CHICAGO MURDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1926, Page 8

CHICAGO MURDER

WOMAN AND CONVICT LOVER, In the forty-four years of their married life, her 65-year-old paralytic husband bought her ice cream once, while John Walton Winn, former convict, loved her and waited fifteen years for him to die. This was the defence of Mrs Eliza Nusbaum, a 58-year-old grandmother, in a confession she made to the Chicago police of plotting with Winn and three others to kill her husband, Albert, whose body was found on a South Side prairie. Winn, at a pistol’s point, compelled Edward Goff to kill Nusbaum with an axe, Goff said in a confession. With two pairs of ice tongs, Winn and Goff hauled the body into the attic of the home of Dlrs Delilah Martin, who was held by the police as an accessory. After supper they redressed the body, loaded it into Nusbaum’s sedan and carried it to the prairie, abandoning plans to burn the house or bury the*' body in the backyard. Winn was arrested in Crown Point, Indiana, and brought to Chicago. Goff, Mrs Martin, and Marion Stringham, whose clothes were used to garb the body, were also held. First accusations against the grandmother came from her oldest son, Roscoe. His son, Lloyd, aged 20, was

then under arrest after the police found a part of the grandfather’s skull and bloodstains in an automobile Lloyd was driving. In efforts to shield his son, Roscoe told of the love affair of fifteen years’ duration between his mother and Winn. She gave Winn 250 dollars a month of his father’s money. Roscoe said, and once his father shot Winn through the head. Unemotionally and without regret, Mrs Nusbaum told how she and Winn had planned for a long time to kill her husband after a stroke of paralysis had failed to be fatal. A fragmentary diary, in which she expressed fear that her husband would kill her, was found in her purse when arrested. Several months, ago she told tile police she had persuaded her husband to put the title to his property, valued at about 50,000 dolars, in joint tenancy with her, so that it would pass to her at his death. A letter which the police said was written by Mrs Nusbaum was found on Winn when arrested. Officers prevented his efforts to destroy it. It contained what the police called reference to the slaying plot, as: “I don’t want to be in the house when it happens. I’m a woman, you know. . . . Play Holdup, and when you get him ransack through the house and tear everything up and down. I hate to do it, but it must be either you, or me or him. This will be a pretty good scheme, providing it goes off as a holdup or robbery.”