Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brickhouse, Mamie November 19, 1896
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Norfolk Landmark November 19 & 21, 1896
Mamie Brickhouse, Who Shot Herself Sunday Afternoon, Also Dead

The circumstances of the suicide of Mamie Brickhouse are well known. She was an 
inmate of a house in Washington street and last Sunday afternoon, because R. J. 
Powers, an engineer on the tramp steamer Grand Duchess, refused to resign his 
position and live with her, she shot herself in the abdomen. She acknowledged at 
the time that she attempted to kill herself, and Powers, who was arrested at the 
time, he being the only person in the woman’s room when the shooting occurred, 
was bailed in the sum of $100 for his appearance here in January.
The real name of Mamie Brickhouse is Blanche Davis, and her home is in 
Crisfield, Washington county, N.C., where she now has a brother living. He has 
been telegraphed for and is expected here to take charge of his sister’s 
remains.

The body of Mamie Brickhouse, the suicide, and that of Alvin E. Ellis, the 
eighteen-year-old marine sailor, which was found floating in the river Thursday, 
have both been buried by the city.


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