Sunday, March 16, 2025

March 16, 1924: Accomplice Arrested but Not the Abortionist

On March 16, 1924, 35-year-old Selma Hedlund died in Chicago's Jefferson Park Hospital (pictured) from complications of an abortion performed that day. 

According to census records, Selma and her husband, Arvid, operated a small boarding house.

The Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database says that she died at the crime scene. Nobody was ever positively identified as the abortionist. However, a Carl Carlson, indicated as a person known to Selma, was arrested as an accomplice.

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