Leopold Letters Reveal Death Wish in Gallows Case
Neal Leopold’s final notes to a friend are published as doctors and alienists debate his fate. The letters express a desire to pierce the veil of death and include poems and a plan to communicate with the afterlife, as the case before the court weighs execution or clemency.
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Nathan Leopold Jr
Dickie Loeb
Clarence Darrow
Leopold
Wat
Superman
Loeb
Leonard
William 4. White
White
Nathan F. Leopold Jn
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Leopold and Loeb case details unfold in court
Dr. Hubert testifies Leopold showed no emotion and desired a perfect crime, while Loeb sought to influence him. The defense calls more experts as the trial proceeds, with two college party friends subpoenaed to testify next week about Leopold's associations.
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Lelse
Lodi
Hubert
Loeb
Box
Attorner Bachrach
Richard Loeb
Boyether
Crowe
Virginia Brannaler
Marie Dalton
Tatianapolis
Dickie” Loch
Chicago
J. JK. Caverly
Leopold 2Nd Loeb
Democratic central committee votes not to call convention for Walton
Oklahoma City August meeting splits over Walton nomination for U S senator as party aims to avoid a convention to ratify the ticket. Heated debate, calls for Walton to square himself, and a move to proceed on national platform only to prevent a party split. Local factions argued over Ku Klux Klan issues and alignment with the national convention.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Democratic Central Committee
Lato
J. C
Iron Jack” Walton
United States
Walton
R. L. Davidson
Kirby Fitzpatrick
Carter County
Walutm
Fitzpatrick
Ku Klux Klan
Shenandoah Sails Homeward To Lakehurst After Storm
The naval airship Shenandoah cast loose from the Patoka near Newport and moved southward toward Lakehurst New Jersey. Lightning and showers accompanied the storm but proved non fatal. Lakehurst agreed to tow and care for the airship as it avoids night landings and continues its flight.
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Newport
R. L
Shenandoah
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
N. Z
Naval Training Station
N. J
Hing
Val Air Service
Shenandoah’s
Lakehust
Shenandosh
Jaye
Bev
Dallas Boys Crash Into New Park Fence
Juvenile inmates crowded the city jail after fourteen youths were arrested for breaking through the new fence at the fair park baseball field. Most were returned to custody after an hour of detention as adults urged parents to intervene.
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Dallas
Fair | Park
Open letter on experience and guidance from a thoughtful teen
A youthful writer addresses a respected elder with humility about guidance and life experience. He notes his own youth and inexperience but expresses readiness to learn from varied experiences, promising to keep up with daily reading and to seek sensible instruction.
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Usee
Defeated Bond Issue Foils Los Angeles Heights School Plan
A proposed 100000 bond for a new school and land purchase in Los Angeles Heights Independent School District failed 244 to 136 after three polling places reported. Trustees named include J C Arnold and B M Smith with residents seeking a court restraining action over levies and district validity contested on grounds the area mirrors Dominion School District No 18 and is not square as required.
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Los Angeles Heights Independent
Los Angeles Heights
Georgia Avenue
Bandera Road
Kenwood
Seventy-third District
J. C. Arnold
B. M. Smith
A. &. Stephens
Noah Allen
W. J. Gockner
Floyd Q. Jackson
Dominion “School District No
Houston Girl Loses 50 in Dallas Marriage Plot
A Houston woman told Dallas police she was duped by a man she met while driving through town. He claimed he would marry her in Houston but disappeared with 50 dollars after luring her to his hotel. Officers found he has a wife and is jailed pending investigation.
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Dallas
Tex
Houston
Dalla
Shy
Polices
Hezens on Feet Advertisement Notice Misread
Ambiguous ad fragment notes refunds and remedies for purchase issues. Mentions authorized kits and a claim of money refunds if something fails. No clear product names or dates.
