A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana:

The Tragic Betrayal of Nettie Diamond

• Author(s): Jane Simon Ammeson,
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Pages: 160
• ISBN_10: 1626194785
  ISBN_13: 9781626194786
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws , History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Law / Legal History , Photography / Subjects & Themes / Historical , True Crime / Murder / General ,

Description:... Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed. Her suitor, Harry Diamond, was a dashing young bootlegger a decade and a half her junior. At first she resisted his advances, but soon the two were married with an infant daughter. Disinterested in a domestic life, Diamond shot Nettie on Valentine's Day 1923 while riding in their Hudson sedan. He tried to pin the crime on the fleeing chauffeur, but Diamond made a mistake. Though mortally wounded, Nettie lived long enough to identify her attacker to police and change her will. The sensational Diamond murder became tabloid fodder--a Roaring Twenties story of roadhouse floozies, illegal booze, orphaned children, trust funds and legal acrobatics.