Murder Among Friends, page 27
“more pleasure than anything”: Dr. William Healy, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 3, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 2, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“despised by humanity”: Lucille Strauss, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“Do you swim?”: ibid.
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“No”: ibid.
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“are not right”: ibid.
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“jealous of the food and drink”: Dr. Bernard Glueck, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 3, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 2, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“Nobody liked Leopold”: Max Schrayer, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“I realized that if I could kid myself”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 201.
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“The only wrong I can do”: “Neuro-Psychiatric Examination of Nathan F. Leopold Jr.,” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 2, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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Chapter Five: Apart and Together
“I knew I should”: “Neuro-Psychiatric Examination of Nathan F. Leopold Jr.,” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 2, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“You don’t know what you’re talking about”: Arnold Maremont, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“You don’t understand him”: ibid.
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“totally gullible”: ibid.
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“What a miserable son of a bitch”: Abel Brown, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“He lied like hell”: Gardner Stern, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“We had the line on him”: Arnold Maremont, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“fishy”: Abel Brown, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“The actual sex”: “Neuro-Psychiatric Evaluation of Richard Loeb,” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 2, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“thrill of watching it”: ibid.
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“We took everything”: ibid.
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“When you came to my house”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr. to Richard Loeb, October 9, 1923, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 2, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“for Robert’s sake”: Dr. William Healy, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 3, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 2, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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Chapter Six: Planning the Perfect Crime
“Shared culpability”: Richard Loeb, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“We had several dozen”: Nathan Leopold, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“Do you know anyone”: Charles E. Ward, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 1, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“I don’t know anybody”: ibid.
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“Morton D. Ballard, traveling salesman”: ibid.
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a Mr. Louis Mason: William Herndon, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 1, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“Is this Mr. Louis Mason talking?”: Richard Loeb, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“Yes”: ibid.
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“Do you know”: ibid.
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“I’ve known him for years”: ibid.
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“You ought to come out”: Robert Asher, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“How would I get out there?”: ibid.
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“I’ll give you a lift”: ibid.
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“When?”: ibid.
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“How about next Wednesday”: ibid.
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“I have to go to the dentist”: ibid.
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“Well, maybe we could make it”: ibid.
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“Give me a pint”: Nathan Leopold, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“What do you need it for?”: ibid.
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“An experiment”: ibid.
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“Be sure and keep it upright”: ibid.
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“Can you do anything about it?”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 31.
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“You better be careful”: ibid.
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“I’d rather run into somebody”: ibid.
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PART THREE: TRACKING THE KILLERS
Chapter Seven: Thursday, May 22, 1924
Dear Sir: “First Ransom Note,” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 2, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“The money must be old”: ibid.
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“we can assure you”: ibid.
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“My God!”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 40.
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“We thought he might still be alive”: ibid.
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“Did you see anything else?”: ibid.
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“I knew if we just put our heads together”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr., “Life Plus 99 Years,” Chicago Daily News, November 4, 1957, 12.
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“We’ve been doing a bit of bootlegging”: “Clinches Youths’ Confessions,” Chicago Sunday Tribune, June 1, 1924, 1.
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“I am sending a Yellow Cab”: Nathan Leopold, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“Just a minute”: ibid.
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“Yes”: Edwin Gresham, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 1, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“Jake, it looks to me as if the worst has happened.”: “Kidnappers Slay Millionaire’s Son as $10,000 Ransom Waits,” Chicago Herald and Examiner, May 23, 1924, 1.
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“What do you mean?”: ibid.
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“Your boy is dead”: ibid.
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“Who sent you?”: Charles Robinson, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 2, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“A Mr. Franks called”: ibid.
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“Body of Boy Found in Swamp”: Chicago Daily Journal, May 22, 1924, 1.
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“When are those damn papers printed?”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr., “Original Manuscript of Life Plus 99 Years,” Nathan F. Leopold Papers, Series 4, Box 22, Chicago History Museum.
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“Hell, I don’t know”: ibid.
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“That was some swell place”: ibid.
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“The game [is] up”: ibid.
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“It [can] do no harm”: ibid.
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“Isn’t it terrible”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 48.
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“Whoever committed the crime”: Alvin H. Goldstein, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 1, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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Chapter Eight: Search for the Killers
“We must and will”: “Kidnap Rich Boy, Kill Him,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 23, 1924, 1.
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“dishonest, brutal, stupid men”: August Vollmer, “The Police (in Chicago),” in The Illinois Crime Survey, Chicago: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice, 1929, 360.
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“And they will hang!”: Herman Kogan, “Profile of Robert Crowe,” Chicago Sun-Times, August 20, 1942, in Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“load of nonsense”: ibid.
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“Society should have no hesitancy”: ibid.
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“If the police can catch”: ibid.
