Albin Garland was an African-American reverend and the director of the Colored Orphan Asylum in Manhattan, New York City during the 1860s. In September 1864, he was accused of killing and hanging the Irish thug Diarmuid O'Connor after he threatened to burn down the asylum, and he was arrested by NYPD detective Kevin Corcoran until it was determined that the stabler had been killed by a seamstress, Bessie Longfield, whom he had refused to pay. Garland intended to take the blame for the crime until Corcoran found proof that Longfield, and not Garland, was the murderer.