Evening star., 1924-07-25
Loeb Declared for Hanging
Franks Slayer, Witness Says

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Underwood portable typewriter from
the Jackson Park lagoon, was the
first witness. lit was the machine on
which the Franks ransom letters
were written.
Where was the first place you saw
that typewriter" asked Mr.. Grove.
"On the bottom of the Jackson Park
lagoon" said Blair.
Blair showed where he cut the let
ter "B" on the roller as an identifying
mark.
Mr. Grove then made formal offer
of the machine, and it was accepted
without objection from the defense.
Blair said the type keys were gone
when he found the machine. The de-
fendants' confessions stated they
pulled these off with pliers to max e
difficult tracing of the ransom letters
in case the machine was found.
Drug Clerk Testihes.
Percy Van De Bogart, a clerk in
the drug store on Sixty-third street,
where two telephone calls were re-
ceived May % asking for Mr.. Franks.
father of the victim, told of that incl
dent.
He said young mans voice came
over the telephone. The incident was
from Franks father. the store being
one to which he was told to go 70
await further instructions.
Franks did not go because he had
learned of his boys death before the
time came to keep the appointment.
James c. Kemp, porter in the
drug store. told of second telephone
call to the store shortly after the first.
George Porter Lewis, an amateur
ornithologist. told of conversation
prior to May % in which Leopold dis
cussed the possibility of field work
with the latter's class in ornithology'
composed of small girls.
On May %, Lewis said. Leopold tele-
phoned and made an appointment Tor
the witness to take the class to jack
son Park that afternoon
Passed Death Culvet.
Mr. Grove took the witness back to
a trip made the previous Sunday by
Lewis. Leopold and Sidney stein h. r.,
to territory south of the city. the
trip passed near the culvert where the
Franks body was stuffed.
Defendants Amused.
Leopold took two or three shots
at a rare bird there" said Lewis.
Did he hit it?'
NO" and Loeb dug his elbow into
Leopold's ribs at this exposure OF the
latter's craftsmanship. Both chuckled.
Lewis IIc1 lolu ol Sii~
class of girls around Jackson Park
on May %.
The following Sunday Leopold told
the witnesses that he had been ques-
toned by the police about the Frank s
case. His name had been given to the
police by a game warden:
Leopold asked Lewis If he had lost
his spectacles the previous sunday.
Lewis had not. He exhibited his
spectacles to the court. They were
identical in appearance with the pair
found near the culvert and when al
terward proved to be Leopold's.
Lewis said that the defendant
the incident
Police Omcers on Stand.
Can't Thomas c. Wolfe of the police
district in which Franks body was
found said he first saw Leopold on
May 25.
Our investigation disclosed that
Leopold was in the habit OF gong
around the vicinity of the culvert
birding" he said. HE told me he
had been there May II and Is with
Stein and Lewis, and that classes
from the Harvard School used to go
there, and that he himself had been
a student at that school before enter
Leopold said everybody was talk
ing about the Franks case, that he
knew the boys father, but had nc
idea who committed the crime"
Capt. Wolfe then was shown the
spectacIes found near the culvert and
which he had turned in to Chief of
Detectives Hughes.
Wolfe identified a statement writ
ten by Leopold on May 70. 1t was
offered in evidence and Attorneys
Bachrach and Darrow put their heans
together over it.
Leopold Statement Read.
Mr.. Grove then asked Wolfe to
identify the signature and the captain
said some one else" wrote the name
and notations as to Leopold's address.
The statement then was read.
1t proved to be history of some. of
the defendants ornithologlcai trips,
particularly the May II and Is expe-
ditions.
SUNDAY, May IS, at the conclusion
of a days birding, Sidney Stein, Lewis
and ] drove along the west shore OF
Hyde Lake to Hegewisch,' said the
statement Similar detail was given
as to other incidents of the trip. The
statement was admitted and Capt.
Wolfe was excused without cross-ex-
animation.
Howard Mayer. University of Chi
cago newspaper correspondent, testl-
fed he had known Leopold for a year:
Il was told to pick up whatever |
Mayer. Il met Richard Loeb on the
campus at noon, May %. We talked
about the case and Loeb suggested
that il Mr.. Franks had gone to the
Sixty-third street drug store ne "oulo
not have met the kidnapers.
"'These kidnapers would not meet
a man on a busy street hke tnat,
said Loeb. They would only leave
word for him."
Slayer Omers Lead.
Loeb suggested canvass the street
but I heSitated because 1 hao some
school work to do. However, Alvin
GoIdstein and James Mulroy OF the
agreed to go.
I'VE worked west from stony
Island avenue and at No. 1465 found
a porter who remembered the cal
for Mr.. Franks.
"Goldstein and Mulroy remained in
our automobile because it was rain
ing, and Loeb said to me:
""There! I told you we could find
this. Now you have a SCOOP.
Mayer said he explained this would
not be ethical and they called the
others in. questioned the clerk and
porter and telephoned their stories
to their newspapers.
That is what comes OF reading
detective stories," Loeb exclaimed tc
Mayer as they left the place.
Another conversation took place
in the Loeb home on the morning OF
Decoration day. Loeb had been
brought to his home by the invest-
gators of the States attorneys office
who then had the young man in Gus
tody for preliminary examination as
a result of the finding of Leopold's
glasses near the culvert
Held Arrest Lightly.
Loeb joked with the witness there
about the "boner" of the police In
holding him for such a crime anC
regarded the whole matter lightly.
privately with the witness in the
States attorneys office, when Mayer
advised Loeb to tell the truth
Were you looking for a story
them" asked Mr.. Grove.