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“a general round-up of all persons”: James Doherty, “Kidnapped Boy Died Fighting,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 24, 1924, 1.
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“The man who wrote this letter”: “Expert Fixes on Kind of Machine Kidnapper Used,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 25, 1924, 1.
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“[Bobby Franks’s] father has nothing but money”: “Police Delve into Past of Boys’ Teachers,” Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 25, 1924, 2.
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“There are things going on”: “Pence Vouches for His 3 Instructors,” Chicago Evening American, May 23, 1924, 1.
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“Get the story!”: George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, Chicago: Follett, 1965, 85.
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“Wave a little blood around”: Burton Rascoe, Before I Forget, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937, 120.
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“The things we do”: ibid., 206.
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“One of the men”: “Question Woman in Franks Murder,” Chicago Daily Journal, May 26, 1924, 3.
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Chapter Nine: A Murderer’s Theory; A Coroner’s Inquest
“I don’t believe”: Howard Mayer, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“Why don’t we make the rounds”: ibid.
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“You see?”: ibid.
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“This is the place!”: ibid.
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“This is what comes from reading”: ibid.
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“If I were going to murder anybody”: “Cub Reporters Win Franks Case Glory,” Chicago Daily News, May 31, 1924, 1.
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“an official as notorious”: Robert G. Folsom, The Money Trail: How Elmer Irey and His T-Men Brought Down America’s Criminal Elite, Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2010, 57.
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“inexperienced [and their] examinations incomplete”: Ludwig Hektoen, “The Coroner (in Cook County),” in The Illinois Crime Survey, Chicago: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice, 1929, 381.
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“from an injury to the head”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 54.
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“no complete autopsy”: Ludwig Hektoen, “The Coroner (in Cook County),” in The Illinois Crime Survey, Chicago: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice, 1929, 382.
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“pervert”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 54.
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“The kidnappers could have had everything”: “Jacobs Most Controlled at Inquest,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 24, 1924, 2.
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“the best clue”: “Whose Spectacles Are These?,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 23, 1924, 1.
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“Hey, Dick”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr., Life Plus 99 Years, New York: Popular Library, 1958, 28.
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“This had better be”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr., “Original Manuscript of Life Plus 99 Years,” Nathan F. Leopold Papers, Series 4, Box 22, Chicago History Museum.
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“How in hell”: ibid.
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“despised by humanity”: Lucille Strauss, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“Do you swim?”: ibid.
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“No”: ibid.
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“are not right”: ibid.
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“jealous of the food and drink”: Dr. Bernard Glueck, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 3, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 2, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Nobody liked Leopold”: Max Schrayer, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“I realized that if I could kid myself”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 201.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“The only wrong I can do”: “Neuro-Psychiatric Examination of Nathan F. Leopold Jr.,” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 2, University Archives, Northwestern University.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
Chapter Five: Apart and Together
“I knew I should”: “Neuro-Psychiatric Examination of Nathan F. Leopold Jr.,” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 2, University Archives, Northwestern University.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“You don’t know what you’re talking about”: Arnold Maremont, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“You don’t understand him”: ibid.
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“totally gullible”: ibid.
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“What a miserable son of a bitch”: Abel Brown, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“He lied like hell”: Gardner Stern, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“We had the line on him”: Arnold Maremont, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“fishy”: Abel Brown, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
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“The actual sex”: “Neuro-Psychiatric Evaluation of Richard Loeb,” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 2, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“thrill of watching it”: ibid.
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“We took everything”: ibid.
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“When you came to my house”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr. to Richard Loeb, October 9, 1923, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 2, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“for Robert’s sake”: Dr. William Healy, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 3, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 2, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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Chapter Six: Planning the Perfect Crime
“Shared culpability”: Richard Loeb, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“We had several dozen”: Nathan Leopold, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“Do you know anyone”: Charles E. Ward, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 1, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“I don’t know anybody”: ibid.
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“Morton D. Ballard, traveling salesman”: ibid.
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a Mr. Louis Mason: William Herndon, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 1, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“Is this Mr. Louis Mason talking?”: Richard Loeb, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
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“Yes”: ibid.
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“Do you know”: ibid.
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“I’ve known him for years”: ibid.
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“You ought to come out”: Robert Asher, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“How would I get out there?”: ibid.
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“I’ll give you a lift”: ibid.
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“When?”: ibid.
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“How about next Wednesday”: ibid.
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“I have to go to the dentist”: ibid.
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“Well, maybe we could make it”: ibid.
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“Give me a pint”: Nathan Leopold, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“What do you need it for?”: ibid.
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“An experiment”: ibid.
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“Be sure and keep it upright”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Can you do anything about it?”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 31.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“You better be careful”: ibid.
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“I’d rather run into somebody”: ibid.
