For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (60 page)

42.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fols. 92, 93–94; Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fols. 85–86, 92–93.

43.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fol. 139; William Alanson White Notes (Leopold), fol. 17; Trial Transcript, fols. 1386–1387.

44.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fols. 63–64; Trial Transcript, fols. 1329–1330, 1484–1485, 1703.

45.
Trial Transcript, fol. 1485.

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46.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fols. 66–68; Trial Transcript, fols. 1486, 1704.

47.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fols. 67, 133; Trial Transcript, fols. 1486–1487.

48.
Trial Transcript, fols. 1337–1338, 1706.

49.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fols. 26–27.

50.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fols. 28–29, 46, 89–90; Nathan F. Leopold Jr.,
Life Plus 99 Years
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), 112; Minutes of Phi chapter, Zeta Beta Tau, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

51.
“Differed in College Life,”
New York Times
, 2 June 1924.

52.
“Il Circolo Italiano,”
Cap and Gown
28 (1923): 186.

53.
“The Undergraduate Classical Club,”
Cap and Gown
28 (1923): 167.

54.
Official Transcript (Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr.), Office of the Registrar, University of Chicago.

55.
“Honorary Order Elects Fifteen to Membership,”
Daily Maroon
(Chicago), 16 March 1923.

56.
Nathan F. Leopold Jr., “Reason and Instinct in Bird Migration,”
The Auk
40 (July 1923): 409–414; Nathan F. Leopold Jr., “The Kirtland’s Warbler in Its Summer Home,”
The Auk
41 (January 1924): 44–58; Leopold,
Life Plus 99 Years
, 171.

57.
Official Transcript (Richard A. Loeb), Office of the Registrar, University of Michigan; “Richard Loeb of Chicago Michigan’s Youngest Grad,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 1 June 1923.

58.
Trial Transcript, fols. 1776–1777, 1795, 1833, 1835–1837, 1917, 1920, 1922–1923.

59.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fol. 46.

60.
Trial Transcript, fols. 1857–1858, 1927–1928, 1941–1942, 1945–1947, 1949–1954.

61.
Ibid., fols. 1672–1673.

CHAPTER 3: PLANNING THE MURDER

1.
Nathan Leopold Jr. to Richard Loeb, 10 October 1923, quoted in Trial Transcript, fol. 3815.

2.
“2,000 Marines Go to Michigan with Team,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 9 November 1923; “Wolverines, Marines in Grid War Today,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 10 November 1923.

3.
“2,000 Marines”; Sam Greene, “Michigan-Marine Corps Game Saturday Certain to Be Colorful Spectacle,”
Detroit Free Press
, 10 November 1923.

4.
“Denby Watches Michigan Trim Marines, 26 to 6,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 11 November 1923; Lloyd Northard, “Amid Pomp and Ceremony Michigan Scores over Quantico Marines, 26 to 6,”
Detroit Free Press
, 11 November 1923.

5.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fols. 87–88.

6.
Ibid., fol. 88.

7.
Ibid., fol. 89.

8.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fol. 96.

9.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fol. 89.

10.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fol. 97.

11.
Ibid.; Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fol. 94.

12.
Trial Transcript, fols. 1449–1450; Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fols. 94–95.

13.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fols. 98–99; Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fol. 98.

14.
William Alanson White Notes (Leopold), fols. 16–17; Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fols. 59, 100; Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fol. 101.

15.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fol. 100; Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fol. 103.

16.
Bowman-Hulbert Report (Loeb), fol. 105; Bowman-Hulbert Report (Leopold), fols. 100–101.

17.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 8:20 p.m., fol. 297.

18.
Trial Transcript, fol. 125.

19.
Ibid., fol. 126.

20.
Ibid., fols. 113–117, 121–122.

21.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 47; Trial Transcript, fols. 155, 163.

22.
Trial Transcript, fol. 163.

23.
Ibid., fols. 144–146.

24.
Ibid., fols. 148–151.

25.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 204.

