For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (61 page)

10.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 74.

11.
Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 1:35 a.m., fol. 406.

12.
Ibid., fol. 407.

13.
Ibid., fol. 354.

14.
Trial Transcript, fols. 387–388.

15.
Ibid., fols. 397, 402.

16.
Ibid., fols. 388.

17.
Ibid., fol. 388.

18.
“Slain Boy’s Teacher Hidden,”
Chicago Daily News
, 23 May 1924; Trial Transcript, fol. 388.

19.
Trial Transcript, fols. 389, 403.

20.
Ibid., fols. 400, 404

21.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 74.

22.
Leopold,
Life Plus 99 Years
, 38–40.

23.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fols. 74–75.

24.
Ibid., fol. 75.

25.
Trial Transcript, fols. 376–377, 383–384.

26.
Ibid., fols. 441–445.

CHAPTER 6: THE INTERROGATION

1.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 284–285, 286.

2.
Trial Transcript, fols. 467–468.

3.
Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 1:35 a.m., fol. 369.

4.
Ibid., fols. 381–382.

5.
Ibid., fol. 377.

6.
Ibid., fols. 429–432. See also Additional Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 1:00 a.m., fol. 516.

7.
Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 1:35 a.m., fols. 366–367.

8.
Ibid., fol. 363.

9.
Ibid., fol. 366.

10.
Ibid., fols. 371–373.

11.
Ibid., fols. 397–399.

12.
“Gin Party Leopold Alibi; Seek Death Typewriter,”
Chicago Daily Journal
, 30 May 1924.

13.
“Kin Aid Two in Franks Tangle,”
Chicago Daily Journal
, 30 May 1924; “Both Fathers Stunned,”
Chicago Daily News
, 31 May 1924.

14.
“Gin Party.”

15.
“Youth Retain Friends’ Faith during Their Long Ordeal,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 31 May 1924.

16.
“Kin Aid Two.”

17.
“Parents Disbelieve Confession; Battle of Millions Is Looming,”
The World
(New York), 1 June 1924.

18.
“Youth Retain.”

19.
Trial Transcript, fol. 397

20.
“Cub Reporters Win Franks Glory,”
Chicago Daily News
, 31 May 1924.

21.
Trial Transcript, fols. 676–677.

22.
Ibid., fol. 208.

23.
Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 6:30 p.m., fol. 439–440.

24.
Additional Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 11:45 p.m., fol. 499.

25.
Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 10:30 p.m., fols. 450–452.

26.
Ibid., fols. 484–485.

27.
Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 1:35 a.m., fol. 391.

28.
Additional Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 11:45 p.m., fols. 495–497.

29.
Ibid., fols. 505, 505–506, 510.

30.
Trial Transcript, fols. 262–264, 267.

31.
Ibid., fols. 261–264.

32.
“Shake Leopold-Loeb Alibi,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 31 May 1924; “Confess as Auto Ride Alibi Is Swept Away,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 1 June 1924.

33.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 193.

34.
Ibid., fols. 193–194.

35.
Additional Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 1:00 a.m., fols. 512–514.

36.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2624–2625; Additional Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 1:00 a.m., fol. 514.

37.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 194–196; “Confess,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 1 June 1924; Orville Dwyer, “Clinch Youths’ Confessions,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 1 June 1924.

CHAPTER 7: THE CONFESSIONS

1.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3037.

2.
Ibid., fols. 1588–1589; “Young Millionaires Tell How They Killed Franks,”
Chicago Daily Journal
, 31 May 1924.

3.
Trial Transcript, fols. 1637–1638.

4.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fols. 44–45.

5.
Ibid., fols. 61–62, 65.

6.
Ibid., fol. 75.

7.
Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fols. 5, 42.

8.
“How Franks Boy Was Killed Is Told,”
Chicago Daily News
, 31 May 1924; Charles V. Slattery, “‘Hang Leopold and Loeb,’ Says Crowe; Killed Boy to Pay Blackmailer Theory,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 1 June 1924; “Killers Collapse,”
Chicago American
, 31 May 1924; “Young Millionaires.”

9.
“Let Law Take Its Course, Says Franks, Father of Slain Boy,”
Chicago Daily Journal
, 31 May 1924; “Father of Franks Boy Voices Deep Sympathy for Families of Culprits,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 1 June 1924.

