The People v. Gleitsmann

A writ of error was sued out by Emil Gleitsmann to review a judgment of conviction in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of manslaughter by abortion.

Mary Colbert was an unmarried woman twenty-three years old and had been keeping company with Edward Detman. According to the testimony of Detman he accompanied her on March 15, 1933, to the office of the defendant, a licensed practicing physician. Detman told defendant Miss Colbert was pregnant and that he wanted her relieved. After a fee was agreed upon, the defendant, in the presence of the witness, made a vaginal examination and…