Title: Rosita Corrigan Description: Rosita Corrigan, sitting center, tearfully explains to police women how swindler and bigamist Sigmund Engel (b. 1874), took her life savings; she is shown in 1949 while attending Engel's trial in Chicago, Illinois, where he faced charges of bigamy and fraud; 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: Landscape Dimensions: 2460 x 1881 (4.63 MPixels) (1.31) Print Size: 20.8 x 15.9 cm; 8.2 x 6.3 inches File Size: 13.25 MB (13,897,054 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001687 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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