Title: Irene Grimes Description: Irene Grimes, one of the many wives of Sigmund Engel (b. 1874), another woman Engel married and mulcted in his long bigamous career; 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: Vertical Dimensions: 1230 x 2795 (3.44 MPixels) (2.27) Print Size: 10.4 x 23.7 cm; 4.1 x 9.3 inches File Size: 9.85 MB (10,324,960 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001702 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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