Harry Allen

Family and early life Allen was born in Indiana as Nell Pickerell to Robert P. Pickerell and Jennie Gordon. The Pickerell family moved to the North End area of Seattle around 1894. He was an aspiring prize fighter and a skilled boxer.

Suicides of his love interests Allen was known to be a notorious ladies' man who pursued multiple women at a time, including married women. Of the many women he sought, or who sought him, four are reported to have died by suicide. After Quappe's suicide, newspapers reported that Allen's jailers said he joked with them about having fooled Quappe about his sex. When he was released, on Christmas Day Quappe confronted him about his dating another young woman, Mabel Lacke. The two fought and Quappe snatched away Allen's watch-chain which contained a locket with a photograph of Lacke. Quappe was so angry as to threaten Allen's life and to threaten to kill herself. Later that day, she was found to have ingested carbolic acid she purchased from a pharmacy and passed away that evening. The Seattle Star reported the cause of her distress as the jealousy that she felt upon learning of Allen's duplicitousness, but other newspapers in the region implied or stated that it was also due to Allen's assigned sex at birth. A report by a Walla Walla paper, The Evening Statesman, erroneously attributed the story of Quappe's death to Walters's name, but provides the occasion of her death as March 1902. Waldron was found lying bloody in the park by a passerby who called the police and ambulance. She was taken to a hospital, and doctors worked to remove the bullet for over two hours before giving up on finding it all due to it being near vital organs. According to reports, Samuels shot herself in the chest after Allen left her at the altar because they couldn't be married. The police chief gave Allen the ultimatum between solitary confinement or finally wearing a dress when the jail reopened its women's ward, but Allen remained in the clothes of his choosing for the entirety of his stay at the county jail.