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Pocahontas County, Iowa NewsDr. Phillips & Samuel Hughes A Pocahontas County Sensation A Dubuque telegram of the 7th inst. locates a sensation at Marvin, a little town on the Central road, near Newell. It charges that a Dr. Phipps, residing in the latter place, produced an abortion upon a person of Mrs. Hughes, a young married woman of 16 years of age, the husband approving of the crime alleging as an excuse the extreme youth of his wife. Dr. Phipps was detected and arrested, together with Samuel Hughes, the husband, and bound over in the sum of $1000 to appear at the next session of the District Court. Sioux City Journal, February 12, 1873 - - - - - - - - - - The Marvin sensation Particulars of the Hughes Abortion Case- The Quilty Husband and Physican Held to Bail From the Dubuque Herald , Feb 13. The little town of Marvin, in pocahontas County, West of Fort Dodge, has it’s story of blood and scandal to relate in an abortion case that came to light two weeks ago, regarding which brief paragraphs appeared in the Chicago papers, sent to them by telegraph , and copied by city newspapers generallly throughout the country. Through the kindness of a Marvin correspondent, however, we are enabled to give readers of the Herald full particulars of it. The parties concerned in this inhuman affair are Samuel Hughes, a Marvin Merchant about 50 yrs of age, who was married to his second wife a young girl between 17 and 18 years of age, four months ago, who is the victim of his cruelty and heartlessness. The wife is said to be very becoming and prepossessing lady, and deserving a better fate than has been allotted her thus far in her wedded life. The third party is a physician from Newell, a town a few miles from Marvin whose services were procured by Hughes to bring about the abortion. How suspicion was aroused. Although Hughes had been married but four months…End article Sioux City Journal, February 15, 1873 - - - - - - - - - - The Marvin abortion case was taken before Judge Chase at Webster City, and the hearing resulted in the discharge of Dr. Phipps and Samuel Hughes, the latter the husband of the women. Sioux City Journal, June 15, 1873 
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