On January 6, 1905, a young woman was found dead in a ditch near
Dunning, Illinois. The body was taken to an undertaking establishment,
where it remained until nearly a month later, when the dead woman was
identified by her siblings as 28-year-old Ida Vierow.
It was determined that she had died on the day her body had been discovered, from an abortion performed in Chicago.
Two midwives, Amella Maichrowicz and Anna Becker,
were arrested, along with Maichrowicz's husband, Joseph. The
Maichrowiczs, who ran an unlicensed hospital in Melrose Park, were
arrested near the end of February.
On January 6, 1924, 26-year-old Helen Koss died at Norwegian American Hospital of complications from an abortion perpetrated in Chicago on December 23, 1923. Midwife Mrs. Emma Morch was arrested, and indicted for homicide by a grand jury.
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