end at 
4:30 o’clock last evening in the bar room at No. 39 Church street, kept by James 
Meagher. The deceased was known as “Irish Jennie,” and her real name is supposed 
to have been Jennie Beatty. She was about 46 years of age, born in Ireland and 
came to this country in 1856. She was the terror of her dissolute companions, 
being noted for bloodthirstiness and treachery, and had been twice an inmate of 
the penitentiary — once for murder, and on another occasion for cutting and 
dangerously wounding another woman. The dead woman effected her escape from the 
penitentiary while serving her first sentence, her companion in the escape being 
the notorious Mme. Rousell. It is stated that during her unholy career this 
woman killed three of her sex and made desperate attempts on the lives of three 
others. She was less than seven months at liberty after her escape when she was 
rearrested, and subsequently sentenced to ten years imprisonment for 
treacherously stabbing a denizen of a brothel. The first murder by the deceased 
was the shooting through the brain from a window of a woman who was passing on 
the street below her. Jennie Beatty entered the bar room yesterday to indulge in 
her favorite liquor, whiskey, and remarked to the bartender that she was not 
feeling well. She said she would sit down a moment, but, the room being well 
filled by colored people, she went to an inner room. In about twenty minutes 
afterward someone noticed her absence and going to the room found the woman in 
her death struggles. She died in a few moments and before medical assistance 
could be summoned. Dr. E. V. Newton held an inquest on the remains last evening 
and after hearing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of death from 
natural causes. It was only a day or two ago that the deceased was a prisoner in 
the Police Court charged with theft. The deceased died in a Saloon frequented by 
colored people and the lower classes of whites. She lived a Christless life, she 
died a Christless death, she was wrapped in a Christless shroud and laid in a 
Christless grave. She died as she had lived. 


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