For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (73 page)

feeble-mindedness, 188, 249, 262

of Leopold and Loeb, 251, 267, 270, 305–38, 345–46, 356–57, 364–69, 397

manic depression, 250

melancholia, 250

neurology and, 264–65, 343–44

paranoia, 172, 250, 296, 306, 325–26, 366–67

psychoanalysis and psychoneurosis, 250, 265, 345

schizophrenia, 356, 368

senile dementia, 250

syphilis and, 200, 296, 351

Walter Bachrach on, 280

William Alanson White and concept of insanity, 266–67

Michael Strogoff
(Verne), 35

Michigan Central train, 63, 64, 93–95, 97

Middleton, Agnes, 188

Milburn electric automobile, 43

Mills, William Yancy, 363

Miner, Stanley, 19

Minke, Tony, 10–11, 13

testimony before grand jury, 233

Mitchell, Mott Kirk, 16, 17–18, 107–8, 113

meets Leopold on day following murder, 98–99

Moore, J. J., 251

Moran, Mayer, and Meyer attorneys, 202

Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 66, 68, 291

motive for murder

as cover-up for crimes (Crowe theory), 385–88

Leopold statement on, 91

ransom as, 22–23, 91, 156–57, 385–88

as sex killing, 380–81

as thrill killing, 91, 99, 156, 158, 385

as thirst for knowledge, 148

as unclear and inexplicable, 156–58, 251, 327, 371, 372–74, 437

Motley, John Lothrop, 35

Moyer, Charles, 180

Moyer, Harold, 191

Moynihan, Patrick H., 220

Muirhead, Stan, 55

Mulroy, James, 12, 100–102, 103, 463

links Underwood to Leopold, 120

Murder by Numbers
(film), 451

murder of Bobby Franks, 71, 75–87.
See also
motive for murder

blanket used in, 88, 104–5, 143

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

car used in, 65–68, 74, 76, 78, 81–83, 85–87, 91–93, 98, 127–30, 141, 291

cause of death, 11, 12, 234

clothes of Bobby Franks, 86, 88, 140, 143, 146, 149, 233, 290, 291

disposal of body, 84–87

eyeglasses as evidence in (
see
eyeglasses)

hydrochloric acid and, 11, 12, 17, 69–70, 86, 142

planning the murder, 60–65

weapon, 70, 75–76, 83–84, 89–90, 142 (
see also
murder weapon [chisel])

murder investigation, 15–26

alibis of Leopold and Loeb, 116–17, 119, 127–28

chauffeur’s testimony, 127–28

confessions of Leopold and Loeb, 131–43

drivers of gray Wintons questioned, 20

Ellis Avenue as site of abduction, 19, 23

evidence mounts against Leopold and Loeb, 119–26

evidence of sexual assault, 21, 382

eyeglasses and, 11, 12, 13, 20, 25–26, 87, 103, 104, 105, 110–11, 119, 131

gray Winton automobile sought, 19–21, 25

Harvard School teachers questioned, 16–18

Leopold and Loeb’s homosexuality and, 112, 119

Leopold questioned at Criminal Court Building, 112–17

Leopold questioned at Hotel LaSalle, 111

love letter from Leopold to Loeb found, 111–12, 117

motives sought, 21, 22–23

pedophiles sought, 21–22

police brutality and, 17, 18

ransom letter handwriting matches Leopold’s, 119

retracing of Leopold and Loeb’s steps on day of murder, 140–43

reward offered by family, 20

search of Leopold’s bedroom and study, 111–12

stains on corpse, 17

stalling of, 25

suspects (early), 16, 17–19, 113, 119

teachers’ alibis, 17

typewriter used in ransom letter, 16, 120–26

witness to the kidnapping, 19

murder weapon (chisel)

