Chapter 34 Section 9

In Hauer's view, this was exactly what his two friends were doing.Nathan Leop is more honest and says what he has, while Richard Lowe likes to be a little gentleman and doesn't bother to talk about details.But most crucially, Howle knows Nathan and Richard, and he believes his friends are innocent. Hall immediately drove downtown.By this time, Nathan Leop had been taken to the district attorney general's office.The detectives allow Hall to meet with Nathan.Howle told his friend that Richard couldn't remember what happened on Wednesday night.Nathan said, just tell him, I have recruited the two girls, and he will understand.

After the police searched Luo Yi's house, they took Richard to the police headquarters.It took Hall a lot of effort to meet Richard through his father's contacts in the police station.Sure enough, Richard understood what Nathan meant.Now, the confessions of the two people are basically the same. Meanwhile, two other reporters, James Mulroy and Alvin Gerstein of the Chicago Daily News, were conducting their own investigations. They found out that Nathan Leop attended a spontaneous seminar of law school graduate students, and the weekly gatherings were basically in Leop's study in Nathan's study.Because Nathan was a proficient typewriter and one of the few people who had his own typewriter, he typed up the weekly bulletin on the spot or afterwards and distributed it to everyone.

At 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Alvin approached one of the seminar's members, Arnold Marmen.Yes, Arnold said, every time we met, Nathan sat at his desk and took notes on a Hammond typewriter.Arno readily found several briefings, and Alvin flipped through them casually, and found that the fonts on a few pages were different from others.Arnold said that it was at the beginning of February. Because some reference materials needed to be consulted, the venue of the meeting was temporarily changed to the first floor of the school library.Arnold remembered Nathan sitting at a card table by the window, using a portable typewriter.

Alvin could hardly suppress his excitement, and immediately reported this clue to the Attorney General's Office through the newspaper.Engineer H.P. Shatton of the Royal Typewriter Company identified that the briefing at the seminar in early February and the ransom demand letter indeed came from the same typewriter.For example, the upper part of the letter t of the two is heavier, the lower part is lighter, the letter m is slightly slanted, and the letter i is slightly distorted.Engineer Shatton explained that every key on a typewriter has a "fingerprint" just like a human finger.

But Nathan Leop denied it was his typewriter, arguing that another seminar member must have taken it to the library.According to inquiries from other partygoers, it was unclear whose portable typewriter it was.Attorney General Robert Coro searched Leop's home again, but the detectives came back without success. It was 9 o'clock on Friday night, and the investigators were all downcast.With years of experience in dealing with criminals, they instinctively felt that there must be something wrong with the two children, but almost all the evidence was untenable.The glasses were indeed Nathan Leop's, but it's entirely possible that his trip to Wolf Lake had nothing to do with the case.It was certain that Nathan had used the same typewriter as the kidnapper, but there was no trace of that machine.

Robert Corot called his whole team into his office: "We've got to get these two kids home," he said, "their families are very wealthy and can afford the best lawyers. So if we can't get If you can produce decent evidence, you can only release them.” The chief prosecutor set the time limit for detaining Nathan Leop and Richard Lowe at 12:00 p.m. Whether the child is in our hands, the investigation can still continue." At that moment, Assistant Attorney General Bertie Clauson said, "I want to talk to the Leops' driver." "Why?" asked Robert Corot.

"I don't know, I just want to talk to him." Botti sent a constable to Leop's house for the driver, Swan Englund, and then got so absorbed in other work that he forgot about it.It wasn't until it was nearly midnight, when the time limit for detaining the suspect was approaching, that I remembered this again."Mr Englund has been sitting outside waiting for two hours," one officer said. "why did not you tell me?" The Assistant Attorney General cut to the chase and asked Swan Englund if he remembered what had happened on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 21, a week earlier, and the driver of the Leops said he remembered it well.When Nathan drove home after lunch that day, he parked his red Willie Knights directly in the garage.Nathan told Shi Wan that the brakes were uncomfortable to step on, and every time the brakes creaked, he asked Shi Wan to clean up.

"So they didn't drive out again until you fixed the brakes, did they?" asked Bertie Clauson. "Oh no," said the driver. "I've been working all afternoon. They're driving another car." The Assistant Attorney General's eyes widened immediately.Nathan and Richard said that they picked up the two girls in Nathan's Willy Cavalier that day, but the driver in front of him said that the car was parked in his garage at all! "Are you sure you remember the date correctly?" "It can't be wrong. My wife took the child to the doctor that day because he had a cold."

"Can you prove that it was indeed the 21st?" "I think we have the doctor's prescription." Mrs Englund confirmed by phone that the date on the prescription was May 21. "Damn it! Finally caught them!" Attorney General Ke Luo cursed fiercely after listening to Bertie Clauson's report. The investigators who were interrogating Nathan and Richard separately were called out.A few minutes later, when they appeared in front of the two suspects again, their expressions and tone changed drastically. The police said to Richard Lowe, stop playing tricks on us, if you still have a little self-knowledge, hurry up and recruit.Because we already know that you didn't go to some Lincoln Park to watch birds, and you didn't take the two girls to some Jackson Park.In fact, there were no two girls at all, just one little boy, Bobby Fanks.The alibi you provided for yourselves were all lies, because Nathan's red Willie Knight had been parked in their family's garage that afternoon.