Passed away at John Streeter Hospital in Cook Co, IL.

Thank you Christina Dunigan (#67) for contributing information for this memorial.

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Charged with Murder.

Hobart Gazette: Mrs. Bertha Laube, midwife of this place, was placed under arrest on Tuesday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Gill, charged with murder. The affair grew out of the death of Mrs. Mabel A. Brock, which occurred at the Streeter hospital in Chicago last Monday evening. Coroner Hoffman of Cook county, Illinois, who conducted the inquest over the remains telephoned Deputy Sheriff Gill to hold Mrs. Laube until a warrant could be issued. Mr. Gill telephone Sheriff Carter for instructions and as he came down town from his home he happened to meet Prosecuting Attorney Boone who was in Hobart on other business and to whom he made known the fact. The prosecutor commanded Mr. Gill to hold Mrs. Laube for the time being. Having performed that duty, Mr. Gill turned the charge of the lady over to Marshal Rose while he went with the prosecutor to Lake Station to investigate the matter. They returned in a couple of hours with Annie Hutchinson, the nurse who had been with Mrs. Brock during her illness and at the time of her death and who filed an affidavit before Squire Mathews, charging Mrs. Laube with having performed an unlawful operation upon Mrs. Brock on or about the 1st day of September, 1907, etc., etc. A warrant was then issued for the arrest of Mrs. Laube, who was brought before Judge Mathews in the evening. The state was represented by Prosecutor Boone and the defendant by Attorney J. H. Conroy of Hammond and Attorney R. R. Peddicord of Hobart.

The matter of a continuance for trial and that of bail were discussed at some length and the court was loath, under the charge, to admit the defendant to bail, but it was finally agreed to allow Marshal Rose to have charge of the defendant until Wednesday at 9 o'clock when the matter could be brought to the attention of Judge Reiter of the superior court. At that hour and date the defendant's attorneys filed habeas corpus proceedings and Judge Reiter permitted the defendant to return home without bail but under surveilance [sic] of Marshal Rose until such time as the case could be heard at a preliminary hearing, which will probably be within a few days and before Judge Mathews. The charge filed against the defendant is a grave one and the disposition of the case will be watched with interest, owing to its local nature.

It is claimed that Mrs. Brock made a death-bed confession to her nurse.

Source: The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; October 3, 1907; Volume 24, Number 27, Page 1, Column 4.