Today -100: June 5, 1924: Of super-intellects, enlistment mania, racial insults, and bitter personal feeling

The grand jury hears evidence against the “19-year-old graduates of super-intellect,” Leopold n’ Loeb, including the testimony of an employee of the company that rented them the murder car; the optician who traced the rare model of spectacles Leopold left by the body; the stationer who sold him the paper and envelope he used for the ransom note...

The American Psychiatric Association convention in Atlantic City has a ball discussing the Leopold n’ Loeb case. They blame the parents.

There’s a guy who has enlisted in the army 12 times in 6 states in the last 6 months under different names. He is said to have “enlistment mania.”

Four more Japanese commit ritual suicide to protest the US immigration law, according to provincial newspapers, although only one of the suicides is for-suresies a protest, the man leaving a letter protesting the “racial insult.”

Disgraced former attorney general Harry Daugherty’s lawyer tells the Senate Committee that Dirty Harry will refuse to testify and his lawyers will stop showing up too. DH complains that they didn’t call any of the witnesses he suggested and conducted their inquiry “with such bitter personal feeling toward me”.

The RNC will probably recommend that women be allowed to vote at next week’s national convention.

Austrian Chancellor Ignaz Seipel offers his resignation on account of the long recovery time expected after that assassination attempt, but it is rejected.

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