Eva Dugan, 1930 February 21

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DUGAN,, Eva

Mrs. Dugan, a |\9~year-old white woman, had a varied and checkered
career that carried her from a dance hall girl in the Yukon in her
youth through various cri alias capers during which she was almost
sent to the-penitentiary in several states, Married no less than
five times, she was arrested SRXBUBSISEGR in Varthace, “oe, on sus-
picion of having murdered weal 7

1 a papal ;
thy VV am rhe Cy vVLoOs ¥ who she had marric¢ ed
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five months See anans » but. was subsequently released for lack’ of
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evidence when Cross's body could not be found.
Ve vadan: ‘named Kemden disappeared and she was suspected of
murdered him, but once again no body was found. +n the fall of
1926; she accepted employment as the housekeepe: wy Tor an elderly
wealthy Tucson, o AVIZs rancher , Andrew d, Mathis. On the mornin
Jan. Lh ; 1927, Mathis who was. to have gone to the: bank that day to
make a sizeable deposit and Mrs, MAXKX# ANE Dugan were both reported
ma Subsequently, posing as Mathis' wife, she sold his automo-
a used car dealer in +-ansas City » Moe and dropped out of
we was taken into custody: on “eb, 20, in “hi ter Plains
had obtained employment as a housekeeper in a hospital
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career .ed her from a dance e Yukon in
youth t which she was almost
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1onths previously, but: was pubsequently relea
lence “oss's body could not be found. An
named Kemden diss ppeared and she wa
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1926, she accepted employment as the |! housekeep
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Eva Dugan executed on 1930-02-21 in Arizona (AZ)
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