oc-plain-dealer 1924-07-25

DETECTIVE TELLS LEOPOLD'S CREED (Continued on Page Two) (Continued from Page One) Young Loeb even mingled with the crowd outside the Franke home that night when young Bobby's crushed and naked body had been recovered from the culvert into which it had been jammed by Loeb and Leopold, the reporters' said, and the shiek-looking collegian expressed horror at the crime. CHICAGO, July 25.—A battle of aliens such as no court trial has ever witnessed, not even excepting the Thaw case, was forecast today as the state of Illinois reumed its deadly hammering home of evidence designed to send young Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard A. Loeb to the gallows for murdering little Robert Franks. They kidnapped him, beat his head with a chisel, strangled and stripped his body of clothes, then hid it in a water drain—all "for a grill" they admit. Nearly half a hundred witnesses have passed thru the box in Justice Cavarly's court and told of the gruesome details. Almost the same number of grisly exhibits, blood-clotting and ugly, have been displayed to the eager, tense throngs that daily come to court "for a thrill." Nearly half a hundred more witnesses will yet tell their stories, add their bit to the mountain of evidence on which State's Attorney Crowe says he will hang them, before two sets of scientific men take the stand and give conflicting opinions as to the normality of minds that could conceive and execute such a wanton crime. And thru it all, Leopold and Loeb, the sprightly young collegians, have laughed. They smiled when Crowe held aloft the bloody cold chisel which one of them wielded on young Franks' head; they smiled when he ran thru his fingers the rope with which they suffocated the boy; they guffawed outright as the Scandinavian servants in their homes gave broken English blows to their carefully prepared alibi. Those were his own words." Neither Loeb or Leopold realized the testimony of the reporters. They smiled and at times laughed outright as witness after witness passed through the box and contributed their knowledge of the case to the "mountain of evidence" which the state is steadily constructing. But at the testimony of the reporters their faces grew grave and suilen, and young Loeb, in particular insisted to Clarence Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach, their counsel, that the witness be cross examined. Loeb submitted some questions he wanted asked. But the counsel, on advice of Jacob Loeb, uncle of Dickle, and former president of the Chicago Board of Education, refused to cross examine, and both boys lolled back in their seats in sulen silence. The consummate cunning with which Leopold sought to cover his tracks after the murder of the boy was related to the court by George Lewis, a student instructor of Ornithology, and a frequent companion of Leopold in the study of bird life. Lewis testified that Leopold called him on May 22, the day after the Franks murder, and asked him to take out a class in bird study, which he did. The class going to the vicinity of the culvert. Again on the following Sunday, Lewis said, Leopold called him and said that he had been interrogated by the police concerning the Franks case. "He asked me," said Lewis, "whether I had lost my glasses. I felt in my pocket and said I had whereupon he said he understood a pair of spectacles had been found near where Franks' body was found and he that I probably would be questioned, too. He also asked me if I had two pair of glasses. I told him I had not. He said all of us who had been in the habit of going to the vicinity to study birds might be questioned by the police." None of the witnesses were subjected to any cross examination. Captain Thomas C. Wolfe, a police officer who first questioned young Leopold, then took the stand. Crowe then read into the record Leopold's original signed pick.' Those were his own words." ALLIED DISPUTE NEAR AGREEMENT LONDON, July 25.—An agreement is near on the dispute between international bankers the French representatives that allied conference on the plan, it was learned from serious sources this afternoon. A plan offering the banker is factory security for theirposed $200,000,000 loan to many and satisfying the FD demands for right to pay France in case of default, practically been agreed on, is reported. The only opposition comes from British bankers. It was a Prominent Orange County Man Detective. C. W. Blattner, one of Orceo's most prominent men, died Tuesday at his ranch home Yorba Linda following an illness of several months, although was confined to his bed but weeks. Laryngitis and complications was the cause of his death. Mr. Blattner is survived by widow, Mrs. Jeannette Blatt and a brother, O. A., in Los Angeles. Services will be held day at 2 p.m. in Elks club,heim of which order he will charter member. Rev. W. Thomson will affixate and Elks will have charge at the garrison. Mr. Blattner has lived for 65 years of his life on a private ranch home. He had recently made president of the Vida Springs resort company its recent purchase and reservation by Phacetia men, and many plans in view for the company's improvement and expansion. He was a prominent M.D. and was chaplain of Amli chapter, G.E.S., of Fullerton passing in this city since its organization. Mr. Blattner has been a power his community was a true C.I.O.neman and one of the great logosters and optimists of Orceo. Active pal bearers will be Cline, Joseph Wagner, Victor Robertson, George Taylor, Go Thomas, Sam Newnes Honey shall bear Louis Jacobs. And thru it all, Leopold and Loeb, the sprightly young colleagues, have laughed. They smiled when Crowe held aloft the bloody cold chisel which one of them wielded on young Franks' head; they smiled when he ran through his fingers the rope with which they suffocated the boy; they guffawed outright as the Scandinavian servants in their homes gave broken English blows