On August 13, 1873, Cleveland, Ohio, Detective Lewis Muncie found his wife dead in their bedroom. The autopsy revealed that she had died from an abortion.

Source: “Cleveland,” The Chicago Tribune, August 14, 1873

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• Find-a-Grave notes a Kate K. Muncie , age unknown, who died in August, 1873 and is buried in Cleveland’s Woodland Cemetery.