The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-03

SHlCdSO, June Wy tle "A. L -
States attorneys prepared today to
submit to the grand jury the con-
fessions of Nathan Leopold Jr. and
Richard Loeb, millionaire sons and
University students, admitted kid
napers and slayers of 13year-old
Robert Franks while Investigators
sought any connection by them with
the unsolved killing of Freeman
Louis Tracy, also a student, and a
mutilating attack last fall on Charles
Ream, taXcab chauffeur.
Ream has declared the youths
held in the county Jail in custody of
the Cook county sheriff by court
order, are the assailants who kid
naped him in an automobile, drugged
and threw him out of the machine
after mutilation operation. Taken
to the states attorney; office by
newspaper men, Ream shouted: "It's
them! Its them!' and tainted.
when he saw the boys later he was
positive in his identification.
The body of Tracy, a bullet
through the temple, was found five
days before the attack on Ream.
Both in Jail
The youthful kidnaper- -slayers who
claimed they killed the Franks boy
through spirit of adventure and
for the $4,000 ransom they de-
manded of his father, Jacob
Franks, spent last night in the
county Jail that will house them
until they are free, removed to the
penitentiary or asylum or executed.
States Attorney Robert f. Grove
declared he would have both indict-
ed by tonight. He said he expects
to ask indictment for murder and
kidnapping for ransom, each cap
ital crime.
Finding of letter written to ia
cob Franks by the boys in a Mich
igan Central railroad car in New
York has completed the chain Of
evidence of the state, according to
Mr. Grove, with the exception of a
portable typewriter on which notes
were ritten. Divers are searching
a park lagoon into which the type
writer was thrown. The promise of
States Attorney Grove that he will
seek the death penalty for the crime
has not shaken Leopold from the
philosophical, contemptuous attitude
he has maintained since first taken
into custody.
death doesn't make any differ
ence," he said. at is the end. Why,
nobody's afraid of DEATH"
He told of two suicide plans he
had made to carry out in the event
if "they made it too hot for me-"
One was to take the poison if he
was unable '"to talk myself out Of
I the mess" A second plan was de-
tailed after detectives found two
automatic pistols in his home. Leo
pold said he had access to the pist-
OILS Friday night when officers were
searching his room for the muddy
boots he wore when the Franks boy
body was hidden.
!, Thought of Suicide
"If I had known that Loeb was
peaching at the time," he said, "I'd
have killed myself therein the room
Do you recall when was standing
at my desk? l had my hand on my
gun. But before l killed myself I'd
have put few policemen out of the
way. Yes, I'd have knocked you"
Leopold maintained his nonchal-
ant air at the coroner's inquest into
young Franks death, reopened yes
terday and continued to June q.
Loeb, called by his erstwhile boon
companion "that chump that dropped
my glasses" and the 'weakling who
confessed" had lost some of the un-
perturbed calmness both maintained
up to the time they confessed. Each
in his admission has shifted the re-
sponbility on to the other of having
struck the blow with the tapped
chisel that killed Franks.