![]() ![]() The defendants were convicted on Jand given indeterminate sentences. The trial of Unger and Brown began on May 21, 1901. Smiley, who was a detective, pled guilty and turned state's evidence. During the investigation it was discovered that Doctor Unger's brother died in New York in September of 1899 under similar circumstances. Smiley were arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud various insurance companies. But something went very wrong and Defenbach died on Augunder suspicious circumstances. Unger would issue the necessary death certificate and collect the insurance money. After Defenbach was declared dead another body would be secured and quickly cremated. Unger's plan was that the girl should insure her life for large sums of money and later he would give her a drug which would make her appear desperately ill and lapse into a coma simulating death. Unger, a medical doctor, who concocted a plan with one of his patients, Marie Defenbach, to defraud insurance companies. Various documents related to the case of August M. The People of the State of Illinois (Abstract of Record) Volume 2 (1887). The People of the State of Illinois (Abstract of Record) Volume 1 (1887).Īppeal of the Haymarket defendants. The People of the State of Illinois: Brief on the Facts For Defendants in Error (1887).īrief for the State of Illinois. ![]()
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