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CHICAGO DAILY NEWS: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

A gruesome discovery connected to what would later be dubbed the “crime of the century” was made in Chicago 96 years ago this week.

A report in the May 22, 1924, edition of the Chicago Daily News detailed the discovery that morning of 14- year- old murder victim Robert “Bobby” Franks, whose body was found “stuffed into a culvert under the Pennsylvania railroad tracks at 118th Street,” the report said. At the time, officials didn’t even realize they had a murder victim.

But before Franks was found, his family had received a letter from the kidnappers, demanding $ 10,000 for the boy’s safe return.

Franks’ killers — University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb — had picked up the teen the previous afternoon while he walked to his Kenwood home, the report said. The pair had decided they would attempt to commit the perfect crime, reportedly just to prove they could get away with it.

“The police first diagnosed the case as accidental drowning, for the head wounds were not easily seen,” the report explained.

The criminal trial that followed —“the trial of the century” — would go on to captivate the nation, catapult defense attorney Clarence Darrow to fame and inspire the novel “Compulsion” and movies including Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film “Rope.”

Adam Fromm is a songwriter/ musician from Brunswick, Me., who has been making puzzles “as far back as I can remember.” His first published puzzle appeared in Games magazine in 2000. This one grew out of a geographical curiosity he noticed. Fun fact: Adam is a huge fan of Amazon Prime’s “36- Down,” which he was very happy to include in the grid. — W. S.

ACROSS

1 “For more ____ …” 5 Some unwanted mail

9 Terse bit of advice 13 Half of an ice cream brand with a fake Danish name 19 Work up a sweat 20 Rent

21 Like tap water in a restaurant 22 Iris part 23 Wing it [ Africa] 25 Blue

26 Chew out 27 Après- ski drink 28 Complete rip- off [ Asia] 30 Barrel- flavored, as wine 31 Washington, D. C., legalized it in 2014 32 Wealthy king of legend 33 Recess 36 Charge for admission 37 See 101- Down 38 Quaint contraction 41 Record company [ Central America] 45 Two- time third- party presidential candidate

47 “The Walking Dead” channel 48 Beyond great 49 Baking measure 50 Cerebral 51 Take in

53 ____ shoots ( salad ingredient) 54 One of five for a dolphin 55 Supple leather 56 Proboscis, informally 58 What subjects and verbs must do [ Europe] 62 Ancho pepper, before drying 65 Puzzled 66 Sort by urgency of need [ Europe] 70 Misgiving 74 Where meditators look 75 ____ candy 76 Planet where the cry “Shazbot!” is said to have originated 79 Food- chain link 80 Treats prepared on an open fire 81 Part of O. E. D.: Abbr. 82 Organic fertilizer 84 Hold up 85 Male

91- Acrosses 86 T- shirt size [ South America] 90 Not to mention 91 Forest ranger 92 Shapes made by thumbs and index fingers 93 Glossed over 94 Like some toy cars 97 Sportage maker 98 ____ Cochran, Mississippi senator from 1978 to 2018 99 First month of the year without a U. S. federal holiday [ Asia] 102 Dismissed out of hand

106 Want badly 107 Sit at a red light, say 108 Biblical outcast [ South America] 109 Exclamation from a cheek pincher

110 Org. behind the New Horizons project

111 One whose job prospects go up in smoke? 112 Responsibility 113 Biggest U. S. union, familiarly 114 Set of two 115 City north of Des Moines 116 Resident of the Palazzo Ducale

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1 Hankering 2 Manhattan neighborhood west of the East Village 3 Order 4 Cranky codger 5 “Reach for the sky!” 6 Sandwich often served with rémoulade sauce 7 Killer of the Night King on “Game of Thrones” 8 “Throw ____ bone”

9 Key of Debussy’s

“Clair de Lune” 10 Black pie- crust component 11 Lead- in to many a joke on “The Daily Show” 12 Senator who once served as an editor of The Harvard Law Review 13 Hurt

14 Many Omanis 15 Group seen in gathering clouds? 16 Discovery that might cause a rush 17 Wellsian race of the future 18 Gram 24 Objects in one of Jesus’ miracles 28 Singer Lisa 29 Top of the line 31 Fruit with an obovate shape 33 Media for scientists 34 Unit of brightness 35 Raw material for Cadbury 36 Popular Amazon Prime dramedy from Britain 39 Kind of column seen on the Jefferson Memorial 40 “Funny Girl” composer Jule 42 Copy 43 Vaper’s device, informally 44 Nutritional snack from Clif 45 Trig, for calc, e. g. 46 Relaxed 50 Some wetlands 52 Snack with a recommended microwave time of just three seconds 54 Theater impresario Ziegfeld 55 Abbr. in a genealogical tree 57 ____ Strait, separator of Australia and Papua New Guinea 59 What one is in Paris?

60 Kylo ____, “Star Wars” antagonist 61 Candy- heart phrase 63 Raises one’s paddle, say 64 Each verse of “Deck the Halls” has 32 of them 66 Host Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 67 Dishearten 68 Scottish tradition before battle

69 “We Three Kings” subjects 71 Deodorant brand 72 Sierra ____ 73 “Whoops, sorry about that!” 77 Sensationalist newspaper 78 Openings under desks 81 Observance first celebrated in 1970

82 Big to- do 83 Like “Saturday Night Live” 86 Put up with 87 Pull back 88 Mother of 60- Down 89 Item in a toxic internet “challenge” 91 Region around the Beltway, informally 95 Just for laughs 96 Put on a show 97 Work with one’s hands 98 Poppycock 99 Classic computer game set on an abandoned island 100 Michelle of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” 101 With 37- Across, Ingrid Bergman’s role in “Casablanca” 102 Tricky pronoun to use

103 Wine opener? 104 ’ 60s dance craze that evolved from the Chicken

105 Join 108 Helper during taxing times?