Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-06-03
S[AYERSSPEND
NIGHT IN JAIL;
PROBE GOEsON.
Loeb and Leopold Now Con-
nected with Operation Per-
! formed on Chicago Man
AND STUDENTS MURDER
Case Will Be Presented to the
Grand Jury Today-LegaI
Fight Is Continued
AND STUDENTS MURDER

CHICAGO, June 3.-A declaration
that the bullet which killed Free
man Louis Tracy, student, on No
vember 25, fits ore of the pistols
found in the room Of Nathan Leo
pold, who with Richard Loeb, both
sons Of millionaires aave confessed
the kidnapping and slaying<of Ro-
bert Franks, fourteen years old, was
made by DR.. Joseph Springer, coro-
ner's physician, today.
Leopold and Loeb. self-confessed
kidnapers and slayers of young
Franks, from whose father they at
tempted to extort ransom Of $10,-
900, were identified yesterday as the
attackers who MANNED Charles
Reana by an operation OF mutilation
] only five days after the killing OF
T~aoy.
g. The physicians statement is the
6fst clue that the authorities have
found to connect the kidnappers
with the Tracy murder, one of the
most mysterious Sayings which
>ever confronted the police.
4 Tracy, who previously had been
special student at the University OF
Chicago, was found slain virtually
on the campus, his body having been
left on the street at Fifty-eighln
street and Woodlawn avenue. he
: had been shot through the head.
Although he had an artificial foot
Tracy was popular in social way
among student friends and other ac-
ouaintances and so far as investiga-
ton disclosed, never had an enemy,
The Ream case, more sensational
but less of mystery to the ponce,
although the assailants were not
found, occurred five days after the
Staying of Tracy. :,
DIt's them. It's them, heaIn
screamed late yesterday at the state
attorneys Office as he saw the Two
confessors. Then Ream falnteu:
He blamed the eighteen ana nine,
teen-year-old kidnapers for ruined
life and declared he would kho"
them anywhere. especially Leopold.
Reporters brought Ream to the
criminal court building. The states
ATTORNEYS men were too busy with
preparations to start the grand jury
investigation of the Franks muroer
4 today.
v5,icb states Attorney Grove SAID
might last two or three days or per-
haps produce an Indictment peLore
the end of the way, was to start az
- M. Grove declared he would
have both youths indicted twice
FOR murder and for kidnapping for
ranson-both capital crimes unuer
the Illinois criminal code. ).
The youthful kidnapers-p pio-
spective heirs to millions, still main
tain their only motive in killing the
fourteen-ye -year-old Franks boy was
an. experimental adventure and nope
Of obtaining the $4,000 ransom ue-
manded from Jacob Franks, the
father, retired multi-millionaire
pawnbroker and manufacturer.
Norman Ream. young taxicap
driver, taket to- the county jail py
rewsnaper men seeking an explana-
tion Of the attack of mutilating
upon him last fall, screamed an
identification Of Leopold and Loeb
and fell in a faint.
The other unexplained attack,
which, like that upon Ream oc-
CURED in the vicinity of the Franks,
Loeb and Leopold man IONS in the
south Side milliona'e colony, Is the
murder of Freeman Louis Tracy,
college student and high salaried
electrical technician. The Tracy
: murder never has been explained.
)fIis body, with a bullet hole thr ouSh
the head, was tossed from speeding
automobile near the University of
Chicago after he last had been seen
nearby a short time previously re-
turning home from dance.
In furtherance of his fight to send
young Loeb and Leopold to the gal
lows, Robert e. Grove, states attor-
ney, today will seek indictments
from the June grand jury. He lost
the first skirmish in his fight yester-
day when pleas for writs of habeas
corpus were answered by the stu
dents being taken from his custody
and remanded to Jail. Defense at
torneys demanded this action to pre-
vent further use of the two young
men in weaving the net of evidence
about them, a task they had entered
into wholeheartedly in apparent en-
1oyment of being in the limelight of
8 sordid romance and also to pre-
vent examination by state aliepists
to forestall possible plea of insan-
fty. The writ hearing was continued
to June 6.
1t was only when three steel gates
had changed behind them last night
chat the full weight of the accusa-
ntions against them seemed to dawn
upon young Loeb and Leopold. The
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