    
Title: Dorothy King Description: Dorothy King (Dorothy Keenan; AKA: Dot; 1896-1923), American actress and showgirl (she had appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies), who was found mysteriously murdered by her maid; she had been beaten and chloroformed to death; J. Kearsley Mitchell, a multi-millionaire and social gadfly who topped the Philadelphia 400 list, dmitted that he had been supporting King for some time, and had been with her the whole day on March 14, leaving the apartment at 2:30 the next morning. Police dismissed him as a suspect, but he was ruined socially in Philadelphia; other suspects included business tycoons, and gangsters such as Alberto Santos Guimares (d. 1953), but all had iron-clad alibis and investigators never pinpointed the King's killer; actors; flappers; flaming youth; homicides; Jazz Age; Location: New York, New York, March 15, 1923 Keywords: murders, Roaring Twenties, showgirls, unsolved crimes Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1375 (1.65 MPixels) (1.15) Print Size: 10.2 x 11.6 cm; 4.0 x 4.6 inches File Size: 4.73 MB (4,955,730 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000096037 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