26.
Ibid., fol. 205.

27.
Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 1:35 a.m., fol. 363.

28.
Ibid., fol. 363.

29.
Ibid., fol. 366.

30.
Leopold Loeb Statement on Trip to South Side, 1 June 1924, fols. 156–158.

31.
“State Shows Every Step in Its Proof before Grand Jury,”
Chicago Daily Journal
, 4 June 1924; Adler Statement, 2 June 1924, 12:40 a.m., fols. 333, 335–336, 337–338, 341, 344.

32.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 51.

33.
Christopher B. Booth, “The Kidnaping Syndicate,”
Detective Story Magazine
66 (3 May 1924): 1–47, on pp. 26, 36–37; “Franks Death Letter Like Current Story in Magazine,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 24 May 1924.

CHAPTER 4: THE MURDER

1.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 66.

2.
Walter Scott Hastings,
Edwin Preston Dargan, 1879
–
1940: American Critic and Man of Letters
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941).

3.
George R. Havens, “E. Preston Dargan: A Career of Scholarship (1879–1940),”
Books Abroad
(Autumn 1941): 412–415.

4.
Ibid., 414–415.

5.
Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 10:30 p.m., fols. 447–449.

6.
Ibid., fol. 406; Leopold Statement, 30 May 1924, 10:30 p.m., fols. 446–447, 491–492.

7.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 211.

8.
Ibid., fols. 212–214.

9.
Ibid., fol. 213.

10.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 55; Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 213–214; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fols. 10–12.

11.
Trial Transcript, fols. 262–263.

12.
Additional Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 1:00 a.m., fol. 513–514; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fol. 17.

13.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 56.

14.
“Four Boys on Kidnaping List,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 1 June 1924; “Young Millionaires Tell How They Killed Franks,”
Chicago Daily Journal
, 31 May 1924.

15.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 56.

16.
Ibid., fols. 56–57; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fols. 16–17.

17.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 215.

18.
Trial Transcript, fols. 668–669.

19.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fols. 57–58.

20.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 215–216.

21.
Ibid., fol. 217.

22.
Ibid., fols. 217–218.

23.
Ibid., fol. 219.

24.
“Have You Seen These Clothes Worn by Boy?”
Chicago American
, 23 May 1924.

25.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 248.

26.
Ibid., fols. 220, 248; Trial Transcript, fol. 35; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fols. 5, 20–21.

27.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 221, 248.

28.
Ibid., fol. 249; Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 68.

29.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 224.

30.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 63.

31.
Ibid., fols. 64, 66.

32.
Ibid., fols. 65, 66.

33.
Ibid., fol. 67; Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 232–233.

34.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 68.

35.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 233–234.

36.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 68; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fol. 25.

37.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 68; Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 234.

38.
Leopold Loeb Statement on Trip to South Side, 1 June 1924, fols. 157–158.

39.
“Moron Theory Gains Favor in Franks Murder Inquiry,”
Chicago Daily Journal
, 23 May 1924.

40.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 69; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fol. 24.

41.
Trial Transcript, fols. 234–237; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fols. 25–26; Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fols. 235, 236.

CHAPTER 5: THE RANSOM

1.
Leopold Loeb Statement, 1 June 1924, 2:50 p.m., fol. 278.

2.
Trial Transcript, fols. 265–267; Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 70; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fols. 9, 27; “Clinch Youths’ Confessions,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 1 June 1924.

3.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 71.

4.
Ibid., fol. 72; Trial Transcript, fols. 292–293; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fol. 7.

5.
Leopold Statement, 2 June 1924, 12:01 a.m., fols. 327–328.

6.
Loeb Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:00 a.m., fol. 73; Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fol. 8; Nathan F. Leopold Jr.,
Life Plus 99 Years
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), 28.

7.
Leopold Loeb Statement on Trip to South Side, 1 June 1924, fols. 164–165.

8.
Trial Transcript, fols. 365–366

9.
Leopold Statement, 31 May 1924, 4:20 a.m., fol. 28.