New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1924, Page 16

16 LOEB AND LEGPOLD ARE CALW IN COURT (Continued from First Page) Jacob Franks, wealthy the slain boy, was the ne Crows then said Mrs. Franks follow. Edwin M Gr the Franks boy, was the first ealled by the state. He told ufying the body of his nephew fa M sham, an uncle of iden Court Center of Interest By The Amsociated Press Chicago, July 23,=The of Chief Justice John R the center of interest in Chicago te day There 1t was that Nathan Leo pold, Jr. and Richard Loeb, seions of two of the city's wealthiest fami- lies, faced the har with the plea for merey upon whieh are based their hoper escaping the hangman's noose But long before they came inta court the big building which houses the trial courts was the Meee for hundreds. Only a fraction of these place in the court room those who had business with the eourts could pass the outer doors of | the building, but scores of curious jammed the sidewalk, The “court fans’” had no today., Police guards at the build ing’s portals, at the elevators and again at the door of Judge Caveriy's eourt room kept them back Many on Sidewalks But still the morbidly curious held their places on the sidewalk, They eould not hope to see the two youths who had startled the country with an atrocious erime and then added to the sensation by pleading gullty. That was preciuded by the fact that the two former students were brought from the county jall through a corridor connecting the jail and court building, thenece by an elevator | to the “bull pen'" where they were | kept until the court was ready to| open. | The outside crowd, therefore, had to be satisfied with watching for other characters of the drama They lsoked for Mr. and M. Jacob | Franks, parents of the 14-year-old | vouth whom Leopold and Loeb slew; for Clarence 8. Darrow, and Renja- min Bachrach, counsel for the d tendants; for Robert E. Crowe, state attorney, and his four assistants. Watch for Father | They looked too for Nathan Leo- pold, Sr, father of the youth whose attainments have earned the title “Master mind eriminal,”” They sought a glimpse of Jacob Loeb, uncle of the other defendant and former presi- dent of Chicago's board of educa- tion. And above all they sought to iden- tify Judge Caverly on whose shoul- | ders had been thrust the burden of | determininfg whether two young men shall die for a horrible crime or ex- plate their sins to society by passing their future behind prison bars, | Quiet in Court Room On the sixth floor of the building, where Judge Caverly holds | court, there was an almost startling | quiet, Those privileged to enter the room passed quickly and quictly be- | youd the outer guards to | court re Caverly " was of could gain and only chance places within a big sunlit room. There was | a subdued hum in the room which | rose to a mumbur and then to an open clatter of tongues as the room filled. A half hour before the time set for opening the trial not half of the seats reserved for spectators were | occupied and only State's Attorney Crowe, of all the chief figures, had | appeared. But there were newspapermen of | every degree in plenty, Telegraph operators, writers, and camera men, | male and female, hurried into their | reserved places. A pair of carpen- | ters shattered the atmosphere as they installed a shelf for an additional | electric fan. A Week of Alibi. Mr. Crowe then described the “one| weck alibi” which the murderers con- cocted, It included a fake trip to| study a epecies of gull and a “joy ride™ with whiskey, gin and “pick-| up" girls as accompaniments, | Next was rclated the tracing of the spectacles to Leopold, how he had acknowledged the close ros-‘mhhum’;i of the glasses found at the culvert to| those he had worn., Iinally he had| acknowledged (heir probable owner- ship and tried to explain their “loss,” “He purposely tripped to demon- strate that the spectacies would fall from his pocket,” said Mr. Crowe. “But the glasses remained in the pocket of the coat. IMnally he was! asked to put the coat on the floor, pick it up by the tails and the glas fell out. How Glasses Were Lost, “The evidence will &how tha ses were lost just that way washed the blood from his hands, asked Dick Loeb to pass him his coat and in the darkness picked it up by the tails: and glasses alipped out.” Mr. Crowe's recital of the gation went into deiails of the treat- ment of the boys, tncluding how par- ents andother memhers of the fami- lies were allowed to talk with them, ®end them (resh clothing and pay for meal “We learned from Chicago Daily News that Leopold had a poriable Underwood typ had been used in paring unive work with four ether students,” Mr. Cron He de tempt to Ma s Europe the vl tion of the Vhe pold Locl the investi- of reportors of the vriter that reity waid erib wid's nership student on Leon then in exhibits the wheeled Inte Which stota ofier “for intorma ourt,” was Atop it were a number of it younz room I nards, the blandetained flooring hile « Killed ot whiel What rematned of helt T ranke o [ B il a few ether it equaliy gruesome o el as all collected ind 10 min denee were case as the other material e i B Attornes Bachrach came inte before the police the r uter honur set for opening The rand that let 1t be known his opening for the Ve were on nd Mr. Crone with h penalts The state's alienist defense mat where they the actions of the defendante Mr. Darron cs Tacob Toeb, ®¢ Fichard, Allan loeh, a bre #nd Nathan Lesnaid, Er, he cor Tude a demand retained by the conld observe With | ther me d (store and await instructions. | save Find seats e erybody said the b e jants were summened at i ompani rwcks and & stir that erk’s first cler Y defer and came craning court repeut the ¢ ment made th warning 1o “fnd seats Judg gal 1 phed yith hanged th uned that prop had ol heen com hoys He n M or shen the s 1o “guilly the bar asked thes i the « SUMIG and ¥ ne f their aotion ne sald 1 in & hike ed 10 the and answered Leopold manner udge's n your an y rephi The hoys list ading intently ar The murder ol 18 ready to pro hearing, but