June 6, 1907: Midwife Implicated in Fatal Abortion

On June 6, 1907, homemaker Julia M. Williamson, a 29-year-old native of Tennessee, died at her Chicago home from complications of an abortion performed there that day. 

A midwife named Emily Redemski was held by the coroner's jury, but acquitted by a judge for reasons not given in the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database. (Additional information from Illinois death index)