San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-02
WOMAN ADMITS
PLOT TO STAY
I AGED NATE
Sweetheart and Two Other
Men Implicated in
i, Love Confession.
By A. J. LORENZ
slvsrssl Service Staff Correspondent.


Univcrsai Service Staff Correspondent.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9.-Albert Nuss-
baum, wealthy contractor, was slain
in love plot Matched by his aged
wife and three other men, whom the
historical widow named in a confess
sion to the authorities, unequaled in
recent police annals.
Edward Golf, whom Mrs. Nuss-
baum named as one of the plotters,
confessed to the actual Staying.
Golf declared he aud his cousin,
Marion Stringham, kidnapped Nuss-
baum. While Stringham covered the
aged man with his revolver, Golf de-
clared he himself struck him over the
head with club, the authorities an
nounced.
The two carried the body to the
Nussbaum garage and when darkness
fell conveyed it to the prairie where
it was found at dawn.
MEN ARE ARRESTED.
Golf and Stringham and John Wal
ton VIM, 45-year-old sutton of Mrs.
Nussbaum, are in custody. VIM and
Mrs. Nussbaum used the apartment
occupied by Stringham and Golf, both
% years old, as their trysting place.
The 65-year-old contractors body
was found in snowdrift in lonely
prairie, his skull crushed in. The
scene was not far from the place
where the body of Bobby Franks was
found.
"Albert wasn't dying fast enough,
Mrs. Nussbaum declared after telling
of her love affair with Vim.
"We planned that Stringham, Ed
Golf and VIM were to get the old
man while he was coming home. beat
him up, and then take him and hide
him out in the prairie.
"Stringham was to get our car out
OF the garage and use it to carry the
body away.
TELLS OF PLOT.
"At the last minute 1 tried to back
out, but they wouldn't.
II refused to go along.
"Wben 1 came home last night my
husband was not there and / knew
that they had done it."
VIM and the woman, his senior
by 20 years, planned to marry after
she had obtained her husbands money.
Nussbaum was considered wealthy,
owning half dozen apartment build
ings as well as prosperous contract
ing business.
Nussbaumis body was found half
hidden in snow bank short dis
lance from a huge bonfire in which
were found charred bits Of towels and
two women's dresses in which the
authorities believe the body Of the
man had been wrapped. A canvas
glove lay nearby. A balf-burned
shawl was identified as belonging to
Mrs. Nussbaum.
The body, with the skull crushed
in, had been dressed in new suit
Of clothes with all Identification
marks removed.
IDENTIFIED BY BOY.
Soon after its discovery, Lloyd
Nussbaum, grandson of the slain
man, came 10 the morgue and identi-
fled the body as that Of the elder
Nussbaum.
in the automobile which he drove
were found part of a human skull
bone and Lloyd was taken into Gus
tody for questioning.
Whether or not the 19-year-old
youth gave the authorities the clew
on which his grandmother was qiies-
toned to the point Of her confession,
the authorities would not reveal.
Chief of Police Collins, however,
declared that he believed the boy
had been shielding his grandmother"
in the replies he had given to the
authorities.
The youth, who for a time made
his home with his grandparents, had
been driven from home by the slain
man, 1t was revealed, about month
ago.
FOUND TAKING" DIARY.
When Mrs. Nussbaum was taken
into custody for questioning she was
found writing series Of postdated
notes in diary form, purporting to
be a record of domestic troubles in
the Nussbaum home, detectives re-
veaIed.
Roscoe ,Nussbaum, father Of Lloyd.
told the authorities his mother had
been friendly with VIM for thirteen
years, and believed he had seen the
two together within the past week.
Mrs. Nussbaum stoutly denied this,
stating that she had not seen VIM,
a man of no particular occupation,
in two years.
Suddenly she broke down and de-
clared that che had seen him recent
ly and had given him money.
As detectives sought to question her
further, she tainted.
On recovering consciousness she be-
came hysterical and n few minutes
later made complete confession of
the plot to slay her husband to OBJ
tain his money and marry VIM.
LETTER TELLS PLOT.
A letter, written by Mrs. Nuss-
baum TO VIM and found on him
when he was arrested at Crown Point,
Ind, revealed the calm planning of
the deed in which Golf and Stringham
became accompIices.
The letter, dated December 26,
reads:
Il don't want to be in the house
when it happens. I am woman, you
know. Tell him you want to see me
and l will be over. Play holdup, and
when you get him, ransack through
the house, in the dresser drawers aud
tear everything up and down. And