Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-15 | Page 3 | Hammer Slayer Dies on Gallows

HAMMER SlA SLAYER UR DIES ON GAllOWS J J. J w W W. Winn Writes Last N Note te to Grandma His Accomplice CHICAGO April 15 John AP P John Walton alton Winn 40 year old earold hammer slayer of the elderly contractor Al Albert Albert Albert Al- Al bert Nusbaum was hanged today One of ot his last acts acts' was to write a farewell note to Grandma Eliza Ell Nusbaum who is serving a life sentence sentence sentence sen sen- tence to for fop 1 complicity in her herlus hus husbands husband's bus lus bands band's murder In another note he reiterated his In Innocence I don dont don't t know who killed Nusbaum Nusbaum Nus Nus- baum but I know I did not he hew w wrote rote Winn spent the greater part of the night with a a. a Salvation Army officer Winn told reporters he did not believe some of these old old- fashioned things about religion He thought his spirit would return to help mother The latter term he applied always Iwas to Mrs Nusbaum WInn who Warden Varden Fogarty said was the c calmest nian man who ever occupied the death cell went to his hia death without Jt an any display of emotion emo emotion emo emo- tion Albert Nusbaum was killed the state charged because he was the he obstacle to the marriage ge of the of-the the ag aging sing s- s gIng ing grandma and th the y-oun y younger er erVinn Winn Vinn He also carried considerable I insurance e which the plotters hoped lo to collect I WInn in his note to grandma grandm I tires laid the c crime ime at the door of three others others Airs D Delilah ah Martin In whose house the murder took place and her two men lodgers Edwin Goff and Marion Marlon These three w who ho turned states state's s evidence at Winns Winn's trial are serving prison sentences I