Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09
|. LEOPOLD IS CAPTURED.
ARRESTED AND AD-
MITS HIS IDENTITY TO
THE POLICE.
READY TO FACE TRIAL.
Gets Drunk, Puts Plugs in Slot Machine,
BragS and Is Locked il
Jail.

WAUSAU. Wis, Nov. 2.-[SpeciaLi
Leonard Leopold, accused of being the
accompiice OF Howard e. Nicholas, in
the murder and robbery Of Airs. Mar
Garet Leslie at the Palace Hotel III Chi
cago, October IS, was arrested here last
night
lie has admitted his identity and
awaits the coming of n Chicago officer
to take linn back to trial. He says that
he was ready to 90 back and that he is
tired Of eyading the officers.
How He Was Caught.
Leopold reached this city Tuesday
night, having come from Maukato,
Mimi. and registered at the Hotel
Northern as George HanIy" of Man
teiIo. MINI. That night and Wednesday
night he slept at the hotel, spending the
evening on the west side of the city.
Wednesday night he was caught putting
slugS into a slot machine, and held i'll
custody for q short time by a special Of
ticer, but was allowed to go.
Nothing is known of his movements
during Thursday, but in the evening he
was noticed to have been drinking, and
in an unguarded moment told Police
Commissioner Frank Heinrich that he
was wanted somewhere for some crime.
Mr. Heinrich told a policeman and a mo-
ment or two later Leopold was arrested.
He was taken to the city hall and denied
that he was Leopold. The chief of POI
lice threatened to bring his relatives to
identify him, and then Leopold said:
Il am Leopold. and the man they are
looking for"
Valuable Clues Found.
He was searched and miscellaneous
lot of articles was found i'll his pockets
He had $l.2O III cash, an LlkS lodge
PIN, IallWay ticket IRON Lake Crystal
to Mankato, cigarette papers, a drug
5Ist ) KHife, I Scapula, Il fountain pen,
and bunch of keys.
The most important thing found was
q note book from which several pages
had been torn. On the first OF the re
naming pages was note addressed 20
6. 4. owen, Chicago, which reads:
This will introduce Mr.. Warren, a
good friend OF mine. If you help him
out with some conductor you will do me
Il great favor"
The note was signed Billy Dowd.
On the second page was a note ad
dressed to viii Mann signed Nellie"
This reads:
This man is a friend of mine. If you
can square him with some good conuuc-
tor gong out west it will be appreciated
by me-"
Leopold strenuously denies any connec-
ton with the murder of Mrs. Leslie. He
Nicholas came to him and asked him to
dispose OF some diamonds.
Has Close Shave
To do this he went to place on
State street, but the pawnbroker threat
Cned to call an officer and, he said Il
got out and have been getting out ever
since"
Leopold says tbat after leaving Chi
cago he went to Iowa, and then north
to Jr1na nd rn " n,
While Oh Il train in Iowa the train was
searched and Il man sitting in the next
scat to him was arrested and taken
from the train on suspicion OF being
Leopold. Owing to this incident he
hurried out of the state.
The Chicago police were notified Of
the arrest OF Leopold, and word WAS
received that a detective would be here
some time today TO take him to Chicago.
1t was not thought that he would make
any tight TO avoid being returned TO
Chicago.
Chicago Police Informed
CHICAGO, Ill.,. Nov. 1.-The chief
of police today received Il dispatch from
the police of Wausaw, Wis, saying that
Leonard Leopold had been arrested III
that place.
The local police were informed by
long distance telephone that the man ar
rested in Wausau is Leopold without
question. He was taken into custody
last night and Il short time after his ar
rest made a confession of his share in
the murder of Mrs. Margaret Leslie. An
officer was at once dispatched to Wau-
sau to bring Leopold to this city.
Betrayed by His Pal.
On October n Howard E. Nicholas
confessed that he and Leonard Leopold
registered pharmacist, aged % years
murdered Mrs. Margaret Leslie, an act
ress, i'll her apartments at the Palace
hotel and then robbed the body of level
ry valued at $1,000.
Without losing control Of his nerve
Nicholas began the narration of the muir
Ger and robbery i'll such a Straightf0r-
ward and pertunctory manner that even
the police officials were staggered. Mich
OaS had been unusually attentive to
Mrs. Leslie, despite her protestations.
The night Of the murder Nicholas as
Certaincd that Mrs. Leslie had gone to
her apartments, and then he and Leo
pold uScended the stairs to the fourth
floor by different ways, reaching the
door Of room 40I, soon after Mrs. Leslie
had gone to the bedroom. Opening the
door, the two men secretcd themselves
in Il closet and awaited the return of the
victim.
rs she entered the door an article of
wearing apparel was wound quickly
about her throat and Il bottle OF chloro-
form thrust under her nostrls. The
woman was. readily overcome. and ut
tered no sound. Nicholas and Leopo!d
obtained her jewels and turned on the
two gas jets before leaving the room.
Played in "Nettie, the Newsgirl"
Mrs Leslie was we'll known about the
Palace hotel. where she had made her
home while in Chicago for the last two
years She was 33 years old. and had
been on the stage for ten years. Her
! last cnga cement was with company
playing the melodrama, ''Nettie. the
| Newsgirl but that company was strand
ed in one of the western towns, and she
drifted back to Chicago.
Howard L. Nicholas who was first ar
rested in connection with the murder Of
Mrs. Leslie betrayed no concern when
he was informed of the arrest of Leo
pold, and was told that Leopold had said
that he knew less about the actual muir
der than Nicholas.
is that SOP" drawled Nicholas, and
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