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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

January 10, 1907: Midwife Implicated in Chicago

On January 10, 1907, homemaker Ellen White, a 36-year-old Irish immigrant, died of shock and hemorrhage in her Chicago home from an abortion perpetrated about a week before Christmas. A midwife named Emma Watchek was arrested in the death.

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Source: Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database

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