AMAZING GRIMES

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9723, 5 June 1924, Page 5

AMAZING GRIMES

THE CHICAGO SENSATION

FURTHER SUSPICIONS AGAINST MILLIONAIRE’S SONS. •

TAXI-DRIVER ALLEGES ATTEMPTED MURDER.

ALLEGED COLD-BLOODED CONFESSION BY BOYS.

United Press Association—Copyright, NEW YORK, June 3.

Charles Ream, a taxi-cab driver of Chicago, identified Leopold add Loeb as youths who in February lured him to an automobile and rendered him unconscious by the use of ether. He picked himself up in a swamp where ho was thrown after a gland operation had been crudely performed. On April 7 Marvin Wolf, aged 24, the son of a Jewish millionaire, went to a corner to post a letter and never returned. Weeks later liis body was found in a sewer, mutilated.

The police state they have ground to believe that Leopold and Loeb were involved in tho case.

Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears and Rosebuck, America’s greatest mail order house, visited the police in attempting to. aid Loeb and his partner in the' latter’s trouble'. The police allowed him to read the hoys’ confession, wherein they allegedly detailed elaborate plans to kidnap Rosenwakl’s own grandson and kill him after experimenting on him.—A. and N.Z.O.A.

TRAGIC END OF TWO STUDENTS

(Received June 4, 7.15 p.m.) j NEW YORK, June 3. j In connection with the murders ■ by Loeb and Leopold the police j strongly suspect the youths have j been responsible for the death of i Louis Trace, a follow student at the 1 University of Chicago who was shot after being induced to enter a motor near Leopold’s home. j The authorities also believe the . .youths caused the death of another fellow student, whose body was found . floating in Lake Michigan. j Further evidence is the publication of a mysterious letter wherein Leo- : pold threatened to kill Loeb if the ! latter revealed certain unnamed se-

crets.—A. and N.Z.C.A. YOUTHS -MAINTAIN COMPOSURE, j EXTRAORDINARY BRAVADO BY j LOEB. j INTIMATES MONEY WILL LIBER- ! ATE THEM. j (Received June 4, 8.10 p.m.) s NEW YORK, June 3. j The youths throughout the seventy- [ two hours’ questioning by the police, j generally maintained their composure, ! apparently secure in the belief that j they can escape the consequences, j Loeb, though the younger, reveals a 1 persuasive intellectual calm, answer- j ing questions with a wealth of stud- j ions detail and ponderous rhetoric, i Leopold, who is an instructor m • ornithology and a law student, real- J ises the probable consequences of. his s crime, but Loeb, who is less informed j legally, displays extraordinary brav- j ago, intimating that money will lib- I orate him, remarking that the jur- j ors will he taken care of. Meantime, j the feeling throughout the nation j grows that the youths are arch- j fiends, subordinating ethics and hum- I ane instincts to the pursuit of their j monstrous precocious conceptions and scientific research. The case presents tho most startling divergence . of criminality over encountered in j American criminal types.—■ A. and ; N.Z.C.A. |