WOMEN: Frustratress

Mildred Dunn, pretty, 21-year-old Chicago divorcée, is either the most virtuous, the most ingenious, the most devilishly coy or the most imaginative woman to appear in a law court in many a day. Last week, to an astonished Chicago court, she testified in her sister's divorce case that last year she had frustrated her brother-in-law, a radio engineer, in almost 200 attempts to rape her.

Mildred slept on a cot in the same room with her sister and brother-in-law. "Every other night, when his wife was asleep, he would come to my bed and try to get in beside me. ....

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