Mother freed in heiress death
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Mother freed in heiress death

Associated Press · January 31, 1956

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Mrs. Gertrude Silver, center, head bowed and clutching a handkerchief, is led down a courtroom corridor today after she was given a suspended sentence in the abortion death of her daughter, 22-year-old food chain heiress, Doris Jean Ostreicher. A man and his wife, charged with actually performing the abortion, drew prison terms.

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