Title: Mildred Mary Bolton Description: Mildred Mary Bolton (1886-1943), who, after her husband, Charles W. Bolton, Jr., filed for a divorce, went to his Chicago office on June 11, 1936, and shot him six times, standing over him and saying to him as he lay dying in agony: "Why don't you get up and stop faking?" she was originally sentenced to death in the electric chair, but Governor Henry Horner commuted her sentence to 199 years at the women's penitentiary in Dwight, Illinois, where she died on August 29, 1943, having slashed her wrists with a stolen pair of scissors. Category: Crime Keywords: crime, criminal justice, criminology, law enforcement, homicides, murders, poisonings Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2220 x 2819 (6.26 MPixels) (1.27) Print Size: 18.8 x 23.9 cm; 7.4 x 9.4 inches File Size: 17.93 MB (18,797,318 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001213 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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