| Show Learned Minds Yield Fiendish Plans Leading To Justice Bar Parents of Chicago Youthful Youthful Youthful Youth Youth- ful Criminals Arch Among Most Respected Rich Richand Richand and Influential Citizens CHICAGO July By A. A P. P P.- P. Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb confessed slayers of ot year 14 old Robert Franks ranks are both minors minors mi ml- nors sons of millionaires of standIng standIng standing stand- stand Ing and graduate students distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- by their attainments At Atthe Atthe Atthe the time of the slaying Leopold was ivas 20 and Loeb 19 Probably none of Leopolds Leopold's acquaIntances acquaintances acquaintances ac ac- ac- ac except Loeb connected the slaying last May 21 which shocked the country and which accordIng according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the boys' boys confession was premeditated with the precocious ornithologist who had engaged the confidence of th the little HUle Kirtland Warbler a bird so shy as to have been supposed extinct so successfully successfully success success- success success-I fully that It perched on his shoulder and ate from his hand while a thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand feet of moving picture film were unrolled According to Loeb though this detail Leopold disputed it was the same hand that struck Robert Franks from behind with a chisel bound with tape afterward strangling him Nathan I The grandfathers of both and Richard were among those who like Carl Schurz came to this country from Germ Germany ny because of the he failure of the revolutions of 1848 Th The Leopold family has been in Chicago since 1867 Albert Loeb father father- of Richard was born In Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago In 1868 Nathan Leopold Sr whose fortune grew as as the city grew was formerly engaged In lake transportation and Is now a paper box manufacturer Albert Loeb son of at a n. small shoe merchant taught evening school practiced law and eventually became vice president of ot the Sears-Roebuck Sears Mail Mall Order Orter company company com corn pany of which Julius Rosenwald is president His brother Jacob Loeb was president of the Chicago board of education from 1916 Until 1919 His wife Richards Richard's mother who was Anna Bohnen has been active In welfare work Both families worship at Sinai Sinal temple of or which the late Rabbi Emil 0 Go Hirsch was was pastor Like them the family of the boys' boys victim vie vic tim Robert F a Is of qt Hebrew descent although n not not t holding bOlding the Hie Jewish faith Robert failed to reach home after school May 21 The next day a let let- Continued on page page 3 tf LEARNED MINDS I YIELD FIENDISH MURDER MURDE PLANS I Continued from page 1 1 ter tel and ami messages by bj telephone e called d dupon upon his father Jac Jacob b Franks s president ot of the Rockford Wat h company compan a neighbor of ot Loeb and Leopold for tor ransom The Tha message stated that the boy had been but was safe sate Tha I father virtually decided to comply with Instructions but permitted his I lawyer awyer and r relative to go to t tle- tle e morgue to see the body of ot a boy that had been found in a culvert I The boy boj was identified las as Rob Robert rt An autopsy showed that the had I been slain before beCore the lett letter r demanding demanding de de- de- de manding ransom was wag written Several wit witnesses esses were examined examine but not until a n. pair of ot glasses f found nd I in the culvert were gere traced through the prescription to young Nathan Nathanr was either he or Richard suspected The tWo tv boys were taken into r custody and were held in hotels s and andin andin andin in the states state's s office for lor three d days ys Their adroitness ant and I assurance baffled their examiners Until Loeb learned that their at- at I J tempted albi albl was refuted b bj by tile the I I testimony of a chauffeur that the I car the b boys ys said they had used was undergoing repairs at the time Then Loeb began to confess and Leopold learning of ot his action did likewise According to the confession they h y planned both slaying and kidnap kidnap- Ing lag the extreme penalty tor tar murdel murder mur mur- der del death being the same in Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- nois as the extreme penalty for kid kid- naping for ransom even though though the victim survive They are reported Iby bj bi the tIle state to have said they did it for mone money and for adventure I Although counsel for tor one one of the suspects complained that harsh measures were used by detectives de detectives de- de es in the case of his client cHent who nevertheless did not confess States State's tates tate's Attorney Robert Crowe as asserted asserted as- as that the utmost consideration tion was extended toward Nathan and Richard and that he be permitted d them to talk with their relatives though not with counsel It was Jess less than a year sear ear before that Leopold had read before the the- the American Ornithologists union ata at ata ata a hH meeting in Boston a paper on the Kirtland warbler Scientific men who heard him praised him him for a contribution to science science th that t thad had seemed impossible in filming the shy warbler in the Michigan 1 wilderness thus demonstrating its ts existence |
