Show MOTHER HOPE DIES 11 I AS STUDENT DEATH BAFFLES SLEUTHS t t d 4 ik I 1 v I tr p I 4 I iP I Iy y I Cause of Leighton M Mounts Mount's Death Still as Much Mystery as a Ever BY DY GEORGE GEORGC BRITT MA 1 Service Writer VANSTON III IlI Juno The 6 6 ie EVANSTON E light that burned for lovo I I out Leighton Mount 1 Is dead Moaning out all alone along the lakeshore compus of North estern university here his hiss hL s s skeleton eleton pleads for someone to to- to tho iii Ill story tery of o Its weird story IG nearly two vears ears ear an on lous bus hearted broken mother ast- ast astIng Ing log away assay with worry oro kept a boa bell be con colt light lIht burning a as a welcome for her boy sho eho trimmed Its Ita flare dare for nearly two ears she abe kept hi his room In order Put Sut hl hi his school schoolbooks schoolbOoks scho books on hi his hIi desk Kept his ht h t clothes mended ond and neatly pre after night she sho he stole Into that stilled room to see that tho lIght still burned Night after night she ale knelt tho the bed arid and smoothed Its unruffled coverings For Leighton was as as coming back Dac she said But fate fato ruled otherwise BOnY BODY l lED Early Barly this spring a 0 school boy playing at pirate along tho the lake lakeshore shore crawled through a holo hole h Ithe the tho pier near nar th the E anston break break- breakwater breakwater breakwater water a mile south of oC the university sity campus ampus He lEe reached a point about 25 2 feet from rom the opening half CO ered by heavy stones washed over b by waves s ayes splashing cracks In the frame framo workS work I be J a human skeleton Every Indication pointed to th thc fact that thai th the bones bons were vero thos of o Mount freshman who year old disappeared 80 BO n on mysteriously ly on the nIght of oC o th the ann onn Ia lal class rush In September 1 September of 1921 1931 With Ith the bones were ere ere found a apiece piece of rope such a as students use I during tho the rush to tie their cap cap cap- tl tie with Ith pieces of cloth similar to the clothing Mount had born orn an a tarnished belt buckle bear benr- bearing bearIng Ing the Initials t L L It M An r Evanston dentist testified that tho the teeth teth corresponded to t Mount s e upon na ne had ha worl worked ed And od medical authorities making a further examination of oC the tile r re mains Added to the corroboration or of the missing lad smother s a mother there thero could be he no doubt but that death had bad at ut last ended her Ing search The beacon light sputtered and sent ent out liti 1 I Authorities set to work ork to solve the riddle But after aCter weeks of ot In- In In Investigation the Cook county grand jury reported It had nothing to report Two theories were followed That Mount met death at the tho hands of haters Perhaps ps he d Investigators In argued ant those responsible had In panic concealed his body under the pier That he took his 0 own oin n life Doris flori Fuchs a 0 nursemaid with whom h he had a boyish o e 10 e affair told of oC o a note Mount hail had written It said he would not see seo her again But later Miss lIss Fuchs l declared the suicide theory untenable CT r Official Inquiry proceeded ed for nearly two months More lore than students known I to hive e participated participated forI I paLed In the class ru rush h were J 3 Allen Alien Mills uns lead leader lead lead- leador leador or er of or the freshmen rehmen that year was back from Akron 0 Arthur P rescued by fishermen after aner he was tied hea head donward do to a breakwater oft Calvary cemetery during the rush was wag Tilled ruled So were Mounts Mount's parents Doris DorisI I on race Page Two Tiro |