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PO FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) 1 Gae Clue Poeclhis BUGS Qs tee LA tulip (2 p 72D. hs 3 Lk a i Bop yh HET INES SIS (Indicate page, name of Oe whl ie ered bis ty oe” bb NTU 2 &, Nee & newspaper, city and state.) It was a pair of horn-rimmedycriptions for spectacles; the glasses of “peculiar construe- state’s attorney’s force finaily tion” that led Chicago authori- eliminated all bul four which tics to Nathan Leopold, then 19, called for spectacles the same and Richard Loeb, then 18, slay-|@5 those found alongside the ers of 14-year-old Robby Franks} >0dy. : on May 21, 1924. Of the quartet, officers seized This similerity to the Sharonlupon Leopold who nearly con. Tate murder case here was re-|vinced authorities he had lost called as police revealed they{them on a bird-study trip. found a pair of horn-rimnied) The “perfect alibi was bra- eyeglasses inside the mansion|ken when Sven Englund, the where Miss Tate and four oth-|Leopold chauffeur, asserted the ers were brutally slain, red Willys Knight auto which Police said the glases found alithe boys said they were riding, the Tate home “probably fell off|/had not been out of the Leopold during a struggle” and were for|garage the night of the murder. In the ’ Leonold.Locb Bnl. plus 99 years in prison after a ne bie = Leopold-!0eD —C8SC, defense by attorney Clarence thrill-killers had biudgeoned the Darrow. Loeb died in a men’s boy to death with a taped chis- <a fight in arisan ; ," ‘ties p “lroom razor. fight in prison in el, stuffed acid-soaked rags in 1935 his mouth and dumped his body} * ; in a drainage ditch. Leopold today is a free inan, The tell-tale giasses were|married, serving as a medical dropped at the scene when Loebp missionary in Puerto Rico, He A-3 Herald Examiner Los Anreles Date: 10/2. /6¢ Edition: Latest News picked up Leopold's coat, bot-[WwaS pardled in 1958. nonin fom-up, and fost them from the Editor: breast pocket. Title: Authorities had been baffled by the seemingly “perfect crime” of Franks’ murder. All the clues, with the single excep- Character tion of the spectacles found near the body, had been exhausted. by tracing thousan®eOr pres- °r 62-<3/7 § Classification: Submitting Office: LA C) Being Investigated