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Entered as second-class matter August
29th, 1923, at the Post Office at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. A'UCk 30, 1924
Leopold, Loeb and
Other Wierd, Grne
some Crimes, Chicago
Chicago. — Chicago has been the
scene of many weird and gruesome
crimes, like the Luetgert case, where
the husband boiled his wife to shreds
n aj sausage vat and was hanged be
cause he neglected to destroy her wed
ding ring and a tiny sesamoid bone
'rom one of her feet.
There was Johann Uoch, who spe
cialized in marrying widows with some
nsurance and killing them with a se
cret, deadly poison which he carried in
the-barrel of a fountain pen, By rub
ai ng this poison in the palm of the
hand, back of the cars or sdv moist
jpo* death would ensue in a few dayss
leaving no trace of the cause. Hocb
was,hanged because' he made a slight
si ip.in his work.
Herman Billik also specialized in
mar^viDg insured widows and poison
ing them, but his work was crude, and
be d|ied in prison.
Holmes, of infamous "Holmes Castle”
notqriety, maintained a four-story res
idence in Englewood. His specialty
was picking up orphan girls, chiefly
'rota remote states and with no one to
question their fate. He employed them
in his "castle,” insured their lives,
poisoned them and shot their bodies
Jow/i a long chute into a quicklime
bed.. But Holmes made the fatal error
pf operating in Philadelphia, where he
wac.cohvicted and hanged. It is esti
mated that he disposed of eighteen vic
iim$ in his Chicago "castle.”
These were great crimes in their day,
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Machine, Black
smith and]
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs O
Stoves Built
and Repaired
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Robt. E. Lowrie '
Tokotna," Alaska
but in none of them were all the prin
cipals the sons of multimillionaires,
powerfoi in political, business and so
cial circles.
Nathan Leopold, jr., 19 years old, and
a Pb. D. at 18, 'is the son of Nathan
Leopold, owner of the Manitqu steam
ship line and other enterprises, includ
ing a great box factory. His wealth is
conservatively estimated at $10,000,000.
Richard Loeb, fellow-student and fel
low-murderer with Leopold, is the son
of Albert H. Loeb, vice president of
Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose estate is
readily worth $10,000,000. All members
of the Loeb family are very wealthy.
Jacob Franks, fat her of the murdered
bov, is a retired broker, who could com
mand $4,000,000 easily, perhaps very
much more.
The cold-blooded attitude, of the
young murderers amazes all with whom
they have come in contact. Following
their confession they went in automo
biles,- under guard of a squad of detec
tives, and re-enacted the entire crime.
They drove to the point where the boy
was picked up from the street, struck
over the head with a padded chisel,
smothered in a robe and a cloth thrust
in his mouth. They indicated the point
where the discovery was made that the
boy was dead, five minutes after they
bad kidnapped him. Then they drove
around for a time, and finally took a
straight course to the Hegeswich
swamp. During this ride the murdered
boy was disrobed and his clothing
kicked into a bundle in the rear of the
car. At the swamp the young mur
derers showed how Loeb had remained
in the hired car while Leopold carried
the nude body of the boy to a large
culvert and thrust him into it. Had he
pushed the body a foot further into the
culvert, it is doubtful if the mystery
would ever have been solved, as they
had poured hydrochloric acid over the
boy’s face to destroy his features, and
the action of the swamp water soon
would have corroded the flesh from hie
bones. It would have been almost im
possible to identify the skeleton, as
suming that it ever would have been
found.
The cunning of the murderers and
the careful plans they had made for
the crime, which was conceived last
November, was shown in the fact that
Leopold had provided himself with
rubber boots to be used in carrying the
body into the swamp. Muddv shoes
might have afforded a clue, hut the
boots were washed after he emerged
from the swamp and this wiped out
that chance of discovery.
After the kidnaping and murder the
youthful criminals drove leisurely back
to the city, stopping at a remote point
to burn the bloody blanket lb which
the boy had been smothered.