found by Bernard Hunt, 90

Loeb purchases, 70, 142

Loeb throws from car, 89–90

murder of Bobby Franks and, 83–84

stored at Leopold’s home, 75–76

Murray, George, 155

Murrow, Ed, 443

Myers, Johnston, 419

Nape, John, 211

Nash, Thomas, 296

National Security League, 183

Nervous and Mental Diseases
(Church and Peterson), 155, 351–52

neurology, 264–65

medical testing, 350–51

roentgenology, 350–51

Never the Sinner
(Logan), 451

Newark Evening News
, 410–11

Newman, Art, 440

Newman, Ralph, 444

newspapers.
See also specific newspapers
advertising the clues in, 20

Chicago’s, 462–64

coverage of Leopold and Loeb hearing, 272

coverage of Leopold and Loeb as suspects, 117–19

coverage of retrieval of evidence, 146–50

Crowe and Darrow argue their case in, 272, 288–89

Crowe and the media, 213, 214, 217, 235–36

Crowe post-verdict statement to, 405–6

Crowe press conference after confessions, 136

Haymarket bombing case and, 169

Leopold and Loeb gossip to reporters, 147–50

Loeb leads reporters to drugstore, 99–103

reaction to Leopold and Loeb verdict, 410–20

relationship of police and journalists, 146–47

reporter from
Chicago Daily News
, 12

reporters and families of Leopold and Loeb, 138

statement of fathers in Leopold and Loeb case, 238–39

New York Evening Journal
, 463

New York
Sun
, 396, 412–13

New York Times
, 398, 411–12

New York
World
, 119

Nietzsche, Friedrich, vii, 52, 54, 106, 259, 325, 406

Nitze, William, 73

Northwestern University, 151, 152, 153, 155, 191, 339, 344, 346

Nothing But the Night
(Yaffe), 450

Nottingham, Mack, 300–301

Oberndorf, Howard, 123, 124

O’Brien, James (Jimmy), 188, 200–201, 213

O’Brien, John (Smiling Jack), 363

O’Brien, William, 341–42

O’Donnell, Klondike, 425

O’Donnell, Myles, 425

Ogden Gas Company, 6

Olejniczak, Stanley, 12

O’Malley, Thomas, 152, 155

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin), 192

Orchard, Harry, 180

Organic Evolution
(Lull), 257

Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims
(Altgeld), 174–75

Owen, John, 273

Packard, Frank, 35

Packard Twin Six automobile, 77, 127

Paine Lumber Company, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 179

Pam, Hugo, 189, 213

Papritz, Adolph, 20

Parnassians, 73, 74

parole

of Art Newman, 440

character witnesses for Leopold, 441

job offers for Leopold, 439–40

Leopold eligibility, 433

Leopold released from (1963), 446–47

Leopold’s hearings and release, 433–43

Leopold’s participation in malaria testing and, 434–37

Leopold’s petition for clemency, 435, 436–37

public debate about concept of, 450

sentence and, 403, 404, 410, 414–15

Patrick, Hugh, 151–53, 349

cross-examination of, 353

interview of Leopold, 152

interview of Leopold and Loeb, 155, 156–61, 350

testimony in court hearing, 339, 344–46

Pence, Charles, 5, 16, 17

People’s Gas Light and Coke Company, 6

Peterson, Frederick, 155, 351–52

Pethick, George, 187

Pethick, Russell, 185–88, 440

Pettibone, George, 180

Philleo, Edward, 252

Plata, Edna, 16

plethysmograph, 252

Police Trial Board, 204

positivism, 194

Prendergast, Eugene, 166–68, 170–72

Principles of Geology
(Lyell), 192

Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment), 216, 218, 321

psychiatry.
See also
court hearing of Leopold and Loeb; mental illness

in America, 265–66, 420–21, 423

Bowman-Hulbert report on Leopold and Loeb, 312, 345–46, 354, 384, 385, 387

child guidance movement, 327

defense psychiatrists’ testimony, Leopold and Loeb case, 292–93, 303, 305–38, 342–46

defense’s psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb, 251–64

endocrinology and mental health, 247–51

Freudian psychoanalysis, 265, 420–21

intelligence tests, 262

neurology and, 348, 350–51

parent-child relationship and, 326–27

prosecution’s psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb, 151–61

psychoanalysis and psychoneurosis, 265, 348

reaction to sentencing of Leopold and Loeb and, 419–20

state’s cross-examination of psychiatric testimony in Leopold and Loeb hearing, 312–15, 318–19, 326–38

William Alanson White and enlarged role of, 266–68

Public School League, 222

Puerto Rico

Castaner hospital in, 439–40

Leopold in, 444–47

Pullman, George, 177, 178

Pullman Car Works, 177–78

Putthammer, Ernst, 74, 106–8

Quo Vadis
(Sienkiewicz), 34

Rabinowitz, Harry, 392–93

radio

broadcast of Leopold and Loeb trial proposed, 272–76

broadcast of verdict in Leopold and Loeb hearing, 400

infancy and role in American life, 273