Winters' Time: A Secret Pledge, a Severed Head, and the Murder That Brought America's Most Famous Lawyer to Vermont Molly Griffin One of The Atlantic’s Great

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Winters' Time: A Secret Pledge, a Severed Head, and the Murder That Brought America's Most Famous Lawyer to Vermont Molly Griffin One of The Atlantic’s GreatBy: Jeffrey L. Amestoy Published by Vermont Historical Society, 2025 09 16 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: Americas most famous