For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (74 page)

Ragen, Joseph, 432–34

ransom

as aggravating factor in punishment, 364–65

drugstore on 63rd Street and, 63, 64, 93, 96

handwriting on letter matches Leopold’s, 119

Leopold and Loeb purchase stationery, 69

letter, 9–10, 12, 70–71, 87–88, 119

Loeb leads reporters to drugstore, 99–103

Loeb wants to abandon plan, 96–97, 310

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

model for letter in detective story, 71

as motive, 22–23, 91, 156–57, 385–88

payment, 14–15

phone calls from kidnapper, 7, 14, 17, 63, 88–89

plan goes awry, 94–98

planning, 60–61, 63–65, 68, 93–94, 156–57

trace on phone line, 12

Underwood typewriter used for letter, 70

Rationalist Society of Chicago, 195

Ream, Charles, 229, 231

Reckas, Harry, 295–96

Reform Judaism, 139–40

Rent-A-Car Company, 67, 76–77, 98, 141, 291

Republican Party (Chicago), 6, 204–5

Big Bill Thompson in, 203

Crowe in, 202

Crowe’s falling star in, 426

factionalism in, 205, 206–7, 219, 224

Lundin corruption trial, 161

machine politics and, 218

violence at polls, 207

Riese, John Henry, 363

Rise of the Dutch Republic, The
(Motley), 35

Robbins, Helen, 74

Roberts, Mary-Carter, 450

Rockefeller, John D., 76

roentgenology, 350–51

Roosevelt, Theodore, 76

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 55

Rope
(film), 450, 453

Rope
(Hamilton), 449–50

Rosehill Cemetery, 24, 25

Rosen, Sam, 240

Rosenwald, Julius, 34, 39, 78

Rosenwald, Lessing, 139

Ross drugstore, 63rd Street, 63, 64, 93, 96, 97

James Kemp gets phone call from Nathan, 97

Loeb leads reporters to drugstore, 99–103

Row, Harold, 439–40

Ruse, David, 296

Ryan, Patrick, 6

St. Elizabeths Hospital (Government Hospital for the Insane), 249, 257, 262–63, 305, 307, 421

St. Louis Globe-Democrat
, 415–16

St. Paul Dispatch
, 412

St. Xavier’s Academy, 23

Sandburg, Carl, 441

San Francisco
Bulletin
, 411

San Francisco Chronicle
, 420

Sarascio, Salvatore, 141

Sattler, Elizabeth, 121, 126

Saturday Evening Post
, 441

Savage, Joseph, 112, 122–25, 129, 132, 136, 155, 160, 240, 268–69, 271, 290–91, 464, 465

