MURDER BY WOMEN
ONE OF CHICAGO’S WORST FREAK SENTENCE PASSED [by cable—press assn.-—copyright.] CHICAGO, August 8. Declaring that the death penalty was too merciful, Judge Cornelius Harrington to-day sentenced Mrs. Blanche Dunkel and Mrs. Evelyn Smith to 180 years’ imprisonment each for the murder of .Mrs. Dunkel’S former son-in-law, Erwin Lang. The judge described the. murder as having been one of the most horrifying murders in Chicago’s criminal annals. According to the prosecution Mrs. Dunkel became enamoured of Erwin Lang after the death of Lang's wife. She became jealous because Lang repulsed her attentions. Mrs. Dunkel then enlisted the aid of Mrs. Smith to strangle Lang. After hacking his body to pieces, they dumped his remains in a. swamp./
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1935, Page 7
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