Fosberg at the age of 79In December of 1916, 23-year-old Pauline Hill died at Chicago’s Post Graduate Hospital from complications of an abortion. She made a deathbed statement that Dr. George E. Fosberg had perpetrated the abortion at his office in late November..

Fosberg had previously been implicated in the 1906 abortion death of 26-year-old Bessie Orme and was later convicted in the 1944 abortion death of Geraldine Schuyler.