July 1, 1896: Another of Dr. Lucy Hagenow's Dead

 From the records of the Cook County Coroner's office:

The said Hannah Carlson now lying dead at Passavant Memorial Hospital in said City of Chicago County of Cook State of Illinois came to her death on the 1st day of July AD 1896 From Peritonitis and Intestinal Gangrene following perforation of the uterus the result of an Abortion said Abortion being performed at 104 Wells St by one Louise Hagenow and one Ida Von Schulz and from the evidence presented We the Jury recommend that the said Louise Hagenow and Ida Von Schulz be held to the Grand Jury until discharged by due course of law.

Dr. Louise "Lucy" Hagenow

Hagenow and von Schulz were arrested and released on $5,000 bond each. Emil Olsen was indicted for having arranged the abortion; he was released on $1,500 bond.

Both Hagenow and von Schulz were identified in the Inter Ocean as midwives, which was a common way to refer to female obstetricians at the time. Each said that she had been licensed to practice medicine in Switzerland, though Hagenow would later claim to have graduated from medical school in the United States.

Hannah, age 19 or 20, was 8th of the 18 victims attributed to Dr. Lucy Hagenow:

1. Louise Derchow (1st San Francisco death, 1887)
2. Annie Dorries (1888)
3. Abbia Richards (1888)
4. Emma Depp (1888)
5. Minnie Dearing (1st Chicago death, 1891)
6. Sophia Kuhn (1892)
7. Emily Anderson (1892)
8. Hannah Carlson (1896)
9. Marie Hecht (1899)
10. Mary Putnam (1905)
11. Lola Madison (1906)
12. Annie Horvatich (1907)
13. Lottie Lowy (1925)
14. Nina Pierce (1925)
15. Jean Cohen (1925)
16. Bridget Masterson (1925)
17. Elizabeth Welter (1925)
18. Mary Moorehead (1926)

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Sources:

• 'Faces a Big Docket," The Inter Ocean, July 21, 1896
• "Told in a Paragraph," The Inter Ocean, August 2, 1896
• "Olsen Admitted to Bail," The Inter Ocean, August 30, 1896