Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
A SOCIAL VOLCANO.

PHILADELPHIA, June 20 There
shoulders beneath aristocratic Philadel-
phia to night volcano, the bursting forth
of which may cause greater sensation III
high society than did the arrest of the no
torious New York abortionist, Madame
Restell To-day city detectives unearth
ed in the cellar of the premises 2243
North Fifth street the skeletons.of Twen-
ty-one infants. The house, now occu-
pied by a respectable family, was within
year the abode Of the well-known abor
ZIONIST, Dr. Isaac j. Hathaway, the init
mate associate of Thomas B. Miller, who
now practices medicine and breaches the
gospel in the northeastern part Of the
city. Miller formerly ran bureau OF
medical advice at 460 North Ninth street,
and issued circulars intended for untor-
tunate young women. In this wise, the
new and self constituted disciple OF
Christ, managed to catch the eye Of
numerous victims of indiscretion, all Of
whom he turned over to Hathaway, the
surgeon in the place. In April, 1881, a
young domestic, who had come into pos
session of one of these circulars, called
upon Miller with the view of avoiding
public disgrace, and was referred to
Halfway. The girl gave birth to a
dead baby at the house of her employer.
A coroner's investigation followed, and
both Hathaway and Miller were placed
under heavy bail. Security was entered
and the malpractitioners fled, Miller to
St Louis and Hathaway to the Lehigh
Valley Friends of the fugitives bribed
! the girl upon whom the abortion had
been performed to return to her home in
Iralend. Miller then returned and was
rearrested. He was defended by broth
er of the Assistant District Attorney,
who prosecuted the case, and an acquit-
tai without testimony was the result.
Miller's success induced Hathaway to
come back, but he was rot arrested.
Hathaway's brutal conduct to his wife
and stepson caused a separation, and led
the latter to have him apprehended on a
charge Of assault and battery, and he
now languishes in prison awaiting trialffor
that offense. The stepson! then lodged then
with the authorities the information that
led 70 the horrible discovery of to-day.
Mrs Hathaway made the statement that
the Doctor was frequently visited by
fashionable ladies, whose names she
promises to disclose in the event of the
prosecution requiring them; that scores
OF poorer girls were repeatedly operated
upon by her husband; that he has per
formed upon her from eight to eleven
abortions, greatly impairng her health,
and that the houses in which they have
lived during their fifteen years of married
life were actually resting upon founda-
tons of human skeletons. 1t is said by
the neighbors that Hathaway kept in his
cellar several dogs which were frequently
heard quarrelling, as if over fed, anc
children have often seen the animals
gnawing raw bones. There is no doubt
but that Hathaway, after killing the new
born babes, threw them into the cellar
where dogs stripped the flesh from the
bones which were afterward shoveled
into pit, merely one corner Of the eel
lar was examined and the impression
prevails that there are hundreds of other
skeletons buried in other parts of the
basement.