to their carefully prepared alibis. These laughs, these guffaws, this debonair and unfeeling attitude are considered significant. They are being watched closely and weighed carefully. All around the crowded musty little court room sit alienists. The state has a flock of them, taking notes, making observations. The shrewd lawyers which their wealthy families engaged to save them from being hanged have another flock of them, also taking notes, making observations. When the time comes, probably next week, the psychologists will swing into action. Until then, what Clarence Darrow calls the "unnecessary part" of the ephemeral case will go on. Darrow is chief counsel for the two youths. He says all this going over the story of the plot and the murder, all this parade of witnesses and their damning facts, is "unnecessary." The boys have admitted the plot and the murder. There are persistent rumors of a coup on the part of Darrow and the defense, something brilliant, unexpected and spectacular—such as characterized his action on Monday, when he unexpectedly withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded bjs charges guilty of murder, a most unusual proceeding. Darrow defended the McNamara in the famous Los Angeles dynamism case and got them off with comparatively light prison sentences. He defended "Big Bill" Haywood in the killing of Governor Steunnenberg in Idaho and got him acquitted. He is feared and respected by his legal opponents accordingly. The youthful defendants were their own debonair selves when court opened at 10 o'clock this morning. Nattily dressed, clean shaven, with hair carefully parted and slicked back, they came into court with their bailiffs and casually resumed their assumed role of interested spectators at their own trial. They both smiled and nodded to their attorneys, their friends and casual acquaintances. There was a bars nod between young Leopold and the sad old man whose namesake and youngest he is. The first witness called was Frank Blair, a professional diver, into the water probably would be questioned, too. He also asked me if I had two pair of glasses. I told him I had not. He said all of us who had been in the habit of going to the vicinity to study birds might be questioned by the police." None of the witnesses were subjected to any cross examination. Captain Thomas C. Wolfe, a police officer who first questioned young Leopold, then took the stand. Crowe then read into the record Leopold's original signed statement to the police on May 25, in which he endeavored to explain his frequent trips to the locality where Frank's body was disposed of. Leopold denied in this statement that he had been in the vicinity of the culvert since May 18. Howard Mayer, a reporter was then summoned, and told a remarkable story of how Loeb had attempted to aid him in unraveling the mystery. Mayer said he met Loeb on the campus of the university of Chicago a few days after the murder and they talked of the Franks case. "He suggested to me," said Mayer, "that I make a round of the drug stores around 63rd-st. and ascertain if there had not been some word left for Mr. Franks about the $10,000." Subsequently, Mayer said, the suggestion was carried out, and Loeb accompanied several reporters on a round of the drug stores, finally coming into the one at 1465 East 63rd-st., where, sure enough, the clerk said "Yes, somebody has been calling Mr. Franks here." "Loeb turned to me," continued Mayer," and said 'See, I told you so. Now you have a scoop. That's what comes of my reading detective stories.'" Both Loeb and Leopold laughed out loud at the reporter's description of this episode. They enjoyed it greatly. Mayer was succeeded on the stand by Alvin Goldstein, a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, who also had been on the trip around the drug stores of 63rd-st. Goldstein confirmed Mayer's account of the conversation, and the trip. The third reporter on the trip, which was conducted throutby Loeb, was James Mulroy. He said that on the trip he asked Loob, "Dick, you know this Franks boy, what kind of a chap was he? Was he the kind that would put up a fight and compel his kidnappers to kill him?" "He replied," said Mulroy. "'If I were going to murder anybody, Bobby Franks is just the kind of a cocky little—'" Loeb stared steadily at Mulroy as the reporter gave his testimony. "You may cross examine," said Crowe. RANCHER WINS IN REALTY SU J. J. Carter, Yorba Linda cher emerged successfully after the suit brought against him the Joel Root Realty company collect a $1250 realty con lion. The reality firm claimed it was entitled to the com sion after arranging for the change of Carter's ranch for apartment court at Long Be Carter withdrew from the crow proceedings just before deal was to be consummated. morning. Nattily dressed, clean shaven, with hair carefully parted and slicked back, they came into court with their bailiffs and casually readied their assumed role of interested spectators at their own trial. They both smiled and nodded to their attorneys, their friends and casual acquaintances. There was a bare nod between young Leopold and the sad old man whose namesake and youngest he is. The first witness called was Frank Blair, a professional diver, who told of going into the water of Jackson Park lagoon and recovering the portable typewriter on which Leopold wrote the letter to Jacob Franks demanding $10,000 as ransom for his son. Leopold had mutilated the machine and chucked it into the lagoon to destroy the trail which the police and newspaper reporters were even then following. He later told the police where it was. Percy Van De Bogert, a clerk in the drug store in East 63rd St., then testified as to answering the telephone several times on May 22 and hearing a voice ask if "Jacob Franks is in the store." It was to this store that Leopold had directed Franks to repair and await instructions as to how to recover his son. The