religion other_names nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
catholic hellcat maggie irish american c. 1820 five rabbits . points personality and early member of the dead hell-cat maggie
 hell-cat maggie criminal
hell-cat maggie

hell-cat maggie -lrb- fl .
1840 -- 1845 -rrb- was the pseudonym of an american criminal and early member of the dead rabbits .
she was a well-known personality in manhattan 's five points district and a noted female fighter , her teeth reportedly filed into points and who wore long claw-like brass fingernails , who fought alongside the dead rabbits and other five pointers against rival nativist gangs from the bowery , most especially the bowery boys , during the early 1840s .
although there is little information on her life , she is one of the earliest female criminals of the `` gangs of new york '' era and has been compared to later criminals such as sadie the goat , gallus mag and battle annie , the latter leading the female auxiliary of the gopher gang during the 1870s .
a composite character based on hell-cat maggie , sadie the goat and gallus mag was played by cara seymour in the 2002 film adaptation of herbert asbury 's `` gangs of new york '' directed by martin scorsese .
she was also featured in the 2003 historical novel `` a passionate girl '' by thomas j. fleming .
