Another Chicago Midwife's Fatal Work

On February 9, 1911, homemaker Elizabeth Martin died in Chicago from complications of an abortion . Mrs. Schutner , identified as a midwif...

Which one was typical?

On February 8, 1919, Ruth Fragale , a 20-year-old clerk, died at her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The coroner found that she had died ...

Two Criminal, Two Safe and Legal, all Fatal

On February 6, 1919, 22-year-old homemaker Edna Griffith died at Chicago's Passavant Hospital from complications of an abortion perpe...

Three Dastardly Criminal Deaths and One "All Surgery Has Risks"

Mercedes Berriozaba l's death is mysterious indeed. According to the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database , by the time of her de...

1986: The Invisible Woman

According to her death certificate, Janyth Caldwell , age 36, died February 4, 1986, a month after George Wayne Patterson attempted to perf...

Doctors' Fatal Efforts Before and After Legalization

On February 3, 1912, 37-year-old Helen Imhoff died on the scene from an abortion perpetrated by Dr. W. A. Beringer and midwife Margaret M...

1926: Fatal Work of an Unknown Perp

On February 2, 1926, Alberta Handy , a 38-year-old Black woman, died of a botched abortion in Chicago. The perpetrator was never caught. Al...