The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-26
tiATH4WAY'S CRIME
How the AbOrtfOnist Conducted Him.
self Before the COurt-~The Tesfi.
lnanr Against Him.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June o. Before com.
hitting DIR Hathaway. the abortionist fof
trial. Coroner .Janney said. with unusual
solemnity Il believe that you have beer
guilty Of the murder, not only of hundreds
but of thousands of children, aEd, Indeed,
the evidence given to-day wcGld seem to
prove that his career of infancy has been kng
enough to enable him to make himself
record unparalleled in the history
OF crime in any city in the world Tue man
is 20 years of age, hut as be appeared
iD court be would easily pass for 10 or
under. He is hale AMI well preserved, and
his eyes are of unusual brightness for one so
old, He.wore thin alpaca coat and white
shirt without collar He looked shabby
and miserable as far as his dress was con
cerned, but in spirit he did not appear to be
mach peftutsbed A nervous. Jerking Of his
haiis4s as be fiiInbled an old st1sepipe hat now
and then vas the ealy Indication that he gave
fof any feeling. and that only when the
woman, ,yhoanow call; herself Anna Emery,
took the stand She said:
II became acquainted with Hathaway IF
| teen years ago, one'week before / supposed
myself to be legally married to him. ] do
not know the man who married u.s. There
was no one present but the three of US |
llived with him as his wife fourteen years,
and have had three living children and one
dead ! had not been married before Dur
ing the timeI lived with Hathaway as his
wife / was III several times through his
/ operations"
! She described the Instrument and manner
Of procedure adopted by Hathaway in his
criminal practices, and also identified it. She
said be had been operating upon women as
long as she had known him. He4told her
that he had learned the practice when be was
4 q. She had been present at some of the OBJ
creations and assisted him. His charges
were $40, $15, 500 and S25, according to
their conditions, She did not know the
names of any Of the patients. Most all of
the children born in the house were born
| alive, but they did not remain alive long.
Hathaway would take the children away him
self. When the house was clear he would
bury the bodies In the cellar. There were
dogs iii the yard, but she did not know whether
he turned them into the cellar Sometimes
there would be as many as twenty five to
thirty patients aday The average was about
ten day. Hathaway had thrown some of
the bodies in the fire three or four hours after
birth.
There was an abundance of corroborative
testimony from Benjamin Hathaway, a
19-year-old-son, and Edward PITCHER, a son
of Anna emery. The coroner said to the
jury that reinforcement used by Hathaway,
although rough one, and probably made by
blacksmith, was an ingenious affair. 1t
was so constructed as to kill the child and in.
juring the mother very little. Describing
the method of operation adopted Hathaway,
and, judgi ing from the character OF
the instru ments, he said he had no doubt
that the story of Anna Emery was true.
He believed so for the reason that at one time
he arrested Hathaway himself for criminal
malpractice on Mary Butler, servant girl
: in house on Marshal street; that the CIR
when confronted with Hathaway, said he wa;
the man who had operated upon her. ''The
jury came to the conclusion said the fore
man, that DR.. Isaac Hathaway was guilty
of abortion in numerous cases. The coroner
Z then committed him to prison to await the
action Of the grand jury, and committed
Anna Emery also, to be used as a witness