The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-03
MORE CRIMES LAID TOSLAYERS
 OF FRANKS BOY Richard Loeb Is Identified
 As Participant In
 MutilatiOn SHERIFF NOW HOLDS CONFESSED KILLERS Police Turn Over Prison. CTS Under Writs Of
 Habeas Corpus
By H. H. ROBERTSON.

(By Leased Wire to The Age-Herald)
 CHICAGO, June 2.-Prying into hidden and sinister phases of the surcharged lives of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., investi- gators have uncovered a startling chain of facts which authorities be- lieve have connected the two slay- CTS of 13-year-old Robert Franks with a series of crimes as atrocious and revolting as the one they have already confessed.
 Loeb, son of the multi-millionaire vice president of Sears-Roebuck & Co.,, was identified late Monday by Charles E. Ream, 22-year-old taxi cab driver, as one of two youths who kidnapped him in an automobile last fall, took him to vacant lot on the city's outskirts, put him under an anaesthetic and performed gland operation on him. Ream did not recognize Leopold as one of his assailants when he was taken into the room at the criminal courts building, where the two confessed slayers of young Franks were held by the sheriff after being turned over by the police under habeas corpus writs.
 Starts New Inquiry States Attorney Robert F.. Grove immediately instituted an investigation to ascertain whether other victims of the gland robberies that have mystified | police here for almost two years could identify either of the young "intellectu- als," members of an erotic and wealthy students group at the University of Chicago which held itself above con- ventions and scOrned mere law.
 There are other crimes besides the gland operations which detectives in- vestigating the Franks murder believe may have been committed by some members of the physically and mental ly abnormal group of which Leopold and Loeb were members. But con cerning these offenses no responsible official would talk.
 Although unable to identify Leopold as the other of his assailants, Ream declared that he resembled the man who he said helped Loeb.
 This is an awful thing, and I want to be sure," Ream said He looks like the other man, but am not cer- tain."
 Demands Penalty
 Then, with bitter tenseness that moved even the detectives and officials who have spent days and nights un- raveling details of the most inhuman and amazing crime in Chicago's long criminal history, Ream demanded that the men who abducted and mutilated him be made to pay a penalty.
 There is nothing too severe for them," he cried. That little Franks boy was just one of their victims. They and the rich mems sons who were their friends-they thought nothing of doing whatever they take it into their heads to do. They weren't crazy they were so rich they thought no law could touch them"
 While an astOnished group listened, Ream, in voice that faltered at times, recalled the circumstances of the out rage perpetrated on him about 2 o'clock in the morning of Nov. 20, 1923. Ream was walking home from work on this morning, and as he approached the corner of Dorchester avenue and Fifty fourth street, on Chicago'S sOuthside, he heard the high pitched throD of rapidly driven automobile.
 Saw Both CaptOrs
 A big car drew up at the curb be- side him. Two men pushed revOlvers in bis face and ordered him to get in. Then started long and wild ride out to a prairie on the extreme south end of the city, and during the interval Ream had time to get a good look at both his captOrs, as the car passed un- der numerous street lights.
 In deserted section, which appeared to be a swamp, Ream felt cloth clamped over his face and became con scious of a rather sickening odor. Then he lost his senses. When he revived it was after daylight. He discovered he had been mutilated. Weak, hardly able to walk, he staggered to q road and asked for help. He was rushed to a physician who found he had been the victim of gland operation.