Cook County IL Archives Obituaries.....Leiter, Joseph Jr ?
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Raymond C. Thorne, who met death in a Los Angeles suburb when his automobile 
skidded and upset.

Joseph Leiter, Jr., who was killed by an accidental shotgun blast while on a 
duck hunting trip near his father’s hunting lodge at the mouth of the 
Mississippi.  The picture was taken three years ago.

The sons of two old and wealthy Chicago families met tragic deaths yesterday.

Joseph Leiter, Jr., 10 year old son of Joseph Leiter, millionaire resident of 
Chicago and Washington, was killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun 
while duck hunting in Louisiana.

Raymond C. Thorne, son of the late W.C. Thorne, former president of Montgomery 
Ward & Co., was killed in Los Angeles when his automobile turned turtle, 
pinning him beneath it.

“Joseph Leiter, Jr., was killed today while hunting near the mouth of the 
Mississippi river by the unexplained explosion of a cartridge in his gun.  
According to his father, who was entertaining a party of friends at Chateau 
Canard on a hunting trip in the nearby swamps, the boy left the shooting lodge.

“After shooting a duck the lad reloaded his shotgun and laid it on the ground 
while he went after the bird.  When he returned and picked up the gun the 
shell was exploded, killing him instantly, Mr. Leiter, Sr., was not at the 
lodge at the time.”

The slain youth, son of the man who became world famous when he cornered the 
wheat market in the Chicago pit, was a grandson of Levi Z. Leiter of Chicago, 
who founded the Leiter fortune.  He was a nephew of the late Lady Curzon of 
England.  The boy would have inherited an estate of several millions had he 
grown to manhood.

Auto Kills R. C. Thorne

Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 10 [Special] – Raymond C. Thorne, a vice-president of 
Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, was killed here this morning when his 
automobile skidded and turned turtle on Wilshire boulevard.

He was hurrying from a downtown club to his palatial residence in Beverly 
Hills when the accident occurred. He lay in the mud, pinned beneath the heavy 
machine, for some time before a passing motorist found him.  He was not 
identified for several hours, until William C. Camp, his step-father, visited 
the undertaking establishment in which the body lay.

Went West to Open Home

Last spring he went to California and built a palatial residence for his wife 
in Beverly Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles.  It had only been recently 
completed and a week ago he again went west to prepare for its opening.

Mrs. William C. Camp, Thorne’s mother, who lives at 3314 Sheridan road, and 
his widow, who was visiting her, are prostrated by the tragedy.  Both are 
under the care of physicians.

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