Title: Sigmund Engel Description: Swindler and bigamist Sigmund Engel (b. 1874), shown with Mrs. Pauline Langton, reunited in 1949 while Engel was at trial in Chicago, Illinois, on charges of bigamy and fraud; Engel claimed that Langton was his "one and only wife" Engel held the title for bigamously marrying more than 200 well-to-do middle aged women (mostly wealthy widows) throughout his long life, bilking, by his own estimate, more than $6 million from his romantic victims from 1917 to 1949, when he was brought to trial for fraud; he stated at that time: "Surely they can not punish me for loving women...I go for the fifty-seven varieties" Engel impersonate movie moguls, shipping magnates and British noblemen in his conquests of rich women; he was found guilty and, on November 9, 1949, was sentenced to two to ten years in prison at age seventy-five. Category: Crime Keywords: crime, criminal justice, criminology, law enforcement, bigamists, bilking, confidence games, fraud, swindlers, swindling Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2190 x 2759 (6.04 MPixels) (1.26) Print Size: 18.5 x 23.4 cm; 7.3 x 9.2 inches File Size: 17.31 MB (18,148,928 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001674 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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