Teresa Susan Donohue (May 1869 – April 1932), better known as Tessie Wall was an American madam who owned and operated brothels in San Francisco, California, from 1898 to 1917. She was married to gambler and political boss Frank Daroux, whom she attempted to kill in 1917 as he sought to divorce her.

Have you heard the story of Tessie Wall, one of San Francisco’s most famous madams of the 20th century? Despite her shortcomings (like murdering her second husband Frank Daroux in a fit of passion back in 1917), Tessie Wall managed to win the hearts of San Francisco’s residents and become one of the pioneering female entrepreneurs of the 1900s.

Teresa Susan Donohue, better known as Tessie Wall was an American madam who owned and operated brothels in San Francisco, California from 1898 to 1917.

2012年3月4日 · Tessie Wall was one of the most famous characters in San Francisco a century ago. She had married her paramour, Frank Daroux, a noted gambler and political fixer, in 1912....

2010年7月22日 · Teresa Susan Donohue (May 1869- April 1932), better known as Tessie Wall was an American madam who owned and operated brothels in San Francisco, California from 1898 to 1917. She was married to gambler and political boss Frank Daroux, whom she attempted to kill in 1917 as he sought to divorce her.

Teresa Susan Donohue (May 1869 – April 1932), better known as Tessie Wall was an American madam who owned and operated brothels in San Francisco, California, from 1898 to 1917. She was married to gambler and political boss Frank Daroux, whom she attempted to kill in 1917 as he sought to divorce her.

2009年12月29日 · That is a direct quote from Tessie Wall, a San Francisco madam around the turn of the century. Wall uttered the words on Minna Street after having twice shot her unfaithful lover, Frankie...

Tessie Wall was one of the Barbary Coast’s most popular madams. Since entering the business in 1898, her life had been mired in controversy. Born on May 26, 1869, she was one of ten children. Her mother, who died at the age of forty-four, named her chubby, ash-blond daughter Teresa Susan Donahue.

Fabulous Tessie Wall kept her red plush and gilt bagnio on the southwest corner of Powell and O’Farrell—Tessie Wall, who reigned before Prohibition as “Queen of the Tenderloin,” whose answer to her husband, gambler Frank Daroux, when he asked her to move to a suburban home in San Mateo is still quoted: “San Mateo!

2017年8月25日 · Tessie Wall was one of the Barbary Coast’s most popular madams. Since entering the business in 1898 her life had been mired in controversy. Born on May 26, 1869, she was one of ten children. Her mother, who died when she was forty-four, named her chubby, ash-blond daughter Teresa Susan Donahue.