DEATH PENALTY
DECLARED TOO MERCIFUL WOMEN’S TERRIBLE CRIME 180 YEARS’-IMPRISONMENT [By Telegraph—-Press Association—Copyright) •CHICAGO, Aug. 8. i Declaring that the death penalty was too merciful. Judge Cornelius Harrington to-day sentenced Mrs. Blauche Dunkel and Mrs. Evelyn Smith to LBD years’ imprisonment each for the murder of Dunkel’s former son-in-law, I'rvin Lang. The Judge described the murder as one of the most horrifying in Chicago’s criminal annals. According to the prosecution Airs. Dunkel became enamoured of Lang after the death of Lang’s wife. Jealous because Lang repulsed her attentions, Mrs. Dunkel enlisted the aid <>f Mrs. .Smith to strangle Lang. After hacking the body to pieces they dumped the remains in a >wamp.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 186, 10 August 1935, Page 9
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