FRAWLEY Mary AlphonsineLivre Rare Book
Partial 1905 Wanted Poster for Mary S. Dean Charged with Providing an Illegal Abortion to a Murdered Woman
1905réf. List2839Boston Massachusetts 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Marks at upper left side some folding. Otherwise excellent to near fine. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean dated December 16 1905. Three months prior a young woman's torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A month later a suitcase containing her limbs was found and she was identified as Susanna Geary. In September Geary had gone to the medical practice on Tremont Street where Dean worked as a nurse and Dean had performed an abortion for her - at the time an illegal procedure in Massachusetts. Geary developed sepsis from the surgery; when she died Dean and three men one a doctor conspired to dismember Geary and dispose of her body in the ocean.1 The doctor was acquitted and the two men pleaded guilty but Mary S. Dean was never found. 1 "Says McLeod Made Plans: Crawford Testifies in Suit Case Trial" The Boston Globe November 28 1905. unknown books
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