Winters' Time talk at the Bennington Museum

Jeffrey Amestoy, author of Winters' Time: A Secret Pledge, a Severed Head, and the Murder That Brought America's Most Famous Lawyer to Vermont will speak at the Bennington Museum in Bennington on October 18th. 

In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters on suspicion of the crime, and the trial that followed was sensational and swift.

Convicted of murder, Winters’ appeal brought in an unexpected ally: America’s most famous defense attorney, Clarence Darrow, who took the case after Winters’ family called in a favor promised decades before.

The talk is presented by the Bennington Historical Society and is sponsored by Nexus Consulting. You can find more details here.