The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-03
Chicago Boys May Be Re-
sponSibIe for UnSolv8d
Murders States Attorney
Says Authorities Start
Investigation.
TAXI DRIVER MAKES NEW
CHARGES AGAINST PAIR
Says Leopold and Loeb At
tackled Him and Per-
formed Gland Operation
Grand Jury Meets to
Act on Franks Case,
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, June 3.-Nathan Leo
pold and Richard Loeb, who have
finally passed over ''the bridge of
sighs" and are held securely in
county Jail for the first time on
charges OF numbering Robert
Franks. 14-year-old school boy. may
be connected with another murder,
a brutal gland operation and
possibly ether crimes, it was in.
dicated today at office of States At
lorney Robert E. Grove.
Charles Ream, taxicab driver, who
six months ago was attacked and
mutilated, identified Leopold and
Loeb as the two youths who made
him prisoner and gagged him with
an ethersoaked rag. Ream said he
was positive of their identity and
promised to make formal charges
against the youths.
Aides of Grove. meanwhile, are
Investigating possible connection Of
the two ''super-intellectuals" with
the murder of Freeman Tracy,
another University of Chicago
student. Tracey's murder on the
evening Of Nov. 25. 1923. was never
explained.
Recognized Pictures
Leopold and Loeb knew them
when first I saw their pictures in
The paper" Ream said. Loeb drove
The car on the night I was kid
naped. It was Leopold who held
that ether bandage over my face. -
With Ream's identification of
Leopold and Loeb as his attackers,
authorities announced they would
Investigate every recent unex.
claimed crime on Chicago police
records in belief the millionaire col
lege students may have been con-
nected with them. Several murder
mysteries, gland operations and
high banditry will be investigated.
There is no telling where our in
vestigations will lead u.s." Grove
said. These boys, II they were
capable of kidnapping an innocent
schoolboy and numbering him, may
be guilty Of many other crimes"
Grove Indicated that the two
brilliant college students" DOS
sessed with the belief that they were
too smart to be found out" may
have started on prolonged adven-
ture in crime to satisfy their ego.
He said it was entirely possible that
they may have started in minor Of
lenses, going step by step 20 greater
crimes, climaxing in the murder Of
Robert Franks, which finally led to
their downfall.
Now in County Jail
Young Leopold and Loeb were
taken Monday night through the
long, gloomy tunnel that leads from
Criminal Court to the county Jail.
To their attorneys, who are max
Ing desperate efforts to save them
from the gallows, it was a victorious
march, which led the boys away
from their inquisitors into the con-
fines of the jail where they will be
permitted to consult with lawyers
and advisors. To the boys it was a
sOrrowful procession-a march that
ended behind strong iron bars in a
cen much like other cells where muir
derers, thieves and lesser other
criminals were lodged.
Doors Crush Spirit
One by one three iron doors were
closed behind the two boys. When
the last one swung heavily on its
hinges and the steel bolt was slipped
quietly into its place. Leopold broke
down. The spirit that had been
aebOnair and naughty, crumpIed
under the weight of those doors
Three doors-three steel doors, .
he whispered softly to the deputy
sheriff. MY God, I never thought
1t would come to this"
Loeb, more broken, weaker by far
than his comrade, uttered not a
word. He walked slowly, his hands
deeply buried in his pockets.
Lawyers at Work
The 100000 defense" led by
Clarence Darrow and financed by the
millions Of their fathers, was hard
at work today, devising some plan
by which # was hoped to save the
boys from execution. Insanity prob
ably will be the defense.
The county grand jury was to
convene today and States Attorney
Grove was prepared to ask immedi-
ate indictments against Leopold and