on death penalty, 358–59

Sbarbaro, John, 129, 132, 135–36, 155, 160, 240, 271

questioning of Archibald Church, 346–47

questioning of Hugh Patrick, 344–46

questioning of William Krohn, 342–44

Scherer, Ferdinand, 285, 330

Schimberg, Theodore, 28

Schlapp, Max, 420

Schmaltz, Sammy, 387

Schroeder, Barbet, 451

Schultz, Thomas, 363

scientism, 192–96

Scopes, John T., 423–24

Scott, Russell, 397

Sears, Roebuck, 39, 78, 139

Albert Loeb as vice president, 34, 39, 221

Seass, James, 79

See It Now
(TV show), 443

sentencing of Leopold and Loeb

Caverly delivers verdict, 399–403

Caverly fails to state whether concurrent or consecutive, 414–15, 417

date set for, 390

parole possibility, 403, 404, 410, 414–15, 433

as precedent, 418

public reaction to, 410–20

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 34

Shanberg, Morris, 123–24

Shapino, Anton, 12

Shoemacher, William (Shoes), 8, 121, 132, 135, 141, 155

Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 34

Sign of the Four, The
(Doyle), 35

Simpson, Emma, 190–92

Sinai Congregation, 139

Singer, Harold, 366, 367

Darrow’s cross-examination of, 355–57

testimony in court hearing, 339, 354–55

Single Tax Club, 169

Sing Sing Prison, 263, 422

Sissman, Peter, 182

Small, Len, 218, 414, 415

Smietanka, Julius, 236–37

Smith, Milton, 112, 143, 155, 271

questioning of Harold Singer, 354–55

Society for the Study of Internal Secretions, 248

Souders, Ralph, 360–61, 413

Souvenirs Entomologiques
(Fabre), 195

Spaides School, 31

Spencer, Herbert, 192

Springer, Joseph, 21, 234, 291

Stanton, Walter, 397

Stateville Prison, 427–28

architecture of, 428, 429

Leopold in, 427–43

Loeb in, 428–32

malaria testing at, 434–35

murder of Loeb, 430–32

school at, 433–34

warden, 429, 432, 433–34

Steger, Herb, 55

Stein, Sidney, 69, 105

Steunenberg, Frank, 179–80, 181

Stevenson, Adlai, 436–37

Stranberg, H. C., 69

Struthers, Emily, 34–36, 38–41, 42, 51, 258, 308, 348

Sukov, Martin, 441

Sullivan, Phillip L., 276

Sullivan, Walter, 146, 148

Sully-Prudhomme, René, 73

Sunday, Billy, 319

Sunset Club, 168

Sutton, Hugh, 16

Swanson, John, 426

Sweitzer, Robert, 203

Swoon
(film), 451

Talley, Alfred, 422

Tamis, Jim, 85

Tariff Reform Convention, 169

Tennes, Mont, 182

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 34

Thaw, Harry, 268–69, 415

Thelin, Blaine, 222

Thelin, Titus, 222

Thompson, Alice, 187

Thompson, Hans, 232

Thompson, John, 419

Thompson, William Hale (Big Bill), 6, 202–3, 204, 205, 209–10, 219, 222, 463

Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story
(musical drama), 451

Titzel, Walter, 220

Tracy, Freeman, 229–30, 231

Trinz, Joseph, 394

Tripple, Leonard, 296

Tucker, Leonard, 98

Underwood typewriter, 16

Leopold disposes of, 104, 143

Leopold maid remembers it at Leopold house, 121, 126

linked to Leopold, 120–26

ransom letter typed on, 70, 71, 126

search for, 146

stolen from Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 57–58, 71

Union Pacific Railroad, 177

United States

crime wave following World War I, 215

morality of the 1920s, 319–23, 341–42, 376

Prohibition, 321

public opinion in Leopold and Loeb case, 319–23

United States District Court

case of Eugene Debs, 177

Darrow applies for writ of habeas corpus in Prendergast case, 171

University of Michigan

Leopold at, 47

University Elementary School, 35

University High School

Leopold takes students birding, 105, 108

Loeb at, 36–40, 258

University of Cambridge, 76

University of Chicago

Campus Club, 42

Circolo Italiano, 48

Dargan’s lecture on Parnassians, 72–74

description of, 28–29

distance from Leopold home, 28

Ferry Field, 54, 55

Harvard School graduates at, 33

Haskell Hall, 75

Hutchinson Commons, 42

James Seass at, 79

Law School, 50, 75, 76

Leopold at, 26, 47–50, 258

Leopold at Law School, 51, 62

Leopold enters at age fifteen, 28, 33

Loeb enters at age fourteen, 34, 38, 40–41

Loeb in graduate course at, 51, 62

Loeb’s mediocre academic record, 41

Undergraduate Classical Club, 48–49

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 58, 120

University of Illinois, 56

University of Michigan

football game, Marines vs.

Wolverines, 54–56

football season, 1924, 55

Leopold at, 47, 49

Loeb at, 46–47, 50–51

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 47, 56–58, 71

University of Wisconsin, 56

Uteritz, Irwin, 55

Vahle, Beatrice, 274

Valanis, Anna, 418

Valanis, Anthony, 418

Van De Bogert, Percy, 97

Vandervoort, Ed, 55

Vaubel, George, 16

Verlaine, Paul, 73

Verne, Jules, 35

Viani, Nicholas, 363

Walgreen’s drugstore, 88–89, 96

Wallace, Lew, 34

Wanderer, Carl, 210–14

Wanderer, Ruth, 210–11, 212

Wantz, Mathilda (Sweetie), 31–32, 348

Ward, Charles, 65–66

Washington
Evening Star
, 420, 450

Watkins, Maurine, 326

Watkins, Rachel, 186

Wayman, John, 202

Webster, John, 155

Wedemaier, Gus, 190

Weir, Eligius, 441

Welles, Orson, 445, 450–51

Wellesley College, 4

Welling, Robert, 8–9

Wendell Phillips School, 33

Westbrook, Wesley, 247, 255, 340, 395

Western Federation of Miners (WFM), 166, 179–80

WGN radio, 272, 274, 276

broadcast of verdict, 400

Wharton, Charles, 17

Whipp, Frank, 429

White, Stanford, 268–69, 415

White, William Alanson, 256–60, 262, 265, 374, 420

aftermath of Leopold and Loeb case, 420–21

American psychiatry and, 266–68

appearance of, 256, 307

credentials, 256–57

cross-examination of, 312–15