Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1914 — Jury Failed to Agree in Abortion Case. [ARTICLE]

Jury Failed to Agree in Abortion Case.

The trial of Dr. Samuel S. Washburn of Lafayette, charged with haying caused the death of Miss Hazel Dudley’ of .Mitchell, So. Dak., last September in an operation for abortion, ended last week in the Benton circuit court, in a disagreement of the jury, and the case will come up again. I speaking of the case the Benton Review says: “After the jury was dismissed Prosecutor required Dr. Washburn to.give a new bond, and for double the former amount. “The greatest tragedy of the as-

fair was that when the body of the dead girl was taken back to Mitchell her betrayer was one of the pall bearers, and put on a sanctimonious air, but the girl had died without making a written statementufion which to base a prosecution, and it was ‘only an incident’ to him.”