In the execution chamber of the State Prison at Florence, Ariz., hangs a row of 16 pictures of murderers executed there. Around each picture is looped the noose in which the criminal died. Last week prison attendants added a 17th picture and a 17th rope, thereby memorializing the picture of Mrs. Eva Dugan, 52, first woman executed in Arizona.*
Once Mrs. Dugan was a cabaret entertainer in Juneau, Alaska. In 1927 she was a housekeeper for an aged rancher at Tucson, Ariz. Apparently hoping to get his property, she murdered him, buried his body in...
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