and sentenced to 15 years. She was released in 1917, and returned to the U.S. Later years By the 1920s, she was living in Detroit and had become destitute. No longer young, she was reduced to propositioning men on the streets and was repeatedly arrested for soliciting and common prostitution. She hoped to make money from her former notoriety by writing magazine articles and an autobiography with the help of a journalist, which was published in 1928 as Chicago May, Her Story, by the Queen of Crooks. Her former lover Guerin published his own life story at the same time, under the title I Was a Bandit. She died in 1929 at the age of 59. References Further reading Fictionalised book..Chicago May by Harry Duffin, self published by Spiderwize copyright 2010. King, Betty Nygaard. Hell Hath No Fury: Famous Women in Crime. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 2001. , . 1871 births 1929 deaths Irish female criminals People from County Longford People from Chicago People from Detroit American prostitutes