May 26, 1933: Another Dying Woman Named Dr. Mitchell as Abortionist

Dr. Justin Mitchell

While I was looking for more information about the February 2, 1936 abortion death of Alice Haggin, I found an article linking Alice's abortionist, Justin Mitchell, to yet another death. While dying in Chicago's West Side Hospital, Mrs. Florence Falske Jordan named Mitchell as the man who had perpetrated her fatal abortion on May 8, 1933. Florence died on May 26.

According to the 1930 census, Florence and her husband, Edward, lived in the home of Edward's grandmother, Elizabeth Jordan, with their 2-year-old daughter. Edward was a driver for a dry-goods company and Florence was a homemaker. 

Mitchell had been implicated in the 1931 abortion death of Ethel Vaughan. Mitchell was also implicated in the abortion deaths of Florence Jordan in 1933, of Mary Schwartz in 1934, and of Mary Nowalowski in 1936. 

Sources:

• "Physician Arrested After Woman Dies of Operation," Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1933.