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NATHAN LEOPOLD

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NATHAN LEOPOLD
(1904 - 1971) American criminal who, with Richard Loeb, was convicted in the thrill-killing of a 14 year old. Saved from the chair by Clarence Darrow's brilliant defense. T.L.S. 1p. 4to., Castaner, Puerto Rico, Mar. 8, 1958, to Carl Haverlin of Broadcast Music in New York. Writing just two weeks after his release on parole and from his new adoptive home, Leopold relates: "...So very much has happened to me in the sixteen days since I left Statevill [prison] that it seems like three or four years...My 24 hours in Chicago were hectic. The newspaper reporters drove us to ground first at Ralph's house....Then they followed us to a friend's apartment in Chicago, where I spent the night. They camped out in the very corridors of the building...Puerto Rico might well be spelled PARADISE. The countryside is unbelievably beautiful....Here at the Project [The Church of the Brethren] we have as dedicated a group of men and women as could be found anywhere...They have welcomed me with open arms...My work in the laboratory is absorbing, if arduous...am having to start over from the beginning...". Leopold had applied for parole in 1946 and was immediately shot-down despite attempts to rehabilitate his public image. On letterhead of the Brethren Service Project, fine.