Louis Landy, 50, was a well-known "free lance" (independent) cab driver who frequented Winnipeg's two railway stations, the CPR station on Higgins Avenue and the Union (CNR) station on Main Street. He was married with a four-year-old boy. After spending Sunday, October 25 in his cab Mr. Landy came home about supper time and took his wife and son for a 20-minute ride. After supper he drove to Union Station to wait for more fares. At about 6:40 p.m. taxi driver William Stanley, who was parked immediately behind Mr. Landy, saw a man get into Mr. Landy's Oldsmobile. Stanley did not get a clear view of the man's face but he distinctly remembered his peculiar, shambling gait. At 9:30 p.m. Stanley noticed that Mr. Landy still hadn't returned to the stand. At seven o'clock Monday morning a farmhand on his way to work discovered Mr. Landy's car parked on the East Kildonan road (now Henderson Highway) about 11 kilometres north of the Winnipeg city limits. Mr. Landy's blood soaked body was still clutching the steering wheel. He had been bludgeoned to death from behind. The car headlights were still on and the engine had apparently continued running until the gas tank was empty. The murder weapon, an iron bar, was lying beside the car. Mr. Landy had several convictions for bootlegging and at first the provincial police thought that he might have been killed by rival bootleggers. On Monday the Winnipeg police arrested a 19-year-old man for the theft of an overcoat a week earlier from a local cafe. The man had a gold watch in his possession which was later identified as belonging to Mr. Landy. Fingerprints on the murder weapon, blood on the man's clothes and his own multiple confessions led to his conviction for Mr. Landy's murder. The man claimed that Mr. Landy had become irate when he learned that his fare had no money and threatened to "break his neck". Supposedly the argument led to a fight in which Mr. Landy was killed, although the position of Mr. Landy's body suggested that the attack came as a surprise.

"Union Station, Winnipeg, Man." [1920s; detail of postcard]. (Source: Rob McInnes collecton WP0383, Winnipeg Public Library, Winnipeg PastForward: Winnipeg's Digital Public History) The killer was convicted of murder on November 24, 1925 and sentenced to death. He had chewed gum through his trial and took no apparent interest in the proceedings but he broke down when the sentence was pronounced. He made a long, rambling statement in which he blamed an unnamed accomplice for the murder, contradicting his earlier confessions that he had acted alone. The killer was hanged on February 9, 1926 in company with another man convicted of killing a Winnipeg storekeeper. This man died instantly when the trap was sprung but Mr. Landy's killer "took longer to die", suggesting that his execution, like several other Canadian executions, was bungled.