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PART THREE: TRACKING THE KILLERS
Chapter Seven: Thursday, May 22, 1924
Dear Sir: “First Ransom Note,” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Series 55/23, Box 2, University Archives, Northwestern University.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“The money must be old”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“we can assure you”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“My God!”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 40.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“We thought he might still be alive”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Did you see anything else?”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“I knew if we just put our heads together”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr., “Life Plus 99 Years,” Chicago Daily News, November 4, 1957, 12.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“We’ve been doing a bit of bootlegging”: “Clinches Youths’ Confessions,” Chicago Sunday Tribune, June 1, 1924, 1.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“I am sending a Yellow Cab”: Nathan Leopold, “Confessions and Other Statements of Leopold and Loeb (1924),” Harold S. Hulbert Papers, Box 3, University Archives, Northwestern University.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Just a minute”: ibid.
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“Yes”: Edwin Gresham, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 1, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“Jake, it looks to me as if the worst has happened.”: “Kidnappers Slay Millionaire’s Son as $10,000 Ransom Waits,” Chicago Herald and Examiner, May 23, 1924, 1.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“What do you mean?”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Your boy is dead”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Who sent you?”: Charles Robinson, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 2, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
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“A Mr. Franks called”: ibid.
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“Body of Boy Found in Swamp”: Chicago Daily Journal, May 22, 1924, 1.
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“When are those damn papers printed?”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr., “Original Manuscript of Life Plus 99 Years,” Nathan F. Leopold Papers, Series 4, Box 22, Chicago History Museum.
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“Hell, I don’t know”: ibid.
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“That was some swell place”: ibid.
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“The game [is] up”: ibid.
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“It [can] do no harm”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Isn’t it terrible”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 48.
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“Whoever committed the crime”: Alvin H. Goldstein, testimony, Leopold and Loeb Sentencing Hearing Transcript, Vol. 1, Leopold and Loeb Collection, Box 1, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
Chapter Eight: Search for the Killers
“We must and will”: “Kidnap Rich Boy, Kill Him,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 23, 1924, 1.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“dishonest, brutal, stupid men”: August Vollmer, “The Police (in Chicago),” in The Illinois Crime Survey, Chicago: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice, 1929, 360.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“And they will hang!”: Herman Kogan, “Profile of Robert Crowe,” Chicago Sun-Times, August 20, 1942, in Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“load of nonsense”: ibid.
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“Society should have no hesitancy”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“If the police can catch”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“a general round-up of all persons”: James Doherty, “Kidnapped Boy Died Fighting,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 24, 1924, 1.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“The man who wrote this letter”: “Expert Fixes on Kind of Machine Kidnapper Used,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 25, 1924, 1.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“[Bobby Franks’s] father has nothing but money”: “Police Delve into Past of Boys’ Teachers,” Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 25, 1924, 2.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“There are things going on”: “Pence Vouches for His 3 Instructors,” Chicago Evening American, May 23, 1924, 1.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Get the story!”: George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, Chicago: Follett, 1965, 85.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Wave a little blood around”: Burton Rascoe, Before I Forget, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937, 120.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“The things we do”: ibid., 206.
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“One of the men”: “Question Woman in Franks Murder,” Chicago Daily Journal, May 26, 1924, 3.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
Chapter Nine: A Murderer’s Theory; A Coroner’s Inquest
“I don’t believe”: Howard Mayer, interview, Hal Higdon Research Papers on the Leopold and Loeb Case, Series 4, Box 2, Chicago History Museum.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Why don’t we make the rounds”: ibid.
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“You see?”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“This is the place!”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“This is what comes from reading”: ibid.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“If I were going to murder anybody”: “Cub Reporters Win Franks Case Glory,” Chicago Daily News, May 31, 1924, 1.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“an official as notorious”: Robert G. Folsom, The Money Trail: How Elmer Irey and His T-Men Brought Down America’s Criminal Elite, Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2010, 57.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“inexperienced [and their] examinations incomplete”: Ludwig Hektoen, “The Coroner (in Cook County),” in The Illinois Crime Survey, Chicago: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice, 1929, 381.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“from an injury to the head”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 54.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“no complete autopsy”: Ludwig Hektoen, “The Coroner (in Cook County),” in The Illinois Crime Survey, Chicago: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice, 1929, 382.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“pervert”: Higdon, Leopold and Loeb, 54.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“The kidnappers could have had everything”: “Jacobs Most Controlled at Inquest,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 24, 1924, 2.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“the best clue”: “Whose Spectacles Are These?,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 23, 1924, 1.
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
“Hey, Dick”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr., Life Plus 99 Years, New York: Popular Library, 1958, 28.
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“This had better be”: Nathan F. Leopold Jr., “Original Manuscript of Life Plus 99 Years,” Nathan F. Leopold Papers, Series 4, Box 22, Chicago History Museum.
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“How in hell”: ibid.










