Chapter 31 Section 6

Another example is that someone dropped a note near the culvert, saying: "Dear policemen: find me quickly, I am in danger, hurry up!" The signature below is "Bobby Fanks". On the day of the funeral, Mrs. Fankers, Mrs. Flora, received a bouquet of tabby lilies, with the words "From Mr. Johnson" written on the card inserted in the flowers.The police later tracked down a flower shop in the south of the city. The owner described the tall male customer as being in his 30s and wearing tortoiseshell glasses. Commissioner Morgan Collins also received a letter: I am the one who kidnapped and killed Bobby Fanks.By the time you read this letter, I may already be dead.I decided to kill myself.I am very sorry that I ever did such a wicked thing.

a sinner Afterwards, the police checked all the suicide victims at that time, but found no one related to the kidnapping and murder. Investigators focused their investigation on Harvard faculty and staff.Soon, three teachers were arrested, including Wednesday night, together with Jacob Finks and Samuel Ittoson, they climbed over the wall and entered the school to find Bobby's physical education teacher Thomas Sigman.Because Bobby's face was splashed with chemical reagents, the school's chemistry teacher was also listed as one of the suspects in the case. According to the analysis of the police, the perpetrator should be familiar with the Wolf Lake area where the body was found, so they sent a special person to visit the manager of the Igors Forest on the north bank of the lake to find out what kind of people usually visit this place.Among the list provided by the administrators was a young ornithologist from the University of Chicago, Nathan, the youngest son of the Leops, who lived just three blocks north of the Fanks home.

The Leop family is a prominent family in the area.Nathan's father, Nathan Sr., used to run the shipping industry in the Great Lakes area, and also held a large stake in the mining industry in New Mexico and the copper smelting industry in Michigan.Later, because he lost in a commercial lawsuit, he dumped his family property and sold the already large-scale Morris Paper Mill at that time.One of Nathan's uncles was president of the Illinois Bankers Association, and another uncle was a founder of the Jewish United Way.There were also two famous uncles in the Leop family, one of whom was famous in the financial world for successfully starting his own bank at the age of 23, and the other was the heir to the Inland Steel Company.

Nathan Leop is the youngest of three sons in the family and is now 19 years old.Because Mrs. Leop, Florence, was weak and sickly, she was bedridden during her pregnancy. Nathan was born with poor health, but he was rarely smart.According to his baby diary records, Nathan began to speak at four months, and he was also a language genius when he grew up. He had already mastered 15 foreign languages ​​in his teens, including some very rare languages, such as ancient Greek and Latin. , Hawaiian, Sanskrit, and more.In addition to English, he can speak fluently and freely in at least 5 different languages.Nathan also went to Harvard school when he was a child, skipped two grades, and entered the University of Chicago at the age of 15.Later, he transferred to the University of Michigan in Annenberg for a year, and then returned to the University of Chicago.It only took Nathan three years to complete all the university courses. He is now a graduate student at the University of Chicago Law School, and he plans to go to Harvard Law School in the east to continue his studies after the fall semester begins.

Nathan's two brothers are about 10 years older than him.Nathan has been withdrawn since he was a child, and because of many illnesses he seldom exercised, so he became interested in insects and birds.Over the years, various bird specimens collected and produced occupy a large room on the third floor of Leop's house. He himself has become a veritable young ornithologist because of his research on this subject. And weekends to participate in various activities of ornithologists, one of which is to lead middle school students in natural science classes to observe birds in the wild. On Sunday, May 25, at 11 a.m., Nathan was still awake when two officers arrived at the Riope home.After being notified by the employer, Nathan walked into the living room wearing a nightgown. "That's right. I often go to the Wolf Lake area to hunt birds, because I have a special permit from the city government." Nathan said, "But I can't go to the police station with you now. I made an appointment with my girlfriend at 12 o'clock. have lunch."

The police officers promised that the time would not be very long and they would bring him back before noon. In the police office, Captain Thomas Wolfe politely asked Nathan Leop if he wore glasses. Nathan said he occasionally did, and Captain Wolfie said no more.Asked him if he knew anyone else who frequented Wolf Lake, especially those who wore glasses.Nathan named a few names, then penned the following testimony: In the past six years, I have often been to the area of ​​108th Street and F Road (that is, near Wolf Lake-the author's note), and I have been there five or six times this year. Sunday. On May 17th, George Lewis and I drove through the woods, then south along the eastern shore of Wolf Lake to 126th Street and back again.We arrived around 2:30 and left around 5.

Sunday, May 18th, after seeing the birds, Sydney Stein, George Lewis and I drove down the road through the woods to the Mays Shed between Wolf Lake and Hyde Lake, it was 6:30 or 6:45.Then walk east to the igloo, turn to the railway, and return the same way at 7:20 or 7:30. The purpose of all these trips is to observe birds. Four days later, on Thursday, May 29, two more detectives went to the Leop house and asked to see Nathan.This time, it was someone sent by Cook District Attorney Robert Coro. When assigning tasks to various troops and horses, Robert Corot put his other assistant attorney general, Joseph Savage, in charge of finding the source of the tortoiseshell glasses.Joseph visited various businesses with his glasses, and Ormon Coy Optical Company easily recognized the glasses as their product, because there was a small inconspicuous diamond-shaped logo on the corner of the lens.

The prescription or prescription for this pair of glasses was very common, and tortoiseshell frames were also common at the time.Its only unique feature is that the hinge, or hinge, that connects the frame to the frame is a product of Babonau Optics in Brooklyn, New York, and Omon Koi is Babonau's sole agent in the Chicago area .