Newspaper characters

Newspaper Characters are characters featured in Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2 who are mentioned in newspapers.

Red Dead Redemption

The Brannigans

Cole Brannigan

Husband of Ella Brannigan, father of Melvin and Mollie.

Ella Brannigan

Wife of Cole Brannigan, mother of Melvin and Mollie.

Melvin Brannigan

Son of Cole and Ella Brannigan, married his sister, Mollie.

Mollie Brannigan

Daughter of Cole and Ella Brannigan, married her brother, Melvin.

The Erringtons

Earl Errington

Husband of Betsie Errington, father of 12 children, with the latest being Francis Leonard Errington.

Betsie Errington

Wife of Earl Errington, mother of 12 children, with the latest being Francis Leonard Errington.

Francis Leonard Errington

Son of Earl and Betsie Errington, 12th child.

Doctors

Dr. Charles L. Helden

A doctor who believes increased smoking in the workplace will cure Tuberculosis.

Dr. Lydia T. Pinkerton

First female doctor in Blackwater, causing a controversy.

Dr. Hayden Precent

Unearthed prehistoric skeleton of an ape that links to humans. Upset the church, doesn't believe in hell.

Dr. Wesley Arthurs

Outspoken critic of Dr. Pinkerton and women physicians.

Dr. Lawrence Mariani

A doctor that claims cocaine is bad for health.

Ridgewood Massacre

Mary Shackleford

Age 19, killed in the Ridgewood Farm Massacre.

Willie Feaney

Age 27, killed in the Ridgewood Massacre, presumably a relative of Gladys Feaney.

Salesmen

H.R. Putnan

General Merchandise salesman in Armadillo.

Jeremiah Somerset Esq.

According to Oliver Phillips, Somerset is looking to ban alcohol in the state in order to make a profit selling personal liquor.

Simian Sideshow

Ma Tanner

Ringmaster of "Ma Tanner's Simian Sideshow".

Mr. Jocko

Performing monkey in "Ma Tanner's Simian Sideshow", escaped but was captured and killed for disobedience.

Buried Alive

Florence Snyder

Age 13, suffered from cholera and went into shock. Seemingly dead so she was buried but in a safety coffin. Woke up, rang the bell, and her betrothed dug her out.

Cecil Perkins

Betrothed to Florence Snyder. Dug her out when she rang the bell on her safety coffin.

Criminals

Gertrude Singer

Woman charged with indecent exposure after refusing to wear a corset.

Johnny West

Gunslinger killed by Landon Ricketts. Reportedly shot in the back.

Butcher Brothers

Outlaws killed by Landon Ricketts in 1896.

"One-Lung" Lester Riley

Outlaw killed by Marshal Leigh Johnson.

Two Crows Boys

Outlaws killed by Marshal Leigh Johnson.

Wildcat Willie

Outlaw killed by Marshal Leigh Johnson.

Other

Sirus Habersham

Attorney General who prosecuted A.D. Dunbar & Sons Sugar company.

Rev. Adair Agatha

Reverend who is outspoken towards birth control techniques.

Prof. Hector L. Burgess

A professor who advocates the preservation of the prairies.

Horace L. Curtiss

A pilot who flew coast to coast in under 30 days.

Lionel Fortisque

Academic at Yale University. He disagreed with Prof. Harold MacDougal's theories on eugenics and MacDougal assaulted him with a crochet club during a garden party while on a drug-induced rampage.

Prof. Bellum Brown

Claims he has discovered dinosaur bones and is going to plaster them. Critics say the bones were buried by a scientist and indicated "that nowhere in the historical record is there a mention of giant lizards".

Red Dead Redemption 2

Submarine in the Works Jack Yanner H.T. Abernathy	Liquor Smuggled Into Indian Territory Cletus Yarnell Lawrence Branch Marshal Tidwell	Tallulah Jetty Gang Killed Harold Sutton James Shaw Marshal Fulkerton William Bishop	Brothers Slain Earl Bennett Gideon Bennett Ira Bennett	The Sad Story of Otis Miller Jr. Otis Miller Otis Miller Jr.	Micah Bell Killed Micah Bell III Dutch van der Linde Sheriff Brackston Hefner
Chicago Negroes Hold Anti-Lynching Service Reverend Benson Floyd Otto Luther Chandler	President Waxman Hails Progress, Discusses Canal President Alfred Macalister President Thaddeus Waxman Col. William Thomas Kirchner	Mexican Desperados Bring Terror Reverend Eunice Garrand Flaco Hernández	Lawman Found Dead Henry Jenkins Angelo Bronte	Who Are Scarlett Meadows Bandits? Gertrude Bambach Sheriff Thomkins	President Congratulates America President Alfred Macalister Colonel Thaddeus Waxman
President's Acts Further Isolate America President Alfred Macalister	Mexican Border Dispute Intensifies President Alfred Macalister General Francisco Ramirez Torres	The King of Corsets King Henry II of France Algernon Wasp	Peck's Flying Machine Crashes Cecil H. Peck Wright Brothers	Prominent Yale Scientist Speaks Out Harold MacDougal Benjamin Fortescue	Twenty-One Dead in Attacks Alex H. Hughes Colm O'Driscoll
Weekly Round Up Reverend T Virgil Gosnell Theodore Hammond Maud Hammond Cecil Hubert Mattie Hubert Imma Jean Minson Addie Neally Beatrice Thacker Flora Lamb Virginia Lamb Ruby Lamb Lottie Van Pelt Blanche Gorman Mamie Boatwright	Pinkertons Find Missing Man John O'Neill A Second Gold Rush Anthony Annesburg Mine Accident Archibald Jameson Aerial Amazement Bessie Adair	Treasure Hunter Disappears Henrietta Abresson Louis T. Abresson Banks Worry of Crash JD McKnight O'Driscoll Captured Judge Taylor Colm O'Driscoll Pneumatic Wonder! Thomas Rivington	Farm Lynching Murderers Wanted Micah Bell III Micah Bell II Roscoe Briggs Jean Briggs A Fifth Person Slain Bosco Lopez Army General Praises Troops General Edwin Forsythe	Widow's Life Savings Chewed Up By Rats Myrtle Snodgrass Jesse Man Exposes Medical Frauds Nigel West Dickens Motorized Lawn Mower Patented Carlile McKinnroy	Machine Kills Man Thomas Eberhardt Mrs. Eberhardt My Cows Strayed T.K. Lengingham Allbright Captured Fannie Crenshaw Benedict Allbright