The Murder Of The Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized A City & Sparked The Tabloid Wars - Plot & Excerpts
THE HIGH ROLLER WHEN THE DELIVERYMAN SHAMBLED unannounced into the district attorney’s office on Centre Street, it wasn’t to drop off a package. I’m going to tell you everything, Herman Nack told the astounded prosecutor. Assistant DA Ed Mitchell hastily sent for a stenographer as he guided the gruff bakery employee into his office. Clutching his battered homburg, Herman Nack was none too pleased at spending a day off on anything besides beer or bowling, but Gussie’s World interview had been nagging at him. “She said lots of bad things about me,” he groused. “I wanted to tell what I knew about her just to get square.” Herman was a man ill used by the case: attacked in the street by Journal reporters, briefly jailed as the prime suspect, his failed marriage paraded before the nation. Now the World was calling him a vicious brute. He’d just wanted to be left alone, but after biting his tongue for two months, he could keep silent no more. Still, he insisted he didn’t want to get into any trouble.
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