CHICAGO MURDER
TWO WOMEN CONVICTED “DEATH PENALTY TOO MERCIFUL” 180 YEARS IN PRISON (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.15 p.m.) 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, Ervin Lang. The Judge described the murder as one of the most horrifying in Chicago’s criminal annals. According to the prosecution Mrs Dunkel became enamoured of Lang after the death of Lang’s wife. She became jealous because Lang repulsed her attentions. Mrs Dunkel enlisted the aid of Mrs Smith to strangle Lang. After hacking the body to pieces they dumped the remains in a swamp.
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Southland Times, Issue 25359, 10 August 1935, Page 5
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