    
Title: Mrs. Pauline Langton Description: Mrs. Pauline Langton in 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, while attending the trial of her bigamous husband, Sigmund Z. Engel, who was charged with 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: 1200 x 1608 (1.93 MPixels) (1.34) Print Size: 10.2 x 13.6 cm; 4.0 x 5.4 inches File Size: 5.53 MB (5,795,458 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001675 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