10.
Leola Allard, “Agony of Mothers of Slayers and Slain in Tragedy of Crime,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 1 June 1924; Maurine Watkins, “‘Dick Innocent,’ Loebs Protest; Plan Defense,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 1 June 1924.

11.
Maureen McKernan, “Leopold Family a Big Factor in City’s Business,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 1 June 1924.

12.
“Re-Enact Franks Murder,”
Chicago Evening Post
, 31 May 1924; “Four Boys on Kidnaping List,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 1 June 1924.

13.
“‘Experience’ Seen as Motive,”
Chicago Daily News
, 2 June 1924; “Modernistic Books Made Slayers of Students, Rosenwald Theory,”
Chicago Daily Journal
, 2 June 1924.

14.
Irving Cutler,
The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 197–205; Lindsay Denison, “Leopold and Loeb Families Scored by Close Friend,”
The World
(New York), 5 June 1924.

15.
“Sad for Parents of Boys in Kidnaping,”
Chicago Daily News
, 31 May 1924.

16.
Slattery, “‘Hang Leopold and Loeb.’”

17.
Trial Transcript, fol. 158.

18.
Ibid., fol. 688; Charles V. Slattery, “Untold Tales in Franks Case,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 31 August 1924.

19.
Trial Transcript, fols. 476–477.

20.
Ibid., fols. 256–257.

21.
Ibid., fols. 258–259.

22.
Ibid., fols. 690, 691, 694.

23.
Orville Dwyer, “Clinch Youths’ Confessions,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 1 June 1924.

24.
Irving Stone,
Clarence Darrow for the Defense: A Biography
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1941), 380–381.

25.
“‘I Wrote Note, Loeb Killed Him,’ Says Leopold in First Interview,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 2 June 1924.

26.
“3000 See Search for Typewriter,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 2 June 1924.

27.
“‘I Wrote Note.’”

28.
Morrow Krum, “‘This’ll Be the Making of Me,’ Says Loeb Boy,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 2 June 1924.

29.
“‘I Wrote Note.’”

30.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 166–168.

31.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2645–2648; “Dr. Hugh T. Patrick,”
New York Times
, 6 January 1939.

32.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 170–180.

33.
Trial Transcript, fol. 3288; Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 180.

34.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3284–3286, 3337; “Deaths: William Otterbein Krohn,”
Illinois Medical Journal
52 (1927): 176; “Dr. W. O. Krohn, Noted Alienist, Taken by Death,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 11 July 1927.

35.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 185.

36.
Lewis J. Pollock, “A Tribute to Archibald Church,”
Quarterly Bulletin of Northwestern University Medical School
26 (1952): 293–294.

37.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 199–200.

38.
Ibid., fols. 240–241.

39.
Ibid., fols. 277–278.

40.
Ibid., fols. 265–266.

41.
Ibid., fols. 273–274.

42.
Ibid., fols. 275–277.

CHAPTER 8: CLARENCE DARROW

1.
Trial Transcript, fols. 4157–4158.

2.
Clarence Darrow to Robert R. Gros, 4 November 1933, Folder 4, Box 1, Robert Gros Collection, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

3.
“Is Held for Murder,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 30 October 1893; “His Habits Strange,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 15 December 1893; “Assassin Is on Trial,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 14 December 1893; “Gives Himself Up,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 29 October 1893.

4.
“Gives Himself Up.”

5.
“Harrison Is Killed,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 29 October 1893; “His Last Address,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 29 October 1893.

6.
“Harrison Is Killed.”

7.
“Gives Himself Up.”

8.
“Assassin Is on Trial”; “Believe Him Insane,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 16 December 1893; “Go Over to Defense,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 19 December 1893; “Assassin Must Die,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 30 December 1893.

9.
“Fighting for a Life,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 31 December 1893.

10.
M. L. Edgar, “Clarence S. Darrow,”
The Mirror
17 (16 May 1907): 13–14; Edward F. O’Day, “Clarence Darrow,”
Town Talk
20 (1 June 1912): 7, 23; “Who Is This Man Darrow?”
Current Literature
43 (August 1907): 157–159.