Show I GRAND JURY WT I ITO TO VISIT PEI Report Students Student's Mother I Says School Tried to Hu Hush Hull h Up Case CHICAGO May 11 The 11 Th grand jury the disappear disappear- disappearance disappearance disappearance ance of Leighton Mount North North- Northwestern Northwestern western university student who ho disappeared 20 months ago apo today Included In Its program a visit to the lake front pier where II a a skeleton skeleton skeleton ton accepted by authorities as that ot of Mount was as recently roundA found round A delegation of ot physicians physician was preparing to make a second exam exam- examination examination wasI I of ot the th bleached bones to determine the tho time ela elapsed pd before disintegration was nas as completed and I whether hether chemicals had been pOll poured red over 0 er the tir bod body IIII's Mrs III's J L Mount mother or of orthe I the youth who Identified the s from Crom bits ot o t and anda II a corrodEd belt buckle round found Ith I the th bones according o The Tho Chicago caco Tribune charged Northwest Northwest- Northwestern I cago est est- estern ern cr with whit CO up the facts Mrs Irs Mount asserted assorted the Trib Tribune une tine said that President Walter Dill Scott cott of ot Northwestern persuaded her to keep quiet to protect tho the Institution Chicago police pollee entered the case nse late Thursday Chief ot of o Detec Detec- Detectives tives Michael Hughes after aCter in- in inspection In Inspection of the tho pier where here the skeleton was ass found said ald that the stones tones said to ha hae have e been plied piled on top lop of ot the tho skeleton I render lender ender anY suicide theory Dorris Fuchs friend of Mounts Mount's I ho received cd an unsigned no note Ie she be said aid was as written by him the tho night of the class dais rush September 21 1921 seemingly re pre lous statements that she the believed elle Cd Mount might have committed suicide She said she lio was waa uJ convinced 1 Mount lount waS as the victim IcUm of ot orth 1 Northwestern estern haz- haz hai ers Miss Ml s Fuchs Fuch who had said ald she cd a letter lotter from Mount the same ame day he he disappeared asserted that she at first believed b he had hadt t made good his bis threat to disappear but since the finding of ot the sicele- sicele t ton she b told the tho Jury she belle believed ho he had been blen a a victim of ot class haz- haz hazIng haz leg Ing and that his body was as hid hidden hid hid- hidden den FIRST MEETING G I 1 first met Leighton Leichton when hen be to and nd two other boys came camo to my assistance while I wis nas trying to open th the door to my apartment Miss s Fuchs Iuchs told the grand erand jury Leighton Leichton confided to me about his family affairs affair lIe He said sall he wa was not allo allowed cd to go so out cut anywhere and ho 0 come came to me for Cor mental aid lId and com comfort fort The night before the class rush while wo we were out ridinG he told no me that I would not see tec him again lie JIe II said ald that ho he would die dis- disappear dl appear during the class rush but butI butI butI I paid no attention to him because he I had said those things thine before The ThO night nl bt of ot the rush It bEgau to worry orry me so o I went ent and nd told his mother Asked whether she the had e ever eer er re- re received re received any presents from Mount the girl girt said laid he had several times hr hI Clo flowers cn he hI had picked s In the fields and ono one time limo bought her ler a pair pall of or slippers slipper President Walter alter Dill Scott ot Northwestern was the other prin cipal before the th grand jury and made a flat fiat denial that ho he had ordered the search for Cor Mount by students discontinued as I J Alien Allen Mills of Akron 0 O a 0 former student had testified President Scott said ald Mrs had come como to see ce him the tho morning after aCter her sons son's dIsappearance and had told him of trouble she ho had with her son on over o Miss I Fuchs and had also said salol that Leighton had talked of ot suicide or ot of running ay anny He Ire expressed the opinion that Mrs Irs Mount feared her son had committed suicide but hoped that ho he had b d been by StU- StU StUdents students dents siu-dents dents Instead W ron rort OTE OTE OTI President Scott said he told Mrs Mount at that time that ho he I Idid did not think her son had com com- committed committed committed suicide and nd said he be promised prom prom- promised to start t rt a 0 search for tor the boy and that the search was wa carried out without result He e said he h ad- ad advised ad advised Mr II Mount the bobs bov's bo s 's C father her to employ detectives es and to patch atch bliss Fuchs as ho lie belle believed the youth would try to get Into Inlo com com- communication communication communication with her It If he h had ran away The detectives were em- em em and tho the students and house officials continued their hunt he testified adding that at tho the time Mr Ir Mount left leU he h made a signed statement that the university was nas doing e to find his son President Scott J and another student had called on him a few dabs davs s later and expressed the opinion that a 0 ne newspaper re- re reporter reporter re reporter porter was responsible tor for Mounts Mount's disappearance rhe They wished to force toree th the reporter to toll tell where the south was concealed he slid S President Scott said he counseled against an ny violence but did not say anything about stopping the hunt only in so far Car as he forbade Concerning the skeleton found under the Evanston r pier and the tho probability that It tt was wa Mounts Mount s President Scott said laid he was ass as as as- as assuming as suming that thai it wag iras but don t tee feel I per cent sure TIO ON nr e J L Mount the missing boys boy's bo s 's father was me the last witness lie He told or of o a surgical operation on the back ot of Ins his son s h head ad when the youth axle was l a child and said that It had left a scar near and that at one onetime onetime time ho he thought he had hid a trace ot of his hi son ton In Milwaukee lII through this scar c r but that nothing came camo ot of It He lie said aid that despite the th In- In Injury injury In Injury jury to his hi sons son's head the boy had bad never suffered any mental Impairment 00 |