January 31, 1924 – Madison, WI – Unsolved
Louis Lotwin, a Jewish laborer who had moved back to Madison only a month before, was shot at Death
Corner in a dispute over his job. At 5 a.m. he was walking to his stableman’s job at the Sinaiko
Brothers Fuel Company when a man passed him in the street, then turned and fired four shots. Lotwin
died on February 10 from blood poisoning without identifying his assailant.
One of the
Death Corner Murders
Louis Lotwin is
interred at Forest Hill Cemetery
