Evening star., 1924-06-03
Shot That Slew Student Last
Year Fits Pistol Owned by
Franks Murderer.
ALSO NAMED WITH LOEB
IN MUTILATION OF MAN
Taxi Driver, Victim, Faints After
Identifying Two Rich Youths.
Both Crimes Probed.
BY the Associated Press.

SnlSAbo, June "a declaration
that the bullet which killed Freeman
Louis Tracy, student, on November
20, fits one of the pistols found in the
room of Nathan Leopold, who with
Richard Loeb, both sons Of million
aires, are held for the KIDNAPPING ant
staying of Robert Franks, fourteen
years old, was made by DR.. JOSEPH
Springer. coroner's physician, today
Leopold and Loeb, self-confesseG
kidnapers and slayers of youne
Franks. from whose father they at
tempted to extort a ransom of $4,000
were identified yesterday as the at.
tackers who MANNED Charles Rean
by an operation OF mutilation onl,
five days after the killing of Tracy.
The physicians statement is the
first clue that the authorities have
found to connect the kidnapers with
the Tracy murder, one of the most
mysterious slayings which ever con.
fronted the police.
Slain Near Campus.
Tracy. who previously had been a
special student at the University OF
Chicago. was found slain virtually on
the campus, his body having been
left on the street at 5Sth street and
through the head
Although he had an artificial foot
Tracy was popular in a social way
among student friends and other ac-
quaIntances, and so far as investiga-
tion disclosed, never had an enemy
He had left party of friends abou,
midnight the night of November "a
and was found murdered early the
next morning. 1t appeared to the
police that he had been slain and then
thrown from an automobile.
The Ream case, more sensational
although the assailants were no,
found, occurred five days after the
staying of Tracy.
It's them. It's them" Rean
screamed late yesterday at the states
attorneys office as he saw the two
confessors. Then Ream tainted.
Blamed fer Ruined Life.
He blamed the eighteen and nine
Teen year old kidnapers for . ruined
them anywhere, especially Leopold.
Il knew them when l saw their
pictures in the newspapers,' Ream
declared. 1T was Leopold who pre-
pared the bandage"
Reporters brought Ream to the
criminal court building.
States Attorney Grove, in starting
the grand jury investigation today,
officially began inquiry to determine
whether Leopold and Loeb were con-
nected with the murder of Tracy and
the mutilation of Ream.
The investigation, Grove said, might
last two or three days or perhaps
produce an indictment before the end
of the day.
Mr.. Grove. declared he would have
both youths indicted twice-for MUIR
der and for KIDNAPPING for ransom
both capital crimes under the H.
linois criminal code.
Melvin E. Wolf. aged twenty-four
who disappeared from the home in the
Hyde Park district of his wealthy grand
father, Henry Lindenthal, last April, and
was found in the lake. after he had left
the house. hatless and coatless, to mail
letter, was supposed to have committed
suicide. That explanation never was
accepted by his relatives. but Henry
Lindenthal today refused to talk of the
case or to consider a possible new Solu.
tion of the mystery involving Leopold
and Loeb.
1T would not bring back the boy il
we did find out" was all he would say
The Wolf death attracted new at
tention today when detectives began
reviewing proceedings of the coro-
ner's inquest.
1t was recalled that VOLTS body
was nude when taken from the lake
He knew Leopold and Loeb, neighbors
said.
The investigators were considering
the fact that both the bodies Of Wolf
and of Franks were nude when found
that Tracy was found mutilated in q
prairie less than two miles from the
spot where the Franks body was left
and that both Wolf and Tracy prob
ably had been made captives in auto
4,
Spend Night In Cell.
Leopold and Loeb spent last night in
Jail while prosecutors and detectives
sought to connect them with the Tracy
murder and the manning attack in
further elaboration of their DR.. Jekyll
students at the University of Chicago
by day and seekers after thrills in the
laboratory of life by night-thrills which
satisfied their jaded appetites of nine-
teen years only with death.
The youthful kidnapers-slayers, both
prospective heirs to millions, still main
tain their only motives in killing the
perimental adventure and hope of OBJ
tanning the $4,000 ransom demanded
from Jacob Franks. the father, a retired
muIti-millionaire pawnbroker and manu-
facturer.
Defense Wins Point.
Grove lost the first skirTnish in his
fight yesterday when pleas for writs
of habeas corpus were answered by
the students being taken from his
custody and remanded to Jail. De-
Tense attorneys demanded that stel
to prevent further use of the two
young men in weaving the net OF
evidence about them, task they had
entered into wholeheartedly in ap-
parent enjoyment of being in the
limelight of a sordid romance, and
also to prevent examination by state
aHenists to forestall a possible plea
of insanity. The writ hearing was
continued to June 6.
1t was only when three steel
gates had changed behind them last
night that the full weight of the
accusations against them seemed tC
dawn upon young Leob and Leopold
The latter, !debonair, smiling and
engaging throughout the period OF
questioning which had resulted in
his confession and assistance in re.
covering various incriminating ar
ticles. sagged at the knees, sighed
and moaned:
Three doors-three steel doors. !
never thought IL would come to this
Loeb Bears Up.
1t was Loeb then who bore up, al
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