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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, Nov. 8, 1958, to Carl Haverlin of Broadcast Music in New York. Leopold writes on carbon paper from his new adoptive home and working in the laboratory at the "Brethren Service Project", a humanitarian effort, in part: "I spend all day working in the pathology lab and x-ray room of the hospital; most evenings I devote to trying to keep abreast of a small portion of the avalanche of letters which still come to me...My enchantment with Puerto Rico and with its people continues to grow from day to day...I wish the world in general knew more of what truly fine folks they are...Everywhere I have met nothing but kindness...You ask whether you can with propriety come to see me here. Of course!...". Leopold had applied for parole in 1946 and was immediately shot-down despite attempts to rehabilitate his public image. It would be 12 years later that he again applied. Fine.