January 21, 1926: An Indictment but No Follow-Through

On January 21 of 1926, 38-year-old homemaker Victoria Smith died in Chicago from a botched abortion. The Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database indicates that the abortion was performed at Jefferson Park Hospital, but the database often erroneously lists the hospital where the woman died as the location of the abortion. 

On January 26, the coroner pushed for the arrest of Peter Krakowski as the principal and Mary Sprochi as an accessory. Krakowski's profession is not given. On February 15, Krakowski was indicted for felony murder. 

According to death records, Victoria was born to Joseph and Salome Paczkowski in Kamoinka, Poland around 1888. She left behind a husband named Joseph.