Show LOEB SLAYER BREAKS DOWN Screaming P Prisoner r is 0 n er Refuses Testify to JOLIET I t Jan 29 James UP-James UP James Da Day year old convict who slashed RicI Richard ard Loeb to death in prison Tuesday with a razor refused to testify Wednesday at at a coroners coroner's inquest into the mur mur- der When told what the proceedings were we're Day declined to answer ques ques- ques-I. ques Then he screamed suddenly Ive b been en miserable ever since I 1 have been here He was led back to his cell cen Events Traced From other oher witnesses events following fol iol- fol- fol lowing fatal latal assault on L Loeb eb were traced Captain James Humphrey Humphrey Humphrey Hum Hum- prison guard who was called to the tho scene by convicts testified that he saw Day emerge from the shower bath room He handed me a stained blood-stained razor Humphrey said and then fell feU forward on his face ace as i if in a adeep adeep adeep deep faint I t ordered him taken to the tho prison hospital where I 1 talked to him later Inter Day said that Loob Loeb had gotten him his job in tho the prison correspondence correspondence correspondence corre corre- school which Loeb was conducting In the shower bath in inthe inthe the tho correspondence school rooms Day told me that Loeb attacked him and that in the tho en ensuing struggle he slashed Loeb Loch with a razor The Tho broken family of Loeb one of the two men who killed Bobby Continued on Page Two Column One Ono LOEB SLAYING CAUSES PROBE Continued from Pig Pap Out One j V 12 years ago planned a a secret funeral for him today Disgraced anew by Its iL abnormally minded scion the family remained VIn In In strictest seclusion Loebs Loeb's body slashed 56 58 times time was taken to a Chicago funeral homo home not far from th the hoI hone home e of his wealthy family I Authorities Authorities believed that the same aanie ab abnormal ormal desires that prompted Lobs Loebs part in lit the crime that was tho crime o of the century were cau cause e of oC his death Tells TeUs of Approaches Approach a The boyish slayer Day told a Straightforward story of abnormal approaches following Loebs Loeb's death and authorities said they believed him bini A sweeping Investigation of cir circumstances I dr surrounding the killing of ot the thrill slayer and the general general general gen gen- eral management of ot pent pent- nl y was wu promised ed by author author- ties tier States State's Attorney Will wm McCabe of ot Will wm county and A A. A I Li L. Bowen tate state director of oC public welfare were ero hero for the inquest st st. Among the first to be questioned was Nathan Leopold companion of L Loeb eb in the He as as- as umed a surly ludy attitude J last ast t. t night and refused t to give investigators any MY information on about eve events ta that preceded th the slashing Story Believed Stat States State's s 's Attorney McCabe be said Mid preliminary pre pee ry questioning revealed there had ad been bad feeling between Day and Loeb for months He Ho said he I was in inclined tl believe Days Day's story of f the crime e which li waS was corroborated ed d by his Blood streaming g from almost every part of his naked body Loeb staggered from front a small shower bathroom bathroom bathroom bath- bath room into a first firt floor floo corridor r of t the prison yesterday afternoon Day clad only in trou trousers erl walked Into the corridor a few seconds later a razor in his hand He handed the razor to Austin Humphrey guard rd captain and said Self Defense Heres the knife I 1 did It In self leU Days Day's stor story told later to Warden Joseph ph Ragen follows Ever since I came CaIne here nere a year and a half halt ago Loe Loeb had be been n hounding me and making improper advances I have always always' refused to listen to him Like to Settle t 1 This morning 1 I saw law Loeb and Leopold chatting together and eating eatIng eat eat- at ing in a celL We We- had had an argument argument ment Friday and Loeb said said- he be hew w would uld like Uke to settle our difficulties He told me to meet him in his private bathroom after dinner I 1 went to the door of at the tha room and waited several minutes for tor him When he lie came he be took the ke key from his pocket and unlocked the dooz 41 went went-Jn with him and he be locked the door on the inside We undressed and got under the shower hower Then he showed ni me the razor and told me rue If I did not do what he told me to do he would kill killme killme me I waited for an opportunity and kicked him hint hard He lie fell fen to th the floor and the razor I his hand I grabbed it and began slashing l him 1 J Cot Cat Him He fought hard but I cut him until he fell fen into the shower The hot water poured down on him and h he seemed to pass pus out But when I 1 turned on the cold water he re fe e Warden Waden Ragen immediately ly de- de Died the truth of ot parts parts' of Days Day's story tory He said L Loeb eb and Le were viere not did not have a private bathroom and were accorded accord- accord ed no sp special cial privileges Loeb died after the attack attack attack at- at tack just after hi his brother Ernest and two family physicians reached the prison hospital A convict had supplied a transfusion in V a vain effort to save Ave his life Go in Seclusion Loebs Loeb's mother an and brothers Ernest Ern Ern- est and Allan shut themselves in their south sid side home and refused on the he tragedy The rhe slain stain co convicts convict's father Albert H. H Loeb formerly vice vico president of Sears Roebuck Co died of grief a few months after fter the con of his son He Ho l estate state of to his wife Leopolds Leopold's father tather di died din in 1929 leav- leav leaving ing Irig an estate of more than th n half halt a million dollars Including la ia for Lo Loch Loeb b then 18 and L Leopold 19 w were re saved ed from death after confessing confessing con con- one of the most moat sensational nal nai crimes In Chicago's history by Clarence Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence Darrow the eminent criminal argued that lif life imprisonment would be bel a greater punishment punish punish- ment than swift death |