The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-07-24
STATE PLACES
ITS EVIDENCE
I BEFORE COURT
Goes Into Details Showing
How Crime Was Fastened
on Leopold and Loeb
CHlSEL is INTRODUCED
=
Witness Tells of Seeing it
Thrown from Automobile
Soon After Killing
CHlSEL is INTRODUCED

Chicago, July "a. (By the A. P)-
Continuing the piling up of evidence
designed to send Nathan Leopold Jr.
and Richard Loeb to the gallows
for the kidnapping and murder Of
Robert Franks, States Attorney Grove
today produced in court the states
exhibit in the chain of evidence for
formal identification.
These included the taped cold chis-
ell. used in beating the boy to death;
the charred remains of the blood
stained automobile robe rescued
from the ashes of the bonfire on
the lake front; portable typewriter
similar to that on which was written
the ransom letter written to Franks
father, and paper and envelopes ident
flied as the same texture as that
sold to Leopold shortly before the
disappearance Of their victim.
introduced also by the state was u
pint bottle identified bv the drug
clerk as the one in which he had
sold hydro-chloric acid to Leopold
VII lHe udy vi VIC
Throughout the morning session,
during which more than Is witnesses,
were called, the young college
students sat composedly behind their
attorneys listening and occasionally
speaking to their attorneys.
Chicago, July 24.-The heavily
tapped chisel with which the life of
young Robert Franks was beaten
out was introduced today in evil
dence in the advisory hearing be-
fore Chief Justice John R. Caverly,
which is to fix the penalty of Ma
than Leopold Jr. and his compan-
ion, Richard Loeb, who confessed
the Staying.
Bernard Hunt, a neighborhood
watchman, told of seeing the chisel
tossed from a passing automobile
about 1880 o'clock in the morning
of May 22, few hours after the
Staying of young Franks.
"There was fresh blood on the
chisel when l picked it up," said
Hunt. The relic was given to the
court.
Hunt said that maroon car
with red disk wheels and bright
metal headlights" passed him as he
was standing at Forty-ninth street
and Greenwood avenue.
"What happened?" asked Mr..
Grove.
"As the car slowed for the turn,
man in the rear seat raised up
and threw out the chisel."
"What did you do?"
II walked over to where the
chisel lighted and picked it up. 1t
was cold chisel wrapped in tape.
1t had freshly dried blood on it."
Hunt was not cross-examined.
Maid on Stand
Elizabeth Sattler, second maid in
the home of Nathan Leopold Sr.
identified on the witness stand a
portable typewriter which she said
"resembled" machine she had
seen in the room of her employers
son.
She added that she had seen Ma
than Jr. use such a machine
"many times"
1t was on this kind of a machine
that the ransom letters were typed.
She was questioned also about
the storing place of the automobile
robe in the Leopold home.
"A fuzzy, greenish and badly
charred robe, said by the state tc
have been the remnants of the
d-stained robe which the two
boys attempted to destroy by soak
ing it in gasoline and burning it
on the lake front was offered in
evidence. The witness said she
had seen similar robe in the Leo
pold home.
She was cross-examined briefly
by the defense counsel.
Students Called
Four University Of Chicago stu
dents, classmates Of Leopold, in
the law school were called to tell
what they knew about the type
writer.
The best they could do was to
say that the machines they saw at
the Leopold home were portables.
The portable offered in evidence
by the state was the one grappled
from the bottom Of q lake lagoon
after the confessions Of the two
youths.
AS part of their plans to con-
ceal the crime, the state pointed
out yesterday, Loeb had drawn the
letters from the machine with
pliers and had strewn them in the
lagoon. The main part of the ma
chine was tossed into another part
Of the lagoon.