Additional Mail Sum-MARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 196, 26 July 1883, Page 2

Additional Mail SumMARY.

HORRIBLE DISCLOSURES IN AMERICA.

J^Bt TBLBGBAPH.I frost Oosrespqndent.J Auckland, July 24. On 80th June the police found m the cellar of a dwelling at No. 2348, North Fifth-street, Philadelphia, formerly occupied by Dr Isaac Hathaway, an alleged abortionist, the bodies of several | children, and a large number of human bodies. Dr Hathaway was arrested m March, 1881, with the Rev. T. B. Millar; for committing criminal malpractice upon Mary Butler, a servant girl, whose child died after an opeta- ! tion. Both were admitted to bail, and | Hathaway fled. He, however, returned to the city some time ago, but -has never I been re-arrested on the charge. Three | months ago his wife charged him with brutally assaulting her, and threatening her life, She asked to. have a warrant issued for his arrest, but subsequently withdrew the charge. She made some revolting disclosures to the police. Up to 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 80th, 21 skulls or portions of skulls of infants have been found buried In the cellar ot his dwelling. Dr Hathaway is now io a county prison charged with assaulting a relative. The coroner has lodged a detainer at the prison against him. | The New York World's correspondent says that after Dr Hathaway left Phila. delphia he went to a little village near Manch Chunk, Fa. A resident near there tells strange stories of the doctor's house. Young girls were reen to go m there and were soon afterwards reported to the police missing. For years past the doctor is said to have been engaged m criminal mal-pric* j tice% When the detectives quitted work m the evening, they discovered 25 BknllSi but no signs of flesh could be seen. Hathaway kept several large dogs, aud it is supposed they lived on human flesh. An account book was found, whioh covered the period extending from May, 1876, to July, 1882, aud contained the names and addresses of about 200 females, with the amount for services written on msrgioc