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Show ALIerTH. LDEB, DIES ATGHICAGO FATHER OF FRANK SLAYER PASSES AWAY GRIEVING OVER WAYWARD SON Murderer May Be Permitted to Leavi Joliet Prison For Few Hour to Join Family at Father's Bier Chicago, Richard "Dickie" Loeb. who with Nathan Leopold Jr. murdered mur-dered 14-year-old Bobby Franks, may be released from the Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet long enough to attend the funeral of his multimillionaire multimillion-aire father, Albert H. Loeb, who died at his home here. John L. Whitman, warden of the penitentiary, is known to favor the granting of permission to prisoners to attend funerals of near relatives, and if application is made, it is considered almost certain that Dickie will leave the prison for a few hours at least. Richard's father, senior vice-president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., expired of heart failure after a prolonged illness. ill-ness. Members of the Loeb family were emphatic in denying that death was brought about or even hastened by the confession, court hearing and sentencing of his third oldest son to the penitentiary for life. Loeb had been a virtual invalid for more than a year. The heart attack, eventualy ending in death, came on May 18, just two days' before Bobby Franks was kidnaped and murdered. The last time the millionaire saw his son was on May 29, when Dickie was taken into custody. Young Richard Rich-ard went to his father's room and laughingly told him that policemen had called to question him. "They want to ask me some ques-tionss, ques-tionss, dad," Dickie said. "I'll be back in two or three houri. So long, dad." The elder Loeb never saw Dickie again. Three days later, when Richard and Nathan Leopold confessed the kidnaping kid-naping and murder, Loeb was too ill to be advised. Later illness prevented prevent-ed Loeb from attending the prolonged court hearing and he was never officially offi-cially interviewed. Members of his family said that he never commented comment-ed at length upon his son's case, except ex-cept to express regret. Loeb was considered one of the foremost business organizers of the Midlde West. He was born at Rock-ford, Rock-ford, 111. On graduation from college, Loeb became a school teacher with a post in Chicago's public evening schools. He was admitted to the bar in 1899 and formed a partnership with Sidney Sid-ney Adler. During his law career Loeb secured the legal business of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Later ' he acquired ac-quired an interest in the firm and became be-came its senior vice-president. Loeb's fortune has been estimated at close to $10,000,000. |