Evening star., 1924-07-24

The States attorney regrouped his
assistants and alienists. bringing DR..
William Krone to the front and fac
ing him so he could watch every ex-
preston of the defendants.
The steel cabinet full of exhibits
was bumped into the room by three
husky bailiffs
Nathan Leopold. sr.. accompanied
by the defendants elder brother. and
Jacob Loeb, uncle of Richard, arrived
i few minutes before court was due
20 "pen. Judge Caverly delayed his
appearance and 1t was ten minutes
litter the scheduled hour before the
clerks gavel fell
conference of attorneys with the
judge caused the delay. Leopold and
Loeb smiled greetings to their rela-
tives as they entered.
First Witness Called.
Andrew Russo of 23l East Fifty
first street, New York, was called as
the first witness. Mr.. Grove explain
ing that he wished to return east
Russo, an electrician, formerly en-
ployed in railroad Yards there. told
n hnding in a telegraph blank rack
IN a Pullman car. May 81. a letter
addressed to Jacob Franks. father of
the victim Of Leopold and Loeb The
envelope directed the finder to leave
TINS alone; il is very important".
The letter contained instructions
on how the father was to throw from
moving train the $4,000 ransom
| hn l.
the train passes a large red brick
factory. count five and throw the
money east as far as you can" said
! the letter
for Russo turned it in" and the Pull
man Company sent it to the police
David Barish who testified yester-
day that Loeb was in his delicatessen
store May when Morton D. Ballard"
| impersonated by Leopold. was hiring
| a car, was recalled. He said the tele-
phone number OF his place was Calu-
met 463S. the number given by
ballard as that of his reference
| Louis Mason"
Identification of Nail.
Frank B. Tuttle, clerk in the
of the defendants was asked to
Identify mail addressed to Morton d.
| Ballard"
| On cross-examination the defense
directed attention to the statement of
| the witness that ne handed letters
! sealed to detectives from the states
attorney and that he was incompetent
to testify as to the contents of the
| envelope.
The point made in the cross exa-
mination forced the State to call
George Homer, detective, who opened
the envelope after receiving it from
Tuttle at the hotel.
Homer identified the contests of
he nIn iot
Identification matter from the auto
| mobile renting agency.
Homer also told of arrestinG
Richard Loeb and taking him to the
| LaSalle Hotel for preliminary ques-
| tioning by the States attorney after
Leopold's glasses had been found in
the marsh near the railroad culvert
which gave up Franks body. This
he said.
Identifies Glasses.
DIR. Emil Deutsch. oculist, was
called to identify the glasses found
in the marsh those prescribed by
himself for Leopold. He told of pre-
scribipg glasses for Leopold of the
type found near the culvert. "A
minor degree of stigmatism" was
given as the trouble from which Leo
pold was suffering.
Thomas McWilliams. manager of
the Morrison Hotel, where Loeb reg
istered as Morton D. Ballard testi-
fed to turning over to the Chicago
agency addressed to Ballard and
placed on his desk by hotel employees.
He had not opened the letter. and
Mr.. Grove therefore sent for Morgan
Collins, superintendent of Chicago's
| Police Department. to whom McWil-
liamS delivered the envelope.
Leopold Maid Testif1es.
Leopold home, told about Nathan, jr's
typewriters. She identified the de-
| fendant and was then shown the
wreck of the portable writing ma
chine fished from the Jackson Park
lagoon by a diver.
Miss Sattler agreed with Mr.. Grove
that the wreck "resembled" the ma
| chine of the same type owned by Leo
pold.
She also testified that the Leopold
family, owned five automobiles. She
was shown the charred remnants of
| an automobile robe recovered from
| the spot on the lake shore where
| the defendants said they had set ire
| to it after saturating it with gasoline.
| She said that the robe resembled
| one she had seen in the Leopold
home. The relic however, was little
more than a cinder.
On cross-examination Misr, sattler
before the grand jury.
LAW Student Testihex.
Arnold Maremont, law student
| with Leopold at the University of
Chicago, told of perhaps. a half a
dozen" visits to the Leopold home
to prepare his lessons with Nathan, jr
e'd S4ng sfen n Nathsne Nae s%e
home within the past eight months.
He identified State exhibit as
typewriter similar to the one he
dope sheets" prepared by himself
| and Leopold on portable type
| writer.
| dorf, said he knew Leopold and had
| visited his home to study with him.
He did not know what make of a
| Portable machine Leopold used. Ask
| wood machine and a Hammond also
taken from the Leopold home, Oben-
! dorf replied:
"An portables look alike to me-"
| Tells of Conversation.
| He described a conversation with
Leopold and Maremont before the
! States attorneys assistants denying
| however, there had been a discussion
then of the ownership of the ma
| chimes.
| Maurice Shamberg had seen two
portable machines in Leopolds room.
One he knew to be a Hammond. He
could not identify the States exhibit,
he said. as the one he had seen in
| his classmates home.
| Lester Abelson, another law student,
| said his testimony would be substan-
TALLY the same as that of the other
| students, and was excused.
| Lucille and jeanette Smith, mother
and daughter, living in the neigh
borhood in which young Franks
body was found, told of having seen
a large black touring car ION the
dirt road" near their home on the
j night of Nav 81 the data Eranks