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| Dr. Justin Mitchell |
On December 10, 1931, 30-year-old homemaker Ethel Vaughan died from abortion complications at St. Bernard's Hospital in Chicago. Her husband, clerk Harold Vaughan, alleged that Dr. Justin Mitchel had perpetrated the fatal abortion in his office on November 16.
According to the 1930 census, Harold and Ethel had a 6-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son. Ethel's mother, sister, ad brother-in-law lived with the couple as well.
Mitchell was later implicated in the abortion deaths of Florence Jordan in 1933, of Mary Schwartz in 1934, and of Alice Haggin and Mary Nowalowski in 1936.
Sources:
- "Doctor Is Seized on Murder Charge in Woman's Death," The Chicago Tribune, December 11, 1931
- Illinois death index
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