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Authors: Simon Baatz

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recommends no bail, 237

Grant, Bernard, 359–62, 413–14

Grant, Mary, 414

Great Northern Railroad, 177

Greshan, Edwin, 13, 14, 120, 291, 399–400

Grimm, Herman, 35

Groesbeck, Alex, 55

Grogan, Bernard (Barney), 208–9

Guenther, George, 212

Guggenheimer, Untermyer, & Marshall law firm, 418

habeas corpus for Leopold and Loeb, 118, 120, 128, 143, 151, 230, 231–32

Hall, James Whitney, 214, 253, 270, 278

Halldorson, P. J., 273

Hamilton, Patrick, 449–50

Hancock (Michigan), 29

Hansen, Mary, 167

Harding, Warren, 209, 218

Harris, Adele, 139

Harris, Samuel, 79, 139

Harrison, Carter, 166–68

Hart, Pearl, 275

Hartman, Irving, 19, 21

Hartnett, Charles (Gabby), 395

Harvard School, Chicago, 32–33, 34, 78, 99

Bobby Franks at, 4, 5, 102
boys targeted by Leopold and Loeb, 68, 78–81
gray Winton automobile at, 19
Leopold attends, 32–33
Leopold takes boys birding, 105
Putthammer at, 107
search for Bobby Franks and, 6–7
teachers questioned, 16–18

Harvard University, 26, 105–6

Haymarket bombing case, 169–70, 175–76

Haywood, William (Big Bill), 180, 181

Healey, Charles, 183

Healy, William, 260–62, 265, 374, 420

psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb, 261–62
testimony in court hearing, 305

Hearst, William Randolph, 463

Hegewisch police station, 12

Heirens, William, 436

Heredia, José Maria de, 73

Herndon, William, 67

Hessville, 146, 147, 149

Heth, Lloyd, 214

Hettinger, Edward, 188–89

Hickson, William, 214, 253

Hirsch, Emil, 139

History of French Literature from the Earliest times to the Great War, A
(Dargan and Nitze), 73

Hitchcock, Alfred, 450

Hoffman, Frederick, 235

Hoffman, Peter, 239–42, 244, 282, 290, 397–98, 399

Hohley, Louise, 230, 231

Holgate, Thomas, 275

Hopkins, Jacob, 277

Hotel LaSalle, Chicago, 111–12

Hoyne, Maclay, 182, 186, 208

Hubinger, Albert, 142

Hughes, Michael, 8, 129, 132, 136, 141, 145, 146–47, 155, 233–34, 399

Hulbert, Harold, 246–56, 374

psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb, 251–56
report, 312, 345–46, 354, 384, 385, 387
testimony in court hearing, 327–34
threats against, 398

Hunt, Bernard, 90

Hyde Lake, 68–69, 113

Hyde Park State Bank, 65–66, 67

Igoe, Michael, 208–9

Illinois Central Railroad, 155

Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane, 155, 192, 392

indictment against Leopold and Loeb, 232–44

defense table, 240–41
eleven counts, murder charge, 234
prosecution table, 240
sixteen counts, kidnapping charge, 235
spectators at hearings, 239–40

Individual Delinquent, The
(Healy), 261, 305

Insanity and the Law: A Treatise on Forensic Psychiatry
(Krohn and Singer), 153, 355–57, 366, 367, 368

insanity defense

admission of responsibility by Leopold and Loeb, 158–61
case of Carl Wanderer, 212–13, 214
case of Edward Hettinger, 189
case of Emma Simpson, 190–92
case of Eugene Geary, 295–99, 396–97
case of Eugene Prendergast, 167–68
case of Frank Lowhone, 300–302
case of Warren Lincoln, 271
Crowe investigation of, 271–72
Crowe moves to block use in Leopold and Loeb case, 151–61, 236
Darrow rejects in Leopold and Loeb case, 278
Darrow’s use of, 189–92
Illinois law and, 154, 270, 284, 294–95
McNaughten rule, 154
Stanford White murder and, 268–69
temporary insanity in Leopold and Loeb case, 154
William Alanson White and concept of insanity, 266–67

intelligence tests, 262

International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, 181

I Ragionamenti
(Aretino), 125–26

Jacobs, Walter, 141

Jarecki, Edmund, 237

Jeffrey, Bert, 24

Jewish Daily News
, 419

Jewish People’s Institute, 221

Johnson, Frank, 109–10, 111, 142

Johnson, Jack, 241–42

Joliet Prison, 184, 189, 407, 427

Leopold and Loeb incarcerated in, 426–28
Leopold and Loeb sent to, 403, 406–9
warden, 408

