SUMMARY: Nellie Ryan, age 21, died after an abortion by an unidentified perpetrator in Chicago. Doctor Reports Dead Woman Shortly before 11:00 on Saturday morning, October 20, 1877, Dr. D. C. Stillians went to the Madison Street police station in Chicago. He wanted to call the Coroner's attention to a case that he described as "crooked." He had been called in to attend to a 21-year-old ...
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