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Hezens
Mexican official to study Texas prisons at length
C Sologaistou of the Mexican daily La Prensa is commissioned to conduct an exhaustive survey of Texas prisons and prison farms. He will seek permission to visit the state penitentiary in Huntsville and the fourteen farm prisons to photograph and document prison work.
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Texas
C. Sologaistou
la Prensa
Enrique Colung
Sologaintoa
Huntsville
Pop bottle thrower arrested at Dallas game
The first arrest under Dallas Police Commissioner Turley’s anti pop bottle throwing order occurred during the Dallas Fort Worth double header. A man in the middle grandstand hurled a bottle into the crowd and faces malicious mischief charges under city ordinance now in effect with a 25 dollar fine for bottle throwing at baseball games.
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Dallas
Turley
Dallas-Fort Worth
Mill Worker Killed in Crash at Local Flour Mill
A mill worker, William Robertson aged 31, died after being caught between two box cars at a Sherman Texas flour mill yard. A switch engine moved a car onto an side track, causing a collision with a car being unloaded, sending Robertson to a local hospital where he died.
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Willian Robertson
Robertson
Sherman
Texas
Texas man drowns in two feet of water
Palestine Texas August 1 Edward Bice believed to have fallen into Foster Creek during an epileptic fit while fishing and drowned in two feet of water near here today.
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Texas
Palestine
Tex
Edward Bice
Foster Creek
Bice
Mystery Bolshevist Reveals Identity in Sweden
The mystery Bolshevist known as Ex BR has identified himself as Robert Stewart, a British communist and member of the Soviet executive council. He appeared at a radical mass meeting to announce his role, criticizing Russian leadership and questioning Danish pacifist plans to disband the army.
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George R. Witte
Stockholm
Sweden
Ex BR
Robert Stewart
Counci
Moscow
Stewart
Weather snippets from multiple cities incomplete
Fragmented weather notes list temperatures for Ba Chicas Kansas City New York and more. Details include highs lows winds and cloud cover with several typos and unclear units. The data appears as an OCR scrape rather than a cohesive report.
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Chicas
Kansas City
New York
Lovant
St. Louis
Hhours
A. Nmenant
Washington
Train Hits Auto Near Corinth Leave Two Dead
Two killed and two injured in a collision when a northbound Southern Railway freight struck an automobile near Corinth Kentucky about fifty miles south of Cincinnati. A family of four was affected in the wreck.
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Cincinnati
Fiend
Southern Railway
Corinth
Here
Fire in Patriot, Ind., devastates 18 buildings. five injured
A blaze in Patriot, Indiana, destroyed or heavily damaged eighteen buildings. Five people were injured and total losses were estimated at 100000 dollars. Fire officials investigated the cause as crews battled the flames in Louisville as the report circulated.
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Louisville
Patriot
Ind
Father Slain Over Swearing, Son Confesses
In Hudson Wisconsin a 21 year old Willa Kroger confessed to hitting his father Otto C Kruger with an iron bar and burying the body in an abandoned hog pen. The body was found in a fresh grave under a bog shed on the Kroger farm near Stanton after authorities investigated the elder Kruger’s disappearance at neighbors’ request. The arrest followed a visit by county officers led by Mike Martin, constable at New Richmond.
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Hudson
Wis
Willa Kroger
Otto C. Kruger
Kruger
Stanton
New Richmond
Alder Kruger
Kirk
Mike Martin
Kroger
Harris Jury Probes Roy Wilson Death
Harris county grand jury began a probe into the murder of Roy O. Wilson whose body was found near Harrisburg. Justice of the Peace Campbell Overstreet ruled death at the hands of unknown persons. Elizabeth and Robert Don Cartos were held without bail on murder charges and R H Keith of Pent City was being sought.
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Tex
Barris County
Roy O. Wilson
Harrisburg
Justice of the Peace-Campbell
Elizabeth
Robert Don Cartos
Wilson
R. H. Keith
Pent City
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