Arriving at the Loeb residence, they
took the clothing of their victim to the
basement and burned it, but his shoes
and belt could not be Utterly destroyed,
so they were taken to the lake front
and buried. Then they washed the car
carefully of blood spots. The next day,
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
Iditarod, Alaska,^
LAWYERS
Practice in all Gourts.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
however, they discovered some spots
that had not teen wiped away, and
they went over the machine with me
ticulous care and eliminated every
trace of blood inside and out, before
returning the hired machine to its
garage.
This machine, by the way, was an
exact duplicate of Leopold’s own
Willys-Knight. The use of a hired
machine proved one of the fatal Paws
in their otherwise porfect alibi, They
were supposed to have been riding
around all afternoon and evening in
Leopold’s car, but by the merest chance
a reporter interviewed the chief garage
man at the Leopold residence and
found that Leopold’s car had been in
the garage all that day and evening,
undergoing repairs.
The next step in perfecting their
alibi was the destruction of the port
able typewriter upon which Leopold
had written the letter to Franks de
manding 810,000 ransom and assuring
him his boy was safe and would be re
turned unharmed i? the money wa9
forthcoming. The keys of tho type
writer were broken off and they, with
the framework, were thrown into Lake
Michigan at various points.
And during the entire journey nei
ther of the murderers displayed the
slightest remorse. Not a hint of sym
pathy for the distracted parents or
their victim or the agonv being suf
fered by their own parents and friends
over the fiendish crime.
“Anything is justifiable in the inter
ests of science,” said Leopold, and that
is the attitude of both. The “interests
of science” that were to be served in
this case was to note the reactions,
mental, sexual aDd physical, of a human
being, a helpless boy, dying under the
particular methods of death they had
planned to employ.
Miss Jane Addarrs, of Hull House,
who is being talked of for the Nobel
peace prise, said ip a recent address:
“Some women go iu for men's work
without men’s training. A motor po
liceman held up a woman automobilist
on a country road the other day.
“‘Madam,’ he said, ‘this won’t do.
You were going at the rate of 55 miles
an hour.’
“The woman automobilist laughed
sarcastically.
“‘Dear me” she said. ‘So I was
going 55 miles an hour, was 1? Well,
Mr. Policeman, 1 want you to know
this. I haven’t been out half an hour
yet. Ha, ha, ha”
“The policeman touched his cap hur
riedly.
“‘Passon, madam,’he said. ‘That’s
a new excuse on me.’ ”
FIRE!
You folks work mighty
hard for your living.
Why Take Chances
When Insurance
Is So Cheap?
Wire me collect if you want
protection.
San Francisco is headquar
ters for all companies
on Pac'ififc Coast.
Maurice A. Gale
General -Insurance
38 Sansome Street
San Francisco
Bobbing- of Hair Wife’s
Business, Says Court
Chicago.—-“Times have changed,”
said Judge Burke today, in ruling on a
domestic squabble. “It is now one of
woman’s inalienable rights to vote. A
person capable of voting must be pre
sumed capable o' choosing a hair cut. ”
The court then put Jacob Silverman
under peace bonds. Silverman’s wife,
who is 32 year’s old, treated herself to
a King Tut bob yesterday, and when
she arrived home Jacob expressed his
disapproval by striking her.
“I wouldn’t mind a plain bob,” plead
ed Silverman, “but she is old enough
to know better than to get one of these
here King Tut’s.”
“It’s her own hair,” said the court.
“She can do what she pleases with it.”
Old McFadd—Do you collect any
thing?
Young Smart—-I collect my thoughts
occasionally.
Old McFadd—The specimens you get
are undoubtedly rare.—Boston Tran
script. _ _
“Did the speaker electrify his audi
ence?”
“No; he merely gassed it.”—William-1
ette Collegian. j j.
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& Eldridge
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