The Washington times., 1924-07-24
The WAIT
DEFENSE
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The officer who arrested Loeb. He
merely testified to the fact and wae
excused.
Doctor Emil Deutsch, an oQulist,
Who prescribed glasses for Leopold,
next came to the stand. It was the
accidental dropping Of pair of
glasses near the cuivert where the
body De little Bobby Franks was hid.
7. Cen that first directed suspicion to
young Leopold.
When the gIasses were found,
khey were discovered to be Of an
unique make, handed only by one
Chicago firm. The firms records
disclosed but three people In all
Chicago who had precisely these
glasses-.a lady, q professional man
and young Leopold. The first two
were readily absolved and the chase
ended with Leopold.
Doctor Deustch simply Identified
The glasses and was then excused,
Thomas McWilliams, manager of
the Morrison Hotel, where Loeb
also had rented q room under the
name Of Morton d. Ballard, :"
further completed the identified
ton.
Witnesses Finish Quickly
witnesses were passing in and
but Of the chair rapidly, some
scarcely getting seated before they
were asked few questions to COM
pleted the record and then speedily
excused.
There was q Quickening Of inter
est at 10:40 q. m. when Elizabeth
Sattler, maid employed by the
Leopold family, was called to the
stand. The young son of her en-
ployer smiled broadly at her as she
took the stand. She was obviously
nervous and i'll at ease. She said
she had been employed in the Leo
pold home for three years and knew
young Nathan WE'LL"
The maid testified that there had
been a portable underwood type
writer In the Leopold home for
several months prior to the Franks
murder. 1t was on this machine
that the ransom letter was written
TO the elder Franks. She said she
had seen young Nathan use the
machine many times"
"Is this machine similar to the
one In Nathan's room?" asked
Grove, holding aloft the battered
machine that was taken out OF the
jackson park lagoon. AZ had been
thrown there by young Leopold
after the murder.
yes she said.
Grove next dragged out another
rrislv exhibit-tfe charred and
bloody automobile robe, In which
Loeb and Leopold confessed they
wrapped the body OF young FRANKS
after he had been knocked on the
head with the chisel in the car.
''F1ow many automobiles in the
Leopold family?" asked Grove.
esF'ive.'
She then identified the ugly robe
- one similar to that used In the
Leopold cars.
On ross.examination, Ben Jamin
DAchrach brought out the fact, that
the maid was still employed In the
Leopold home. She was then ex-
eused.
Youths Unmoved.
During the exhibition Of /. these
kruAsome relics OF their crime,
meither OF the young defendants ex-
Aibited any emotion. They looked
steadily at the frightened girl, and
occasionally whispered among them
selves. Leopold smiled and nodded
70 her as she left the stand.
Arnold Maremont, a student at
The University OF Chicago and law
school mate Of Leopold's was next
called. He testified he had known
LEOPOLD for several years, and had
frequently gone to the Leopold
home to study with the young son
sc the house. His testimony was
merely contributory to that Of the
maids concerning the typewriter.
Howard Oberndorf, Maurice Shan
non and Lester A. Belson. also fell
low students, gave similar cor
Soborative testimony concerning the
Mrs. Lucille Smith and her daugh-
Ger, Jeannett, testified they had
seem the murder car" near the
Culvert on the night that Loeb and
Leopold wrapped the body Of young
n Franks in an automobile robe, took
N to the culvert and jammed 1t
head first into the drain. They
had been to q movie show, they
eaId, and saw the machine as they
came home.
Chisel Thrown Out.
Bernard Hunt, night Waterman,
followed the Smiths. He said he
was standing on the corner of
Eortv.ninth street and Greenwood
avenue on the night of May %
and q maroon car Oeepold's carl
came by and he saw something
Whizz out from it, having been
lfhrown by someone inside.
This, Grove developed, was the
cold chisel. wrapped in adhesive
tame. II wrs cold chisel that
mashed IN ynNng Franks head
while he struggled in the back Of
the car, according to the con.
fession OF Leopold and Loeb.
There was fresh blood on the
ll1isel when / picked 1t up" testi.
fled Hunt. II turned 1t over to the
authorities"
Hunt, in rich Irish brogue, rose
m his seat and demonstrated how
the person in the back OF the car
had thrown out the chisel. HI
antics caused both boys to
and whisper between theIns
Morgan A. Collins =
lice, was anotheF
functory