HORRIFYING CRIME.
JUDGE CALLS DEATH PENALTY TOO MERCIFUL MAN MURDERED BY TWO WOMEN IN CHICAGO. (Received Friday, 8.5 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 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 and was jealous because Lang repulsed her attentions. Mrs. Dunkel enlisted the aid of Mrs. Smith to strangle Lang. After hacking his body to pieces they dumped the remains jn a swamp.
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Wairarapa Age, 10 August 1935, Page 5
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