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Dorothy Sherwood
Dorothy Sherwood (born 1908) was a burlesque dancer and Salvation Army worker who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing her two-year-old son.〔
==Early life and marriage==
Sherwood was born in St. Louis, Missouri.〔''American Mother May Escape Electric Chair'', ''San Antonio Light'', April 5, 1936, pg. 18.〕 She was the third child of a Scotch-Irish foundry worker.〔 Her father was married six times and Sherwood was the daughter of his third wife.〔 One of her older siblings died at eighteen months and another at five years of age. Sherwood's mother died when she was nine and she was placed in an orphanage. Salvation Army work,〔 in 1925,〔 followed her period in the orphanage.〔 As a ''lassie'', she wore a red-ribboned bonnet. In this endeavor she sang gospel hymns in six southern cities for approximately three years.〔''Even A Death Verdict Didn't Explain Why the Showgirl Drowned Her Baby'', ''Fresno Bee'' ''The Republican'', February 16, 1936, pg. 37.〕 From this job she moved on to dance in burlesque.〔
One day she saw an ad offering employment in show business to girls with ''fair singing voices''. She answered the ad and went to work in Chicago, Illinois.〔 In burlesque she never achieved the prominence of a stripper. Instead she was always in the back row in the chorus. She married a stage hand, James Sherwood, the electrician of the burlesque company. Her marriage was conducted as a publicity stunt before an audience of burlesque fans during a regular performance. James was from a poor family in Newburgh, New York, a Hudson River town.
When the company broke up, the couple returned to Newburgh. There James found sporadic work as a motion picture operator and Sherwood was employed as a waitress. Their daughter, then age seven, resided with his mother. At that time their other child, Jimmy, was an infant. James had tuberculosis and died in a sanitarium in New York. Afterward Sherwood became engaged to a minor politician and dry county agent. When she lost her job the engagement was broken. Her landlady evicted her when she could not afford the room and board.〔
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