Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
BY ARTHUR WILD.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
JOLIET, ILL.,, March 19 (N.A.NA).-
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold
slayers of little Bobby Franks, will face
each other here again Friday after
leading widely divergent convict lives for
the last four years.
The two thrill killers" whose arrest
and trial were heralded over the world
will be among the convicts summoned
to testify before the Illinois legislative
committee inquiring into yesterdays
fire and riot at Statewide Penitentiary
near here, and the disorders that led up
to it.
Leopold until today was among the
1 ZOO in the old prison within the Joliet
City limits locked up on a breadand-
water diet since the mutinouS outbreak
there Saturday. Warden Henry c. Hill,
however, has asserted that investigation
has shown that Leopold did not actually
participate in the attack on the guards
or in the wrecl;ing of the mess halls
and kitchens in the, old prison.
Many viii Testify.
Besides Leopold and Loeb dozen
other convicts, Warden Hill declared,
will testify at the inquiry to refute the
charges made by Rev. George Whit
meyer, former chaplain, that brutality,
poor food and the trafficking in booze
and dope in the penitentiary we're pri-
rnarily responsible for the riot in which
two Of the prisoners lost their lives and
two others were wounded.
Leopold was slated several weeks ago
to be sent over to the new building and
Warden Hill was carrying out his plans
when the fire broke out yesterday.
Leopold" said Warden Hill, "has
been on good behavior. He is among
those locked up for the riot, but we
have information that he took no active
part in it.
There are 40 new prisoners coming
down from Chicago and we must take
40 from the old penitentiary to the
new one today to make room for the
new shipment Leopold is slated to
go with the group There Is no favorit-
ism. He and Loeb have been apart for
years, and it is just an accident that
they are put together now"
Seeks Real Riot Cause.
Warden Hill is hoping to discover from
these prisoners the real cause of the
riot so as to present the case in full to
the legislative body.
Marty Durkin, Fur Summons and
Red Barker and any other prisoners
they want to hear Friday" said Warden
Hill.
IT want the public to know every
thing about the penitentiaTy. I've i'm
proved conditions a thousand per cent
since came here in August of 1929"
An inquest was held Tuesday into
the Staying of Albert Yearbook and
George Jakowanis, convicts, during the
riot. Irene Yearbook, sister of the dead
man. leaped upon guard Frank Cutchin
as he was testifying.
You murderer" she cried again and
again as she struck the guard and
knocked him to the floor. She was
finally oVerpowered and carried strug-
Cling from the room.
All Guards Targets.
The fact brought out at the inquest
for the first time that the two convicts
were killed and one wounded while
hurting missiles at Guard Charles Hill,
and not, as was previously announced,
while attacking Capt. B. A. Davenport,
will be presented TO the Legislative In
veStigating Committee.
1t was at first supposed that the con-
victs were directing all their rage at
Capt. Davenport, who always presided
at mess, but it was disclosed at the
inquest that all the guards were the
target of plates and cups and not Day.
export alone.
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