Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...
...University of Michigan's youngest graduate, called at the Franks home to offer condolences, helped police search for clues. Leopold, a brilliant law student at the University of Chicago and at 18 an ornithologist of repute, continued with his bird-study classes. Ten days after the murder the case suddenly broke when a pair of glasses found at the scene of the crime were identified as Leopold's, and Loeb and Leopold blandly confessed that they had killed Bobby Franks "for a thrill." In one of his greatest forensic efforts, Lawyer Clarence Darrow threw his clients...
...body. In Chicago, a force of detectives kept the public away from the funeral parlor, and a cordon of police turned all comers away from the cemetery. Thereupon a rumor swept through the city that Loeb had not been killed at all, that the whole tale of murder and burial was a fabrication by which his family had at last bought his way to freedom. That made Warden Ragen laugh. Said he: "You don't need to worry any more about Loeb...
...Samurai Son Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26). His defense was that General Nagata had been a friend of Japanese Government "bureaucrats," politicians, businessmen and other chicken-hearted civilians despised by the Fighting Services. Counsel for the defense loudly objected to the Prosecution's failure to state in the murder charge "the difference between public and private acts, the intrinsic nature of the Imperial Army, and the fact that the Supreme Army Command had been disturbed by Senior Statesmen and plutocrats...
...first shock comes when he learns that his father is a narcotic addict. Then he discovers that during his college days, at a fraternity initiation, his father had accidentally killed a man. To complete his disillusionment, he realizes that Jim, for all his friendliness and gayety, may eventually murder his father for money...