On July 11, 1904, Alma Swanson died at her home from an abortion performed there that day.
Midwife Constance Marie Anderson was arrested and held by Coroner's Jury on July 15.
Though the fact that Alma's abortion was done in her home reeks of "back alley butchery" to modern sensibilities, surgery performed in the home was not that unusual at the time.
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