File:Brooklyn Eagle, Tuesday, September 1, 1868.jpg

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The Long Island Mystery. Arrest of a Butcher on Suspicion of Murder. At eight o'clock last night Officer O.H. Smith, of the Forty-fourth Precinct, arrested George H. Powell, a butcher doing business in Washington Market and residing in Marcy, near Myrtle Avenue, who is charged with being an accomplice in the death of Susannah Lattin, of Farmingdale, Long Island, who decease[d] at the alleged private lying-in asylum of Dr. Grindle, No. 6 Amity Street, New York, has already been noticed in the Brooklyn Eagle. It is alleged that a few months since Powell hired some furnished rooms on Myrtle Avenue, near Ryerson Street, to which place it is stated he took Miss Lattin and introduced her as his wife. It is also alleged that after living with her there as his wife, he afterwards took her to No. 6 Amity Street for treatment, and introduced her there also as his wife. It will be remembered that Daune, Dr. Grindle's student, who testified at the inquest commenced by Coroner Rollins on Saturday, recognized Powell as the man who had called on the deceased several times before her death, and from whom at her desire, he obtained the necessary instructions for forwarding a letter to her parents, when Dr. Finnell of West Houston Street informed her of the precarious state she was placed in. Powell is 38 years of age, a butcher by trade, and is married. He was sent last night to the Fifteenth Precinct Station House in New York to await the action of Coroner Rollins, who will resume the investigation relative to the cause of Miss Lattin's death on Thursday next.

People[edit]

• Susannah Lattin, the deceased
• Henry Dyer Grindle, the owner of the abortion clinic that also performed illegal adoptions of the live births
• Aaron Burr Rollins (1818-1878), the coroner
• George H. Powell (1830-?), Susannah's cousin who accompanied her to the clinic
• Mr. Daune, a medical student training at the abortion clinic
• Dr. Thomas Constantine Finnell (1827-1890), the attending physician at Susannah's death

Source[edit]

Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday, September 01, 1868

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• 2005-01-31 10:17 Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 359×531× (198194 bytes) Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday, September 01, 1868