The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-25
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Loeb. uncle OF 'sDicky'' and former
president Of the Chicago board Of
education, refused to cross-examine,
and both boys lolled back in their
seats In sullen silence.
First Mayer, then Goldstein and
then Mulroy told the court they
had known young Loeb for some
time, and that while working on
the story they met him on the uni
versity campus.
Young Loeb, they said, manifested
an extraordinary interest in their
assignment, ana discussed numer-
Gus theories with them, as to how
to solve what was then a mystery
the identity of the kidnapers and
motive behind the brutal, sordid
crime.
Suggested Visiting Stores.
: It was '.Dicly" himself, Mayer
said, who preached the suggestion
that Jacob Franks never would get
his boy back by expecting to meet
the kdnapers in busy streets that
most likely some word or insinua-
tons to the grief-stricken father
would be left at some drug or cigar
store in the vicinity.
Why don't you canvass around
the drugstores and find out ?
Mayer said Loeb asked him.
Mayer said he didn't think much
OF the idea, but Loeb insisted it was
q good bunch and finally the report
ers and Loeb himself got into d car
and began circuit of drugstores.
They finally wound up at a
drugstore in East Sixty-third street,
TO which Leopold had anonymously
instructed Jacob Franks to repair,
and there, questioning the clerk.
they found that somebody had been
calling Franks by telephone there.
You see. that's what comes from
reading detective storfes,'" Mayer
quoted Loeb as saying, with q laugh,
when they congratulated him on
the correctness Of his "hunch."
II was not the testimony of the
reporters as to how he had aided
them that Loeb apparently resented.
While Mayer was telling how he
had discussed the case with Loeb
ON the campus and Of going around
70 the drug stores the nineteen.
year-old student laughed outright
and seemed to get a great deal Of
enjoyment from the recital.
Loeb would nudge Leopold and
they would whisper and then they
would both grin broadly.
Objected to Epithet.
But when Mulroy testified as TO
the vile epithet applied to little
Bobby Franks by Loeb the latter
shook his head angrily. There were
more angry shakes when qoldstein
quoted him concerning the string
ing up" that should be melted out
to guys who would do that
After the reporters had finished
and the State had put on a half
dozen policemen who told of check
ing UP on, the confessions Of Leo.
pold and Loeb ana finding the
wearing apparel Of Bobby buried in
the sand, Justice Caverly adjourned
court for the noon recess until 2
p. m.
The youthful defendants were
their own debonair selves when court
opened at 10 o'clock this morning.
Nattily dressed, clean shavefl, with
hair carefully parted and sltckOd
back they came into court with their
bailiffs and casually resumed their
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1T their own trial. They both smiled
and nodded to their attorneys, their
friends and casual acquaintances.
Mods to Father.
There was bare nod between
young ~ y - and the sad old man
whose nafnesake and youngest he
as.
The first witness called was Frank
Blair, q professional diver, who told
OF going into the waters Of jackson
Park lagoon and recovering the
portable typewriter on which Leo.
pold wrote the letter to Jacob
Franks, demanding $4,000 as ran
som for his son.
Leopold had mutiIated the ma.
chine and chueked it into the lagoon
70 destroy the trail which the 90.
lice end newspaper reporters were
even then following. He later told
the police where It was.
Percy Van DeBogert, a clerk IN
me drug store in East Sixty.third
street, then testified concerning an.