It appears that Dr. John Doy also lost favor in public opinion and may have met an ignominious end. According to a June 8, 1869 article in the Detroit Advertiser (reprinted in the June 10, 1869 New York Times), Dr. Doy attempted suicide in a Michigan jail after being convicted of being an abortionist. He was apparently not very well liked in his new locale, with this newspaper article describing him as a “notoriously profane and wicked man.”