January 11, 1912: The First Victim of Alma Dittman?

Blanche Grace Ainslie, age 25, died January 11, 1912, after undergoing a criminal abortion attributed to midwife Alma Dittman in Denver, Colorado. 

The case was later dropped for reasons I've been unable to determine, since it would become abundantly clear that Dittman was a practicing abortionist. She would go on to be implicated in the abortion deaths of  Mabelle Cannon in 1917, Carrie McDonald in 1922, Mabel Duncan in 1923, and Rose Savoren in 1927.

Watch First of Five Abortion Deaths Blamed on Midwife on YouTube.

• "Midwife Acquitted," Santa Fe New Mexican, February 9, 1912
• Genealogy information