Julia Fortmeyer

Julia Fortmeyer was a 19th-century abortionst from St. Louis, Missouri, who was convicted of manslaughter in 1875 and sentenced to 10 years in prison, and served seven. ^{[1] [2]}

Author L.U. Reavis later recounted that prosecutor Colonel Normile had unsuccessfully sought to prove that Fortmeyer had burned a baby alive. During the trial, Normile argued for both murder in the first degree or manslaughter in the second. ^[3] A transcript of the trial was published in 1875 by Barclay & Company of Philadelphia. ^[4]

In 1899, a St Louis newspaper compared Fortmeyer to another abortionist, Henrietta Bamberger, who had been arrested under similar circumstances. The paper reported that Fortmeyer had "killed infants and burned their bodies in a cook stove." ^{[5] [6]}

References

1. Bregman, Lucy (2010). Religion, Death, and Dying. ABC-CLIO. ISBN   978-0-313-35180-8.
2. Klose, Roland (April 8, 2023). "'The baby burner'". Roland Klose editor / writer. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
3. Reavis, L. U. (1876). Saint Louis: The Future Great City of the World : with Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men and Women of St. Louis and Missouri. C. R. Barns.
4. Life, Crimes and Confession of Mrs. Julia Fortmeyer of St. Louis, Mo., Known as The Baby Burner. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Barclay & Company. 1875. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
5. "A woman who is said to be a fiend - Mrs. Henrietta Bamberger". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. 1899-11-19. p. 25. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
6. "Baby burner - November 19, 1899". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. 1899-11-19. p. 26. Retrieved 2018-01-20.