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...Leopold and Loeb were unusually bright scholastic lights), he was charged with 24 burglaries, four assaults with intent to murder, and one assault and robbery. He was also suspected of having shot and stabbed to death ex-WAVE Frances Brown; of having strangled and dissected six-year-old Suzanne Degnan; of having shot and stabbed Mrs. Josephine Ross, a Chicago widow, when she surprised him looting her apartment. The papers declared that he had made an oral confession of all three murders while lulled by a "truth serum" (sodium pentothal). Bill insisted that he could neither rob nor murder...
Swaggering Sneak. On the night of Jan. 6, with the murders of Miss Brown and Mrs. Ross behind him, George came swaggering into Bill's room and made him help plan the murder of little Suzanne Degnan. Then he made Bill give him the paper on which the ransom note was written. Bill sweated with anxiety all night, and the next morning there it was in the papers...
Confessional Clichés. As a running news story, it was short on facts. Fingerprints seemed to tie 17-year-old Collegian William George Heirens to the brutal Suzanne Degnan murder, perhaps to a couple of others. When word got around that he had talked (after an injection of sodium pentothal), headline writers" decided it was a confession, dusted off their favorite cliches about "truth serums...
Hearstpapers illustrated her "thrilling, analytical stories" with Burris Jenkins cartoons and pictures of plump, popeyed Craig Rice looking for clues-i) in the Herald-American morgue, 2) crouched over the washtub where Suzanne Degnan's body was dissected. "I've fought like hell with the American, and I got so mad at Reutlinger that I almost punched him in the puss," said she. "But they're going to go along with me. . . . Heirens didn't do this. Call it woman's intuition. But if he did, then I'll just pack my bags quietly...
Score: Cornell 34, Harvard 23. Goals: Houck 5, Ferraro 4, Freed 4, Boys 4, Grady 3, Ernst 1, Merry 1, Voelker 1, Freed 1, Houck 1. Referee: T. Degnan. Time: Two 20 minute periods...