Title: Rosita Corrigan Description: The daughters of Rosita Corrigan with an attorney in 1949, where their mother was only one of dozens of women Sigmund Engel (b. 1874) married, reportedly bilking Corrigan out of her life savings; the Corrigan girls, along with their mother were then 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: Portrait Dimensions: 1890 x 2314 (4.37 MPixels) (1.22) Print Size: 16.0 x 19.6 cm; 6.3 x 7.7 inches File Size: 12.53 MB (13,139,118 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001688 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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