Title: Rosita Corrigan Description: Rosita Corrigan, right, is shown arriving by plane in Chicago; she was one of the wives of swindler and bigamist Sigmund Engel (b. 1874), who took her life savings; Corrigan, shown in 1949, attended 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: 1710 x 2200 (3.76 MPixels) (1.29) Print Size: 14.5 x 18.6 cm; 5.7 x 7.3 inches File Size: 10.78 MB (11,303,826 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001692 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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