New Britain herald., 1924-07-28

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 The reports were purported to have come from Dr. Carl M. Bowman of Boston, and Dr. H. S. Hubert of Chi cago.
 State Ncars End
 The final pieces of testimony with which States Attorney Grove has been building his mountain of testi- mony" in the hearing which is to de- termine the fate of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., were reached to- day
 After a morning session devoted largely to expert identification of handwriting and typewriter specimens as those made by the defendants, MT. Grove said that only one or two wit nesses remained to be heard.
 One of these is Johnny Levinson, see Robert Franks alive and who, &C., cording to the confessions of Leopold ald Loeb had once been considered as likely subject for the plot which ended in the abduction and killing of young Franks.
 Today's Court Doings
 The court fight to save from the gallows Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, confessed kidnapers and murderers of Robert Franks went into it's second week today.
 Over Sunday developments served to revive public interest in the pro- ceedings before Judge John R. Caverly and the entrance to the building and approaches to the court room were choked with curiosity seekers. Half an hour before court opened the specta- tors space was filled. More than half the audience was feminine and many of the women were young. 1
 Court opened promptly at 10 a. m.
 Robert E. Grove, states attorney, | called back to the stand Detective | Sergeant Cortland, saying he wished the witness to identify some of the notes from which he read the bomb- shell of last Friday when he quoted as wishing to plead guilty before friendly judge"
 The questioning had to do largely with the exact dates on which Gort- land made the various memoranda. Judge Caverly drowned and shook his head as the tedious process continued. Attorneys Darrow and Grove con- state, the former nodding and starting B cross-examination.
 "Mr. Officer" said Mir. Darrow, you now say these certain sheets were written July 24. You wrote hem all at home and at the same .ime?"
 "Yes sir" said Cortland.
 Admits Mistake
 Didn't you testify the other day hat these six sheets now marked ex- libit four, were written at different imes?" 1T was mistaken" said Cortland.
 The court was informed that the six heets in question were, according to Cortland, "The outline of my testi- nony as prepared by me the night of uly 24." T Then Cortland was excused. [ Larry Cuneo, Mir. Crowe's private I ecretary, identified various statements l written by Leopold at the Hotel La $ ale the Thursday before Decoration ( ay, 24 to 36 hours before the first V onfessions. | The purpose was to form basis for sstimony on comparisons of hand t rriting, it was explained. e Cuneo testified that Leopold had V emarkcd three days after these spe- c Imens of handwriting were made V lat he had made slip" because he t, ad used "a characteristic letter y" W l this writing of Thursday. 1, Cuneo next identified some speci- d lens of Loeb's writing. b Captain William Shoemaker of the hicago police force, testified he was \ resent when Leopold and Loeb made W leir confessions May 31. He said tl eopold made some notes, identified sI le pieces of paper, and they were S limited In evidence. Similar notes J om Loeb were put in the record. The boy defendants followed this interest. Leopold, par cularly. abandoned his customary ouch in his chair, and sat erect, in on his left hand. John Tyrell. a hand writing expert om Milwaukee, followed Captain loemaker.
 The Ransom Letter.
 Mir. TyreH testified first that the nsom letters, both the one which oi ached the father of young Kranks tr Id the one left in the Pullman car, hi gre written on an Underwood port oI ,le typewriter. It was a machine of la is make that was fshed out of the W ckson Park lagoon where the boys they had thrown it. CT The first letter told Mir. Franks how to prepare the s1o.o00 ransom de- ga
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