Chapter 32 Section 7

Jakov Winston, the manager of the branch of Ormon Coy Company on North Wabashi Street, checked the company's 54,000 shipment records one by one, and found that only three pairs of glasses used Babonau optics. Frame hinges from the company.The first mate was sold to a lawyer.As a result of the police investigation, the man was on a business trip in Europe and had been out of Chicago for more than four weeks.In 1924, there were no air routes between Europe and the Americas, and all travel was by sea.The second buyer was an elderly woman in her fifties.The name on the third list is this Nathan Leop, date: November 1923, price: $11.50.According to Amir Duschi, the ophthalmologist who performed the optometry for Nathan Leop, Nathan’s main complaint at the time was migraines caused by visual fatigue. Dr. Duscis then provided him with this pair of glasses for reading.

Attorney General Robert Corow was unaware that Captain Thomas Wolfie had spoken to Nathan Leop on Sunday.When the two detectives arrived at Riope's house at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nathan was fully dressed and ready to go out. He was supposed to take the University of Chicago High School students out for a field bird-watching class at 3:00 p.m.The police detectives said that the class might have to be postponed for a while, and they still asked Nathan to call the school immediately to ask for leave in a very polite and non-negotiable manner.It was obvious that Nathan was very unhappy, but he did it anyway.

The detectives asked Nathan if he wore glasses, and Nathan said he used to, but hadn't in a long time. "Is it lost?" asked the detectives. "no." "Are those glasses on you?" "No, but I must be somewhere in the house." The detectives stopped asking questions. Considering Nathan Leop's family background—any little thing about the Leop family will be fired into social news, not to mention the fact that the police are investigating a serious case for members of his family——Colo The attorney general decided to relocate the conversation to the La Salle Hotel to avoid the ubiquitous reporters.

Chief Inspector Koro pulls out the pair of tortoiseshell glasses found at the scene and asks Nathan if they belong to him. "It looks very like mine," said the lad. "If I hadn't known I had my glasses at home, I might have mistaken them for mine." "Do you have your glasses at home?" "yes." Attorney-General Ke Luo asked some more questions to see if he couldn't figure out why, and finally decided to ask Nathan to find his pair of glasses, so that everyone would have nothing to say. Chief Prosecutor Koro sent three police detectives to follow Nathan back, and it was the 29-year-old Mike, the eldest son of the Leop family, who answered the door.After Mike listened to his brother explain the ins and outs of the matter, the brothers began to look for glasses.Eventually, everyone in the family, including the three police detectives, came to help, but the glasses were still missing.Mike then said, "Isn't that where they found the body, that's where you guys used to go to see the birds? Maybe you accidentally left your glasses there."

Nathan said it's entirely possible. Mike suggested that a lawyer should be contacted, and he mentioned Samuel Itosun.Samuel also lived in Kenwood and knew the Leops well.He watched Nathan grow up. Samuel is at the Fanks house.After Mike contacted him on the phone, he took Nathan and three detectives with him.Nathan said that he had never been to the Fanks family before, and he did not know Bobby in their family. Today was the first time he saw Mr. Fanks. Samuel Ittoson apparently didn't think Nathan Leop had anything to do with the kidnapping-murder, but "this has to be cleared up as soon as possible," he told the Leop brothers, before telling the three detectives, He will intervene in this matter as a lawyer in the future, "Please tell Mr. Corot that if he wants to take any action, please notify me in advance."

Mike accompanied the police detectives and his brother back to the Lazar Hotel.The investigators continued to question Nathan, while Mike waited in the lounge. Now, Nathan has not denied that it was his glasses that the railway signalman Paul Kolff picked up by the culvert.He repeated what he had said on Sunday to Captain Thomas Wolfe, who had been near Wolf Lake three days before the kidnapping and murder, only in greater detail. Why do you keep your glasses with you when you haven't worn them for months, the detectives ask?Nathan said, I'm just lazy, I just put my glasses in my pocket and let them go, and I never think about taking them out and putting them away.If the suit were to be sent for dry cleaning, I might remember to take it out.But clothes like this kind of rough wear in the wild are sometimes rarely washed once a year or so.

The detectives asked: "Do you remember how you lost your glasses?" Nathan said that the glasses may have fallen out of his breast pocket when he stumbled. "When did you trip?" the detectives demanded. "Saturday or Sunday?" "Generally speaking, my memory is pretty good," Nathan replied, "but I really can't remember whether it was Saturday or Sunday where they picked up the glasses, but it should be Saturday. You still Remember what I just said? We saw three Ferrar birds the other day and I wanted to take one for taxidermy so I put on rubber boots. The boots were big and heavy and didn't fit well so I fell over It's more likely."

The detectives handed Nathan the glasses, told him to put them in his breast pocket, and demonstrated how he fell and how the glasses fell out.Nathan pounced forward and put his hands on the ground, but the glasses did not fall out.I tried several other positions, but I still couldn't fall out. The detectives asked Nathan to take off his coat, put it on the ground, and then picked it up.This time, the glasses fell on the rug. But what can all this explain?It is entirely possible that Nathan Leop lost his glasses during a field trip that had nothing to do with the kidnap-murder.That is to say, the results of the investigators' exhaustive investigation only negated the only piece of on-site evidence in their hands.

Perhaps because of reluctance, several police detectives did not let Nathan go, but started a further investigation, asking about his whereabouts on the day of the incident, that is, Wednesday, May 21, from afternoon to night.