Mrs. Ethel Nott's Moral Dilemma

By: David Churchwell

Narrated by: Sarah Kuklis

It's the 1920s.

It's the beginning of the jazz age in Bridgeport Connecticut. A horrible and tragic murder has taken place. A murder that was front page news nationwide.

As quickly as the murder of George Nott appeared in newspapers it vanished due to the privacy request of the families involved in the murder. This book tells the story of how Mrs. Nott escaped the gallows by sheer luck and having a somewhat feeble judge who was not interested in hanging a woman regardless of the facts. This story has a love triangle, mysterious trunks, and firemen searching through a swamp to find George Nott's body. The murderer causes a near riot in the courts by kissing Mrs. Nott while his wife is watching. Mrs. Nott wrote 50 love letters to Elwood while in jail, confessing in the letters how she was the ring leader of the murder. However, it turns out that her lover couldn't read. Which was a shock for Mrs. Nott at the end. This story has remained a secret from almost ninety years due to the families' desire for anonymity.

©2013 Damon Churchwell and Barton Churchwell (P)2026 Damon Churchwell