Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-05

Taxi Driver Identifies Pair
as His ASSaiIantS.
Murder limited

Der 70, last, fits one t the pistols
found in the room of Nathan Leo
,..pold, who, with Richard Loeb. has
pnfessed The kidna ping and Staying
Robert Franks, Ii, was made by
Joseph Springer, coloners phy-
Fan today.
Coincidental1y, States Attorney
!, Grove, in starting grand jury inves-
tigation of the Franks case, OIL
cially began inquiry to determine
whether they were connected with
the murder of Freeman Louis Tracy
and the mutilation of Charles Ream
last fall.
Assistant States Attorney Joseph
n. Savage and a squad of detectives
, were assigned to investigate the
Tracy and Ream crimes as result
of the Identification late yesterday
of Leopold and Loeb by Ream as
the men who MANNED him.
Leopold and Loeb were identified
yesterday as the attackers who
manned Ream by an operation of
mutilation only five days after the
killing of Tracy.
Statee's attorneys prepared today
to submit to the grand jury the boys
confessions in the Franks case, while
connect them further with the
Tracy and Ream cases.
When taken to the states attor-
ney's office by newspapermen, Ream
shouted cts them, It's them and
tainted when he saw the boys. Later
he was positive in his identification.
Drowning Also Hinted
He blamed the Is, and 19-year-old
kidnapers for a ruihed life and de-
clared he would know them any
where, especially Leopold.
'I knew them when l saw their
pictures in the newspapers" Ream
declared. at was Leopold who pre-
pared the bandage."
Reporters brought Ream to the
criminal court building. The states
attorneys men were too busy with
preparations to start the grand
jury investigation of the Franks
murder today.
Tracy, who previously had been
special student at the University
of Chicago, was found slain virtual
ly on the campus. He had been shot
through the head.
Tracy had an artificial foot He
was popular in a social way among
student friends and other acQualn-
tanceS and so far as investigation
disclosed, never had an enemy.
He had left a party of friends
about midnight the night of Novem-
Der "a and was found murdered
early the next morning 1t appeared
to the police that he mad been slain
and then thrwon from in automo
bile
Melvin E. Wolf, aged "a. WHO dis
appeared from the home III the Hyde
Park district of his wealthy grand
father, Henry Lindenthal laht April,
was found in the lake, after he had
left the house, hatless and coatless,
to mail a letter, VAS supposed to
have committed suicide That expla-
nation was never accepted by his
relatives but Henry Lindent1al to-
day refused to talk of the case or to
consider a possible new solution of
the mystery involving Leopold and
Loeb.
1T would not bring the boy back
II we did find out" was all he
would say.
Attacks Similar i
The Wolf death attracted new at
tehtion when detectives began re-
viewing the proceedings of the
coroner's inquest.
1t was recalled that Volts body
was nude when taken from the lake.
lAnd he knew both Leopold and
.E4eb, neighbors of the Lindenthal
Rriy said today.
~ The Lindenthal residence is at
Forty fifth street and Ellis avenue,
that OF Loeb at F'iftieth street and
Ellis, and that of the Franks family
at Fifty-fifty street and Ellis ave-
nae, all in the Hyde Park district of
stately mansions. The Leopold resi-
dence, also an imposing pile. iron
fence enclosed, is at F'orty-eighth
street and Greenwood avenue, just
block from Ellis avenue.
The Investigators were struck by
the fact that both the bodies OF
Wolf and of Robert Franks were
nude when found; that Tracy was
found mutilated in a prairie less
than two miles from the lonely spot
where the Franks body was left, and
that Tracy probably had been made
a captive in an automobile before
being killed just as the Franks lad
was.
Youths Placed in Jail
The youthful llidnaper slayers,
who said they killed the Franks
boy through u spirit of adventure
and for the $4,000 ransom they de-
manded O. his father, Jacob Franks.
spent last night in the county Jail
that will house them until they are
freed. removed to the penitentiary
or asylum or executed.
Their removal from the custody
of the states attorney. who Has
held them since they were first
questioned last week. came at the
end of the opening SllirmSh of q
legal battle with millions for the
defense. which had petitoned for
writ of habeas corpus. Hearing on
the writ was continued to June 6.
States Attorney Robert f. Grove
/, declared Ne would have both indict-
ed by tonight and arrested on the
mttimuS. He said he expects to
ask for Indictments for murder and
kidnapping for ransom each a capt.
tai crime.
Loeb More Depressed
Leopold. it was disclosed today
had won the commentator of the
American OrnitholoSists' union by
his motion picture film of the rare
Kirkland, or pine warbler. filmed
while rearing its young and first
shown TO ornithologists of Michigan
The film. later accompanied by a
paper prepared by Leopold. was pre-
+. scented to the ornithologists' organi-
cation.
Loeb, perhaps the greater reader
of the two, subscriber TO detec-
tive periodical, was the more de-
pressed by his night in a CELL but
he has been the more disheartened
and more talkative Of The two.
called by Leopold that weakling."
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