SLACK, Alma
Date of death: 3 Mar 1890 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 7, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 37, page 3 column 2
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Miss Alma Slack died in a rather mysterious manner at the residence of C. B. Tarlton in southeast Franklin on Monday morning. Coroner Jones heard testimony and found death had resulted from septicaema [sic] caused by a criminal operation performed by herself. The next grand jury should investigate the case.
The Franklin Democrat, March 7, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 37, page 6 column 4
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CORONER’S VERDICT
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| STATE OF INDIANA, Johnson County, |
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The undersigned coroner of Johnson County, Indiana, did on the 3th and 4th days of March, 1890, hold an inquest on the body of Alma Slack, found dead in Franklin, Indiana, on the 3rd day of March, 1890, and having heard the testimony of witnesses and an anti-mortem statement of the deceased, find that the deceased came to her death by reason of septicaema [sic] caused by an abortion produced by herself.
Deceased was 21 years old and unmarried. No valuables found on the body.
J. T. JONES,
Coroner J. C.
Franklin, Ind., March 4th 1890.
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920 page 187, referencing Book H-16, page 20, records that Alma Slack, a twenty-one-year-old white female, died 3 Mar 1890 in Franklin.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry