For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (71 page)

recommends no bail, 237

Grant, Bernard, 359–62, 413–14

Grant, Mary, 414

Great Northern Railroad, 177

Greshan, Edwin, 13, 14, 120, 291, 399–400

Grimm, Herman, 35

Groesbeck, Alex, 55

Grogan, Bernard (Barney), 208–9

Guenther, George, 212

Guggenheimer, Untermyer, & Marshall law firm, 418

habeas corpus for Leopold and Loeb, 118, 120, 128, 143, 151, 230, 231–32

Hall, James Whitney, 214, 253, 270, 278

Halldorson, P. J., 273

Hamilton, Patrick, 449–50

Hancock (Michigan), 29

Hansen, Mary, 167

Harding, Warren, 209, 218

Harris, Adele, 139

Harris, Samuel, 79, 139

Harrison, Carter, 166–68

Hart, Pearl, 275

Hartman, Irving, 19, 21

Hartnett, Charles (Gabby), 395

Harvard School, Chicago, 32–33, 34, 78, 99

Bobby Franks at, 4, 5, 102

boys targeted by Leopold and Loeb, 68, 78–81

gray Winton automobile at, 19

Leopold attends, 32–33

Leopold takes boys birding, 105

Putthammer at, 107

search for Bobby Franks and, 6–7

teachers questioned, 16–18

Harvard University, 26, 105–6

Haymarket bombing case, 169–70, 175–76

Haywood, William (Big Bill), 180, 181

Healey, Charles, 183

Healy, William, 260–62, 265, 374, 420

psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb, 261–62

testimony in court hearing, 305

Hearst, William Randolph, 463

Hegewisch police station, 12

Heirens, William, 436

Heredia, José Maria de, 73

Herndon, William, 67

Hessville, 146, 147, 149

Heth, Lloyd, 214

Hettinger, Edward, 188–89

Hickson, William, 214, 253

Hirsch, Emil, 139

History of French Literature from the Earliest times to the Great War, A
(Dargan and Nitze), 73

Hitchcock, Alfred, 450

Hoffman, Frederick, 235

Hoffman, Peter, 239–42, 244, 282, 290, 397–98, 399

Hohley, Louise, 230, 231

Holgate, Thomas, 275

Hopkins, Jacob, 277

Hotel LaSalle, Chicago, 111–12

Hoyne, Maclay, 182, 186, 208

Hubinger, Albert, 142

Hughes, Michael, 8, 129, 132, 136, 141, 145, 146–47, 155, 233–34, 399

Hulbert, Harold, 246–56, 374

psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb, 251–56

report, 312, 345–46, 354, 384, 385, 387

testimony in court hearing, 327–34

threats against, 398

Hunt, Bernard, 90

Hyde Lake, 68–69, 113

Hyde Park State Bank, 65–66, 67

Igoe, Michael, 208–9

Illinois Central Railroad, 155

Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane, 155, 192, 392

indictment against Leopold and Loeb, 232–44

defense table, 240–41

eleven counts, murder charge, 234

prosecution table, 240

sixteen counts, kidnapping charge, 235

spectators at hearings, 239–40

Individual Delinquent, The
(Healy), 261, 305

Insanity and the Law: A Treatise on Forensic Psychiatry
(Krohn and Singer), 153, 355–57, 366, 367, 368

insanity defense

admission of responsibility by Leopold and Loeb, 158–61

case of Carl Wanderer, 212–13, 214

case of Edward Hettinger, 189

case of Emma Simpson, 190–92

case of Eugene Geary, 295–99, 396–97

case of Eugene Prendergast, 167–68

case of Frank Lowhone, 300–302

case of Warren Lincoln, 271

Crowe investigation of, 271–72

Crowe moves to block use in Leopold and Loeb case, 151–61, 236

Darrow rejects in Leopold and Loeb case, 278

Darrow’s use of, 189–92

Illinois law and, 154, 270, 284, 294–95

McNaughten rule, 154

Stanford White murder and, 268–69

temporary insanity in Leopold and Loeb case, 154

William Alanson White and concept of insanity, 266–67

intelligence tests, 262

International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, 181

I Ragionamenti
(Aretino), 125–26

Jacobs, Walter, 141

Jarecki, Edmund, 237

Jeffrey, Bert, 24

Jewish Daily News
, 419

Jewish People’s Institute, 221

Johnson, Frank, 109–10, 111, 142

Johnson, Jack, 241–42

Joliet Prison, 184, 189, 407, 427

Leopold and Loeb incarcerated in, 426–28

Leopold and Loeb sent to, 403, 406–9

warden, 408

Jones, Horry, 335

Jones metabolimeter, 251–52, 335–36

Kansas City Post
, 411

Kaub, Arthur, 319–20

Kemp, James, 97, 101–2

Kenna, Michael (Hinky Dink), 208

Kidd, Thomas, 179

Kipke, Harry, 56

Klon, Joe, 20

Knowles, Victor, 439

Korff, Paul, 11–12, 25, 115

Kramer’s Restaurant, 74

Krauser, Walter, 359–62

Krohn, William, 152–53, 349, 355, 366, 420

interview of Leopold and Loeb, 156–61, 350

testimony in court hearing, 339, 367

Krum, Morrow, 146, 148–49

Ku Klux Klan, 322–23

labor movement Darrow as attorney for, 166, 176, 179–82

Darrow defends Debs, 177–78

Darrow defends McNamara brothers, 180–82

Darrow defends Thomas Kidd, 179

Darrow defends WFM officials, 179–80

shuns Darrow, 182

Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Transportation Company, 30

Laune, Ferris, 429–30

Lawes, Lewis, 422

Lawson, Victor, 463

Leblanc, Maurice, 35

Lejeune, John Archer, 55

Leopold, Babette (grandmother), 30

Leopold, Florence (mother), 29, 30, 31, 47

Leopold, Michael (brother), 110–11, 143, 230, 306, 399, 437

Leopold, Nathan

activities after the murder, 89–90, 98–99

admission of responsibility for crime, 158–61

alcohol use, 58

alibi, 116–17, 119, 127–28

appearance, 29, 50, 280–81

arrest, 26

atheism, 138, 148, 341

attends Dargan lecture, day of murder, 72–74

attitude during questioning, 114, 117

autobiography of, 465

blood washed from car, 91–93

Bowman-Hulbert examination of, 246–56

boys targeted by, 78–81

braggadocio of, 52

breakfast while in custody, 145

called Babe, 50, 139, 145, 149

car of, red Willys-Knight, 56, 65, 75–78, 89–90, 127–28, 129, 233

car rental for murder, 65–68, 74, 76–78, 291

celebrity of, 395–96, 407

confession of, 133–34, 145, 146–47, 161, 235–36, 270

in Cook County jail, 228, 232, 247, 288, 340–41, 394–96, 405

in court, behavior, 240–41, 306, 332, 333

death of, 447

death of mother, effect of, 47

detectives bring in for questioning, 108, 109–11

disposal of body, 84–87

at Douglas School, 30–31, 309

egocentricity of, 27, 258, 259

elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 49

endocrinology of, 331–33

equipment for murder at home of, 75–76, 78

eyeglasses, 11, 12, 13, 25–26, 87, 103, 105, 110, 112, 113–15, 119

falls in love with Loeb, 43, 52

family history, 29–31

family’s disbelief about role in murder, 117–19, 126–27, 138

fantasies of, 45–46, 61, 256, 259, 264, 309–10, 317, 325, 345, 347, 354

feelings of superiority, 27, 52

Gertz as lawyer for, 439–43, 445–46

governess and, 31–32, 348

Hammond typewriter, 58, 121, 124

at Harvard School, 32–33

at Harvard University School of Law, 26

as homosexual, 47, 149, 264, 315–18, 380–83, 440–41

house (Greenwood Avenue), 28, 30, 32, 80, 89, 98, 109–10, 118, 121, 126–27, 143

hydrochloric acid and, 69–70, 86, 103, 142

illegal firearm found in bedroom, 111–12

insanity denied by, 254–55

intelligence of, 26, 33, 42, 47–50, 106, 255, 258–59, 262, 344, 465

in Joliet Prison, 406–9, 426–27

Judaism of, 26, 47, 139–40

kidnapping of Bobby Franks, 81–83, 85

lack of remorse, 147, 148, 259, 261, 290, 321, 356, 433

law exams taken by, 105–6

law study group, 120–25

lawsuit against movie
Compulsion
, 445–46

letter to Loeb found by police, 111, 117

linked to other crimes, 229–31

Loeb pins murder on, 147–48, 156

malaria and, 434–35

marriage to Trudi Feldman, 446–47

meets Darrow, 228–29

meets Loeb, 33–34, 315

as mentally diseased, 251, 267, 270, 305–38, 345–46, 356–57, 364–69, 397

motive for murder, 91, 99, 148, 156–57, 158, 251, 327, 371, 372–74, 380–81, 385–88, 437

murder of Bobby Franks, 75–87

murder of Bobby Franks, planning of, 60–61, 62–65, 74

murder of Loeb and, 432

musical ability, 340

Nietzsche’s superman and, 52, 54, 106, 259, 325, 406

ornithology and bird collection, 33, 49–50, 62, 68–69, 103, 104, 105, 118, 395

parole hearings and release, 433–43

as partner in Loeb’s criminality, 43, 45, 53, 56–58, 60–65

personality, 41–42, 110, 145, 148, 405