Two dentists botch an abortion on Pearl Bryan of Greencastle, Indiana.
Naturally, they then kill her.
Then decapitate her.
They were hanged 3/20/1897

          Young ladies, if you'll listen, a story I'll relate,
          Which happened near St Thomas in the old Kentucky state.
          It was January the 31st, that awful deed was done,
          By Jackson & Walling. How cold Pearl's blood did run.
  
                  Olive Woolley Burt, American Murder Ballads, 1958. 
                  Also The New Green Mountain Songster, HH Flanders, etc., 

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