New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1924, Page 3

TWO INDICTMENTS RETURNED TODAY AGAINST SLAYERS (Continued from First Page) to later plans of the state’s attorney’s office. iZach of the indictments was indorsed by the 70 witnesses Assistant State's Attorney Q. 1. Chott, went betore Chief Justice C; v after the indictments were re turned and moved the dismissal of the writ of haheas corpus which defense counsel had asked, The defense counsel offered no op- Judge Caverly ordered at the sheriff immediately take and keep the custody of the the court's capias. A nurse who once had Loeb, Mrs. Theodore Mer called at the jail to see th were seps position and vouth's on attended ledar, today hoys, who ated only from their eall ers by a steel sereen. While standing Mendedar fainted, Eat And Sleep Well Both boys at the screen Mrs slept well last night and ate heartily at breakfast Their ap at all times Loeb breakfasted ail fare, but Leopold sent out for his hreakfast. At lunch con their were hrought in from have been nee the murder. on the regular meals the outside Last night the boys dined on fried chieken and ot} and cigareties g the meals, A number of anonymous and sar letters have prisoners. One | a bird's eye view ntiary, Ope ‘Don't castic postal cards and been received hy the postal picture bore of Joliet penite Sorres. pondent wrote worry, you're in a country where justice is meas- ured by wealth.” Gonfession Cold Blooded Chicago, June The confession of Nathan F, Leopold, Jr., made pub- lic last night by Itobert E. Crowe, state’'s attorney after the grand jury indicted Leopold and Richard Loeb, both millionaires’ sons and brilliant university graduate students on 26 counts charging the kidnapping for ransom and murder of Robert Franks May 21, was revealed as an unemo- tional celdly matter of fact docu- ment. Picked On Robert xt problem was to get the vietim and we were undecided until that day,” said the confession after it related the plans for capturing slay- ing and disposing of a child in prep- aration for demanding $10,000 ran- some, “Then we decided to take the most likely looking subject that came our way. It just happened to be Robert Franks, Richard was acquainted with him and called him over and intro- duced him to me and then asked Robert to go for a ride, Killed in Back Seat “Richard said ‘Come on in' ‘I want to ask you abgut a tennis rac- quet’ I got in th€ car them and stepped on the gas and we proceded. As we turned the corner Richard put one hand over his mouth and with hia right hand beat him on the head, He did not succumb as readily as we ex- pected and Richard pulled him to the hack seat and forced a club or gag into his mouth. 1 guess he was in- stantly suffocated.” Pushed Body With Foot Tn coldly formal language the con- fession related the disposal of the body after it had been stripped, ILeo pold stating that at first hae feared there wonld be difficult yin forcing it into a culvert where it was found. When the hody stuck in the eulvert Leopold said he forced it further by “The n NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1924. | pushing with his foot. With the victim’s body in their au- | se: tomobile covered with a robe the slayers stopped at a restaurant and ate sandwiches hefore carrying out | their plans for the burial and first demand of ransom. Planned ¥or Ransom |out for the eollection of the mont which was to be placed in a safe de- | iymslt vault and kept for a year |m.1 | fore being spent. The process of | getting the money was decided on | first then a means of notifying the father of the victim was arranged and finally the disposal of the hody | was planned, the confession said. The ¥atal Slip-Up Estreme care had been taken that there migh® be no slip in putting the plan into effect, hut neither of the | vouths had bargained on the discov- ery of the body the day after it had been hidden, the finding near the body of a pair of glasses later identi- fied as Leopold's and the father of | the alain boy forgetting in his excite- ment part of the directions for de- livering the money. Intended Murder | Leopold said that through field glasses he and Loeb watched ehil- dren at play on the afternoon of the kidnapping to determine who should be their victim. Twn were under contemplation when the Franks boy happened along. 'The intention from the first Kad been to kill the vietim, aid the confession. | The true bills were voted by the grand jury exactly two weeks from the day the body of Robert Franks was found. In view of pending writs | of habeas corpus for the release of the hoys, the true bills were made re- turnable today. Formal arrest of the boys, held as suspects up to this time, |is expected as they come into court today for the hearing on the habeas i | apptication 71 Witnesses Heard ] | every bit of evidence the ed and every witness believed to |she recognized graphs of the youths. come up during the’August term of the superior court. | Boys Again Friends between the erstwhile the body. have information being taken before State’s Attorney Crowe declared the case would be rushed to trial at | | the earliest possible moment the law | allows and no agreements on contihu- Doubt Attack On Woman Doubt was expressed by state's at- torneys as to the story of Mrs. Louise | Hohly, 45, mother of three children, state pos. | Franks was kidnapped. newspaper The enmity hoon companions which began when Elaborate details had been worked | ances would bhe made. they confessed, was reported teemin- ated in the county pold and Loeb drew together yester- day morning the prisoners’ exercising { period and conversed with who yesterday filed suit for $100,000 | 8000 feeling. damages against Leopold and Loeb charging them with having kidnapped and attacked her two weeks before Leopold Hits Guard Leopold was said to have struck a | p, jail guard late yesterday when he was photo- | fice for identific The case will under a fictitious him give 0~ Leo- 1, cainst himseif jail, where A A sides. obvious i, have lashed out Epson Downs, Eng She claimed | summoned to the state’s attorney's of- | lace, tion by clerks in connection with their testi- money that he had opened an account name in establish eredit for hiring the murder car. 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