An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago
by
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
An Italian immigrant who spoke little English and struggled to scrape together a living on her primitive family farm outside Chicago, Sabella Nitti was arrested in 1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two months, she was found guilty and became the first woman ever sentenced to hang...