Friday, September 18, 2026

October 18, 1939: Doctor Sentenced to Sing-Sing

On October 18, 1939, Miss Alice Corbett, age 28, of Brooklyn, New York, died at Murray Hill Hospital in Manhattan. The young telephone operator's death was attributed to "acute gangrenous and suppurative endometritis," that was "diffuse" and "generalized" and caused by a uterine perforation during an illegal abortion. 

An investigation determined that 48-year-old Dr. Allen F. Murphy had perpetrated the fatal abortion at his office at 159 West 87th Street in Queens. Murphy was sentenced to 2-10 years in Sing-Sing for Alice's death. 

I can't find prison records for Murphy, so it's possible that he got his conviction overturned.

According to census records, Murphy was born in Ohio in 1893, son of Benjamin and Lillie Murphy. He remained in Cincinnati, Ohio, until at least 1920. He lived in rural Kentucky through most of the 1930s. After relocating to New York, Murphy worked as a physician for a steamboat company. He died at the age of 70 in Columbus, Ohio on January 17, 1963.

Alice's abortion was typical of pre-legalization abortions in that it was performed by a physician.

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

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Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

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