Jones, Horry, 335

Jones metabolimeter, 251–52, 335–36

Kansas City Post
, 411

Kaub, Arthur, 319–20

Kemp, James, 97, 101–2

Kenna, Michael (Hinky Dink), 208

Kidd, Thomas, 179

Kipke, Harry, 56

Klon, Joe, 20

Knowles, Victor, 439

Korff, Paul, 11–12, 25, 115

Kramer’s Restaurant, 74

Krauser, Walter, 359–62

Krohn, William, 152–53, 349, 355, 366, 420

interview of Leopold and Loeb, 156–61, 350
testimony in court hearing, 339, 367

Krum, Morrow, 146, 148–49

Ku Klux Klan, 322–23

labor movement Darrow as attorney for, 166, 176, 179–82

Darrow defends Debs, 177–78
Darrow defends McNamara brothers, 180–82
Darrow defends Thomas Kidd, 179
Darrow defends WFM officials, 179–80
shuns Darrow, 182

Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Transportation Company, 30

Laune, Ferris, 429–30

Lawes, Lewis, 422

Lawson, Victor, 463

Leblanc, Maurice, 35

Lejeune, John Archer, 55

Leopold, Babette (grandmother), 30

Leopold, Florence (mother), 29, 30, 31, 47

Leopold, Michael (brother), 110–11, 143, 230, 306, 399, 437

Leopold, Nathan

activities after the murder, 89–90, 98–99
admission of responsibility for crime, 158–61
alcohol use, 58
alibi, 116–17, 119, 127–28
appearance, 29, 50, 280–81
arrest, 26
atheism, 138, 148, 341
attends Dargan lecture, day of murder, 72–74
attitude during questioning, 114, 117
autobiography of, 465
blood washed from car, 91–93
Bowman-Hulbert examination of, 246–56
boys targeted by, 78–81
braggadocio of, 52
breakfast while in custody, 145
called Babe, 50, 139, 145, 149
car of, red Willys-Knight, 56, 65, 75–78, 89–90, 127–28, 129, 233
car rental for murder, 65–68, 74, 76–78, 291
celebrity of, 395–96, 407
confession of, 133–34, 145, 146–47, 161, 235–36, 270
in Cook County jail, 228, 232, 247, 288, 340–41, 394–96, 405
in court, behavior, 240–41, 306, 332, 333
death of, 447
death of mother, effect of, 47
detectives bring in for questioning, 108, 109–11
disposal of body, 84–87
at Douglas School, 30–31, 309
egocentricity of, 27, 258, 259
elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 49
endocrinology of, 331–33
equipment for murder at home of, 75–76, 78
eyeglasses, 11, 12, 13, 25–26, 87, 103, 105, 110, 112, 113–15, 119
falls in love with Loeb, 43, 52
family history, 29–31
family’s disbelief about role in murder, 117–19, 126–27, 138
fantasies of, 45–46, 61, 256, 259, 264, 309–10, 317, 325, 345, 347, 354
feelings of superiority, 27, 52
Gertz as lawyer for, 439–43, 445–46
governess and, 31–32, 348
Hammond typewriter, 58, 121, 124
at Harvard School, 32–33
at Harvard University School of Law, 26
as homosexual, 47, 149, 264, 315–18, 380–83, 440–41
house (Greenwood Avenue), 28, 30, 32, 80, 89, 98, 109–10, 118, 121, 126–27, 143
hydrochloric acid and, 69–70, 86, 103, 142
illegal firearm found in bedroom, 111–12
insanity denied by, 254–55
intelligence of, 26, 33, 42, 47–50, 106, 255, 258–59, 262, 344, 465
in Joliet Prison, 406–9, 426–27
Judaism of, 26, 47, 139–40
kidnapping of Bobby Franks, 81–83, 85
lack of remorse, 147, 148, 259, 261, 290, 321, 356, 433
law exams taken by, 105–6
law study group, 120–25
lawsuit against movie
Compulsion
, 445–46
letter to Loeb found by police, 111, 117
linked to other crimes, 229–31
Loeb pins murder on, 147–48, 156
malaria and, 434–35
marriage to Trudi Feldman, 446–47
meets Darrow, 228–29
meets Loeb, 33–34, 315
as mentally diseased, 251, 267, 270, 305–38, 345–46, 356–57, 364–69, 397
motive for murder, 91, 99, 148, 156–57, 158, 251, 327, 371, 372–74, 380–81, 385–88, 437
murder of Bobby Franks, 75–87
murder of Bobby Franks, planning of, 60–61, 62–65, 74
murder of Loeb and, 432
musical ability, 340
Nietzsche’s superman and, 52, 54, 106, 259, 325, 406
ornithology and bird collection, 33, 49–50, 62, 68–69, 103, 104, 105, 118, 395
parole hearings and release, 433–43
as partner in Loeb’s criminality, 43, 45, 53, 56–58, 60–65
personality, 41–42, 110, 145, 148, 405
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