boy was then dead. James C. Kemp, a negro porter at the store gave similar testimony. "Loeb asked me about the condition of the body, as I had seen it at the morgue" Goldstein said. "I told him and he said: "That's terrible, awful! Guys who would do that should be strung up." It is just that fate that the state of Illinois is now trying to impose upon the debonair young college student. A little earlier, James Mulroy, another of the reporters, had testified that he had asked Loeb, "what kind of a boy this Franks boy was, would he fight?" "And Loeb replied," said Multoy, "that if he were going to kidnap or murder anybody, 'Your Hobby Franks was just the last of a coot-horned'." Before net out, passadopted by the Anaheim 72nd of the American Lager, erbitizing the action of the Franks Club of Anaheim, in pass- James Mulroy. He said that on the trip he asked Loeb, "Dick, you know this Franks boy, what kind of a chap was he? Was he the kind that would put up a fight and compel his kidnappers to kill him?" "He replied," said Mulroy, "'If I were going to murder anybody, Bobby Franks is just the kind of a cocky little—'" Loeb stared steadily at Mulroy as the reporter gave his testimony. "You may cross examine," said Crowe. There was a hurried conversation between Darrow, Bachrach and the rest of the defense counsel. Apparently there was some argument as to whether there should be cross examination. The decision finally was against it. JACK TERRY HELD Jack Terry, alias Jack Terrill, Walter Terrill and "Young" Terry, was being held at Santa Ana today on a vagrancy charge awaiting word from Long Beach, where, it is reported, a more serious charge faces him. Accosted by police last night, he said he was "Young" Terry, the name of the Anaheim boxer. Santa Ana police knew the boxer and that he was scheduled to fight last night in Huntington Beach. He became "fussed" when this fact was mentioned, claiming his manager had failed to inform him of the boxing engagement. He protested vigorously when taken to the sheriff's office to get his fingerprints. Officials claim he is a dope fiend. ARIZ. MAY HAVE RADICAL TICKET PHOENIX, Ariz., July 25. George U. Young, prominent mining man, will be asked to lead a state LaFollette party ticket as candidate for governor at the party organization meeting to be held at the state capital next Tuesday. It was announced today by LaFollette supporters who declared they would have a complete state ticket in the field. COLLLED DISPUTE NEAR AGREEMENT LONDON, July 25.—An agreement is near on the dispute between international bankers and French representatives to the conference on the Dawes it was learned from semi-official sources this afternoon. Plan offering the banks' statutory security for their proposed $200,000,000 loan to Germany and satisfying the French hands for right to protest in case of default, has officially been agreed on, it was started. The only opposition comes from British bankers, it was said. OMINENT ORANGE COUNTY MAN DIES W. Blattner, one of Orange's most prominent men, died yesterday at his ranch home near Linda following an illness several months, although he confined to his bed but two days. Laryngitis and complications was the cause of his death. Blattner is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jeanette Blattner, a brother, O. A., in Los Angeles. Services will be held Monday at 3 p.m. in Elks club, Anaheim, of which order he was a later member. Rev. Walter Blattner will officiate and the will have charge at the grave. Blattner has lived for 15 of 65 years of his life on his rented ranch home. He had been actively made president of the La Springs resort company since recent purchase and reorganized by Placentia man, and had plans in view for the company's improvement and expansion. He was a prominent Nassau chaplain of Amit Talfer, G. E.S., of Fullerton Hisung in the first in this order its organization. Blattner has been a power in community, was a true Christian and one of the greatest heroes and optimists of Orange City. WHITE REPORTS ON LIONS CONVENTION The report of Bob White on the annual international convention of the Lions' clubs, at Omaha occurred most of today, weekly. ATTORNEY RULES ELECTION VALID Horace Head, city attorney of Stanton, today unbended and consented to say that he believes the election held there this week for the purpose of disincorporation is legal. Head today admitted that he would so rule before the meeting Monday night. The ballots read: "For disincorporation yes." "Agalist disincorporation, no." Head said that the law provides that technical errors in the printing of the ballot shall not invalidate the result of the election. CONSIDER MERGE LOS ANGELES, July With sentiment both against the plan, repress of 200 California, New Arizona and Texas cities here today consider posed merger of the Elk S. W. and the S. P. R. 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BALLOON FLEES PROVIDENCE, R. L., July 25. A big observation balloon which broke away at the Lakehurst, N. J., airport today passed over this city shortly, before 9 o'clock today. The covering was badly torn and a number of ropes trailed from the runaway ship. Thousands of spectators watched the balloon come up Narragansett Bay and sail over the city. New Anaheim Market Store No.2, W. Center and Helena Streets Here we are tolks--- THE PEERLESS MEAT MARKET 139 West Center Come and select your Meat Requirements from a first class assortment of Inspected Meats. Quality and satisfaction guar- MARKET 139 West Center Come and select your Meat Requirements from a first class assortment of Inspected Meats. Quality and satisfaction guaranteed you. We have some very attractive "Specials" to offer you for the Week-end, among which are— SMOKED HAMS Standard High Grade 23c. FANCY LIGHT BACON (mild cure) 22c. —Both in half or whole pieces ...... BACON SQUARES 15c. 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