Chapter 50 Section 25

Thirty-four years later, the sentence loomed large on the cover of Nathan Leop's autobiography, titled Life Plus 99 Years. The first thing the reporters noticed after the trial was that Judge John Gaveli had disappeared from public view.It was only a few weeks later that he and his wife were admitted to the hospital.Mrs Gaveli is said to have been overwhelmed with fright during the Bobby Fanks murder trial, and as for the judge himself, he said in his resignation to the Crown Court after his discharge: "For the past six years, I have presided over the Among the six major cases being tried, three defendants were sentenced to death and two were sentenced to life imprisonment... My health has been greatly affected by this.” According to his request, the relevant parties transferred Judge Gavelli to the Civil courts, and only preside over divorce judgments.Justice John Gavelli died in August 1939 at the age of 78.

Dr. Claren Darrow later defended, free of charge, 21-year-old teacher John Schoop in the now-famous so-called "monkey case" for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee school classroom. arrested.Dr. Claren Darrow died on March 13, 1938 at the age of 81. Attorney General Robert Corot got his wish in the ensuing re-election campaign, and after leaving office in 1928, he returned to his law firm to resume his old practice.He had been elected to the Democratic Party's executive committee in Illinois in 1940.Robert Corot died in January 1958 at the age of 78. In December 1924, Attorney General Robert Corot and Commissioner Morgan Collins jointly announced the distribution of the bounty in this case.The funds provided by the newspapers at the beginning of the case were only used to buy exclusive news, so the police and prosecutors had only $5,000 from the Fanks family and $1,000 later added by Director Collins at their disposal.

Of the $6,000 total bounty, two Chicago Daily News reporters, James Mulroy and Alvin Gerstein, received $1,500 each.They were later awarded that year's "Pulitzer" journalism prize for their contributions to the case, a first for the Chicago Daily News. Tony Mankowski, a Polish immigrant who found Bobby Jr.'s body, received $850, Paul Korff, who found the glasses, received $750, and the remaining three railway signalmen received $300 each. The final $500 was sent to a night watchman named Bernard Hunter. At around 1:30 a.m. on May 22, the day after the incident, Bernard saw a car traveling south on Greenwood Road, slowing to a stop just before 49th Street.A man in the back seat leaned out of the car and threw something.Bernard walked over immediately, groping the ground for a long time with the help of dim street lights, and finally found a bloody chisel in a dry ditch beside the road.

15 meritorious personnel from the police and prosecutors received verbal praise from Shangfeng.Also honored were Frank Blair, the diver who found the Ondev portable typewriter in the creek near Jackson Park, and Jakov Winston, the manager of a branch of Ormond Coy Optics. .Afterwards, the company's president, Omon Keyi, personally wrote to the newspaper to express his dissatisfaction.According to the letter, Jakov Winston spent a full 36 hours and checked all 54,000 receipts to find out the buyer of the glasses, and the employee deserved a higher reward than verbal praise. The day after the sentencing, September 11, 1924, Nathan Leop and Richard Lowe were deported to Joliet State Prison in the far southwestern suburbs of Chicago, where they began their prison career.During the first year in prison, both of them were ill for a year.For a while, it was rumored that Richard was really crazy.After a year, they got used to sleeping on a concrete table, getting used to defecating in buckets, and getting used to having only water and bread for three meals a day in solitary confinement. In 1931, Nathan and Richard jointly opened the prison school to teach other prisoners courses of different topics and levels, and later founded the prison library.

At noon on January 26, 1936, Richard was attacked by fellow inmate Kimmy De in the prison bathhouse.It was lunch time, and Richard and Kimi were the only ones in the bathhouse.Richard was badly wounded and bleeding profusely.The prison authorities summoned 10 doctors as quickly as possible, but failed to save his life after all.Three hours later, Richard Lowe died on the operating table at the age of 30. Richard was cut alive by a razor. There were more than 50 stab wounds on his body. The deepest and longest one ran across his neck under his left ear and almost cut his throat.Nathan later wrote in the book "Life Imprisonment Plus 99 Years": "His whole body, body and limbs, were full of wounds. The largest piece of intact skin on his body was less than six inches." And, in Richard Several hours after De died, his body was still bleeding even after it was moved.

Kimi De said he killed Richard in self-defense because Richard attempted to sexually molest him.However, other prisoners in the same prison reported that Kimi had actually harbored a grudge against Richard for a long time.At that time, the monthly stipend given to the prisoners in the prison was 3 US dollars per person, and the Luo Yi family sent 50 US dollars to their son in prison every month. Richard used the money to buy people's hearts. Some people's jealousy.Kimi is described as wretched and mean-spirited. Although he is often in a hurry to curry favor for a few money, Richard is very reluctant to pay attention to him.Over time, it became a disaster.Due to insufficient evidence, Kimi De was finally acquitted.

After Richard's death, Nathan's life was even more difficult.He learned 12 more languages ​​in prison, took many correspondence courses in medicine, including X-ray technology, which was very fashionable at the time, and wrote his autobiography. In 1953, Nathan Leop's legal application for parole was denied.Four years later, Nathan applied again and wrote to the governor of Illinois at the time.This time, the parole board voted in favor of his request. Attorney General Robert Corow is said to have changed his tough attitude towards Nathan Leop before his death, and was going to write to the Parole Board to petition for Nathan, but he was unable to do so due to health reasons.

On March 13, 1958, on a calm and cold spring morning, about forty or fifty people gathered on an unnamed bridge in Jackson Park. On this day 20 years ago, Dr. Kraren Darrow passed away.It was from this bridge that his ashes were later sprinkled into the lake below.The lake passes through a small river and joins Lake Michigan not far away.Claren Darrow's biographer, Arthur Webb, threw a wreath into the lake on behalf of the crowd.The lake was so calm that day, and the wreath stayed in place for a long time before going away very slowly and reluctantly. At almost the same moment, in Joliet, about 35 miles southwest of Jackson Park, 52-year-old Nathan Leop stepped out of the gate of the state prison. Since May 29, 1924, prosecutor Robert Coro He was set free for the first time after two of the chief detectives "invited" him to the La Salle Hotel.Nathan was wearing a blue suit and tweed coat made by tailors in the prison that day, with a total of $639 in his pocket.According to the cash receipt signed by him, there is US$1 for bus transportation and US$25 for board and lodging for the first week after he was released from prison, and US$613 was paid by Nathan himself. Savings in prison.

An article in Time Magazine a few days later calculated that thirty-three hours had elapsed between the time the vile chisel was driven into Bobby Fanks' head and Nathan Leop's departure from the prison walls. There are 275 days and 18 hours in a year. Nathan spoke briefly at the prison gate to the dozens of reporters waiting there. In order to avoid the nuisance of the media, Nathan flew to Puerto Rico under the arrangement of his family on the second day after he was released from prison, and has never returned to the United States since then.He first worked in the X-ray room of a hospital for two years, and at the same time studied at the University of Puerto Rico and obtained a master's degree, and then went to the school to teach and conduct medical research, and also published a book "Puerto Rico Birds". In 1961, Nathan married the widow of a local doctor, Ms. Trudy de Quelda, a former employee of the Baltimore Civil Affairs Department. Ten years later, on August 30, 1971, Nathan Leopard died of a heart attack at the age of 67.