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.

[1] Donohue was born in San Francisco, California into a working-class Irish Catholic family that lived south of Market Street.

[3] It is not known when she left the Boas household, but at some stage she became a dance hall girl and had earned the reputation of having been a hard drinker.

In the same year, she married Frank Daroux, a political boss who also owned pool halls and gambling dens in the city.

From the 1920s until her death in April 1932, Tessie was the unofficial "queen" of the annual San Francisco policeman's balls, and it became her custom to lead the Grand March in the Civic Auditorium.