Leopold and Loeb and
Some Terrible Crimes
Charged Against Them
Chicago. — Following the positive
Identification of Leopold and Loeb as
»he men who kidnapped Charles Ream,
took him to the lonely prairie and per
fiormed an operation on him. authori
ties today made considerable headway
f.n linking up the murderers of young
Franks with the slaving of Freeman
Louis Tracey, a law student at the Uni
versity of Chicago, a classmate of both
the slayers, and with the mysterious
murder ef Melvin L. Wolf, who started
firom the home of his wealthy grand
fiat her on the evening of April 7 to mail
t» letter a few feet frrm the residence
and dropped completely out of >iglit.
Later the body was ..taken from the
Hake.
The Tracey case is being brought
•cl oser to Leopold and Loeb with every
•development. That was a case of at
tempted gland robbery, but Tracey re
misled so strenuously that the kidnap,
•ers killed him.
Meanwhile the prosecuting attorney
sand his forces were busy building up
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$2o,000,000 and all the lega 1 trickery
this wealth can command. All wit
nesses in the Franks murder are being
taken before the grand jury and their
sworn statements taken. Later, if they
change their stories, they me to be
prosecuted for perjury, it is freely
predicted that efforts will be made to
j spirit away principal witnesses or in
duce them to repudiate their testimony
when the ease comes to trial.
Leopold and Loeb are not required
to eat the plain but wholesome prison
food. With their immense wealth they
are able to send out to a high cluss res- j
taurant or hotel and have their favor
ite dishes sent in. with cut glass, silver
and dainty napery. Each lias a cell
mate a notorious robber. Hotb com
plain of the ‘•creepy” atmosphere of
the jail and the foul air.j poisoned hy
the bodies of criminals and the disin
fectants.
Leopold, who boasted that lie had no
fear of death, is cr inging his attitude
somewhat. His cell is within two
doors of Lite death chamber where the
state ^pledges itself to send him and
Loeb. “I am not afraid of death,” tie
still maintains—•‘but—-but not the gal -
l lows, if you please.”
‘•J had a plan, if things got too hot
j for me,” Leopold said, "but neglected
| it too long. i intended to have ten
powders made up, nine containing just
ordinary soda, and one which .1 planned
| to mark with a tiny cross, was to carry
arsenic. I knew they’d pick me up
I sooner or later, but I eouul have talked
i myself out of any tnuss hud it not been ;
j for that chump, Loeb. We would have \
been all right this time if that poor j
fool had not dropped my glasses as he i
was carrying my coat.”
Ream, the mutilated chauffeur, is!
! positive in his identification of Leopold
and Loeb.
•‘Do you think 1 could forget the
faces of the men who have taken so
much out of my life?” he asked.
"I was walking along the strefet
somewhere between 54th street and
54th place, when an automobile slid
silently up to the curb. It scared me;
it came so silently. I heard a sharp
command. ‘Hands up!’ a young man
Leon G. Loomis
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
At Reasonable Hours
Mrs. Robert E. Lowrie
shouled. It was Leopold. He had a
pistol. "Get in the our,' was the next
order. 1 obeyed. I was scared.
“I entered t he car. The pistol was I
pressed against my'stomach. I pot. a
pond clear look at both men. Their
faces were stamped upon my mind,|
“Well, they had everything planned,
just as they did in the Franks case. [
was ordered to turn around in the seat, ■
to put my head 'o the corner of the car j
and to put tny .antis behind my buck. !
instantly the coils of a sfnall rope went I
around my wrists. Then a pap was j
pushed mm my mouth and a rope was!
tied around my head, holding the pap |
linn. In another moment a bandage
was slapped over my eyes. It was made |
secure. Then the beams of a 1'ashlipht
fell upon my cheeks as toey made sure
the blindfold was secure.
“I was flopped into the bottom of the
car and a blanket, or some heavy piece 1
of cloth was spread out. Then 1 de
tected the odor of ether. 1 knew what
was coming. J have been around hos
pitals. The odor prew stronger—J
dropped oil to sleep.
“When 1 awakened, about three
hours later, J was on tile prairie near
109th street and Avenue G. That is
within a mile u; where Hubert Franks’
body was found, and it is near a culvert
and a railroad track. My clothes were !
half removed. The thing had hap- |
pened. i was id (treat pain. ,t man-j
SL.'Jfftfl f.n 11, n r> <» r* h v twiii.o i r
notify the residents. They were; .: :ght- j
ened, perhaps by the blood, and or
dered me away. I staggered ou to the ‘
next house, where they look me in and
called the cab • unpany, which sent an
ambulance at once.”
Again the lad hesitated, He was seif
conscious, hesitant about disc . •. ng 1
the mutilation.
"1 didn’t know the extent of 'he
mutilation until two weeks later,” he
said.;
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to the alarm trigger was a steel spring,
which also was hooked to the gas jet.
The alarm bell was taken off. When
the alarm trigger was released, the gas
was turned on by the steel spring, an d
Dornfleld nerer awoke.
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