The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

conspicuous and so we deemed it in- advisable for use, and decided to get a rented car. Such a car, obtained under T false name, would not be in- eliminating were we discovered, the confession Heads.
 ''In order to assume a false name and real identification, Leopold de- posited $100 at the Hyde Park State Bank under the name of Morton D. Ballard, from Peoria. went to the Morrison hotel (Chicago) registering under the name of Morton D. Ballard, carrying an old suitcase containing some books"
 A Salesman
 "We went for the rented car to the Rent-A-Car people. Leopold went in alone with $400 in his pocket and the letters sent to Ballard at the Morrison and his bank book from the Hyde Park State Bank. He said he was a sales man from Peoria, that this was the first time he had covered this dis trict; that the only person he knew in Chicago was MT. Louis Mason. He told them this was the number of Louis Mason. The Rent-A-Car people called up and immediately answered the phone and told them I was MT. Mason"
 Loeb said he recommended Morton D. Ballard" as absolutely dependable" with the rented car both youths went to the Morrison and Loeb entered to check out. He said he found that the suitcase with the books had disap- peared, that he believed the hotel had become suspicious and therefore T i'm mediately left the room and hotel"
 He said they quickly phoned the Rent-A-Car agency whom they pre- viously asked to send "Ballard's" identification card to the Morrison to send it instead to the Trenier hotel. Loeb said they then mailed letters to the Trenier hotel to establish the Bal lard idntity there.
 "On May 20 Leopold and I pur- chased some rope. l, myself, alone, purchased both the chisel and some rope. Then we proceeded down the street to a drug store where Leopold purchased some acid.
 Writes Notes
 "Then we proceeded to Leopold's house wheer we got the gags, every thing in readiness-some ether that he had in the house, the ropes, the rags to be used as gags, the chisel which he bound with adhesive tape on the sharp end and some hip boots. l be- lieve, also that on that day, the twen- tieth, the various notes were written"
 Loeb said the ransom note, which at- tracted comment for it's scholarly quail ties, was composed jointly by him and Leopold several days before the kid naping, and that the actual typewriting was done after the killing, Leopold writing while he dictated.
 Asked to repeat the note, Loeb could remember only a few portions tex tually.
 Next he told in great detail how they drove about for two hours or more looking for victim. Loeb said this rec onnoitering begin about 2 20 D. m., at the Harvard school where he went into the play yard to talk with MT. Seass," a tutor who was sheperding a flock of children. The first child he talked with was "a little fellow by the name of John Levinson, whom I knew. I just asked Levinson about his baseball game and so on."
 II left the playground and went out in front of the Harvard school where l met my little brother who attends that school. Then Leopold whistled for me to come over (across the street).
 He told me there were some chil- dren playing on Ingleside avenue that