asks a eon Kidnapping nrm state eed with 1" tinuanee on the ease said Mr Ohject Crowe said Mr, f al trial and ne separation of 1 1f this I8 not a trisl ommented Crone Other Charge Stands A wrangle finally brought ar ment to proceed with the murde lietment while keeping the charge “on eall from day 10 My Qrowe then started his opening statement, He dealt upon the iden tity and upbringing of the defendants. “They behaved in accord with stan dards of their al wets apt that they developed a munia for gambling tor high stakes,” said Mr, Crowe “The evidence will show that from this they retrograded to the point where they eould commit a cold blooded murder,” Mr, Crowe said that the erime was planned and schemed for months, He sald they threw a compact bundle of newspapers from & traln to learn where it would land so they might instruct the father of their vietim how to throw ransom money to them Mr, Crowe told of Loeb's registering at the Morrisen hotel under an as sumed name and how the suitcase he left in the roam contained honks from the University of Chicago library 18 sued to Richard Loeh Rented Auto | He then described how the bhof) rented the automobile in which th crime was committed. Leopold ap- | plied for the car under the name “Morten D, Ballard,” the same as that | used by Loeb when he registered at the hotel | They also referred to “Lewis Ma- son,” at a telephone number of a delicatessen store where Loeh,saccord- | ing to Mr, Crowe, waited to receive inquiries and endorse “Ballard's” | credit, They took the car first on \ay 8| and then on May Their plans | complete, again hired the car. | Mr. Crowe said Leopold and l,ouh‘ had discussed the feasibility of kid-| napping different boys, “among them William Deutsch, grandson of the president of Sqars, Roehuck and Com- pany, and the son of a prominent Chicago attorney.” He read a ‘‘model letter” which he #aid was drafted by Leopold and Loeb in their study of means and metheds, ehrack This h should WO ases what is it Is not a re re agree rin other boc 50 |Tt was practically identical with the plaints of which. reached Jacoh Franks | A misedy the day after nis son was killed. COUrt Lugoiion’ up' letter also was read, de- |western interests, signed to instruct the recipient of how | {to throw ransom money from a train. grain to cotton. “After you pass a large red brick | factory, count five as rapidly as pos- eible and then throw the package east ! as far as you can.” said the letter. Mr. Crowe seid that the e\(vlflncc]\' would show that Leopold and Loeb | decided to murder their vietim first and demand ransom afterwards. He said they got cther from Leo- | pold’s ornithological equifment, a gag, some tape, ropes, a chisel and acid to disfigure their victim. The methods by which Loeb and Leopold tried to destroy all traces of the: ecrime were described. " He sald that the belt buckle, tie clasp and shoes were scparated from the rest of the clothing. The cloth garments were burned in the Tocb home's fur- nace. A blood stained robe was re- served, lest its odor saturate the house, The metal objects were buried, the robe saturated with gasoline and taken to a lonely spot on the lake shore where it was set afire, Tried to Wash Off Blood. “The next day they tried to wash bhlood from the hired car,” sald Mr. Crowe, “Your honor will be shown that car and the partially erased stains.” He told how the ransom letter was mailed and the first telephone mes- e sent to Mrs, Jacob I'ranks, re- assuring her: “Your gon has been kid- happed. He is safe. Don't worry. Deta later.” Mr. Crowe said lLoecb started the second letter to Mr. Franks, that the latter then wag told by phone to enter a taxicab and drive to a certain drug “Rut,” said Mr. Crowe, “Mr, Iranks had just learned of the finding of his boy's hody and he did not go. Head- lines in newspapers informed also these eriminal conspirators of that fact and they abandoned their plan to col- lect the 210,000 ransom.” The police offorts to solve the mys- tery were detailed. | returned within six hours."” | Maine, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 CAR SKIDS INTO RIVER AND WOMAN IS DROWNED Hoant d and Malbignan aband na ) paper reporters he R Franks and added vas golng 1o k key Kin Five Oiher Ocoupants of New York Car Are Resoued by Two Police ™ a ki i plek 0" B0 mathors 3.~One woman York, July was drowned and a man, and ehildh 1 the death blooded atherhood sod of penalty murder . twa other vomen and twe ehildren were rescued by and #0 when an automdbile went the Fast River at the foot of Ceenties Blip shortly after § o'clock last night |About 200 sallors were seated on benches In Jeannette Park, opposite the seene of the aceide when the attorney knowa that ear, whieh was operated by a woman most atrocious erime Who was learning te drive, skidded untry," on wet pavement and disappeared in ' time the water statement A erowd of sallors rap to the bulks head and without walting even to doff their eaps, plunged into the water, Five of the occupants of the car had been thrown out before it saghk bottom up in 30 feet of water Policeman Benjamin O'Connell, who had heard the eries of the passengers aw it was skidding toward the string. piees while he was passing in a po. liee ear. and Polleeman John Keegan both of the Old Blip Station, also umped into the river in full unl. form to ald in the wark of rescue two polieemen seamen inte tany of a i not Nt the ing else, Worst Crime, L the ed in ted that it buy to e 1l this ¢ e o was n 10 Argue make a court that is opening that s attorney ahould have start up and_ hatred in 1 commuity, Mr. Darrow We ot 1 the idence which the state offers, ia incompetent and meant only for an appeal to pas slons and prejudices, This is a hear Ing and we ask that it be confined to proceedura proper to such a atage] Five minutes after the aceident of any eriminal case." five of those who had been in the Unole on Siand car had beel rescued and put on EAwin M, Gresham, unels of Robert | Darges moored to the dock at the Pranks. took the stand and told of f0ot of Coenties 8lip, but Mra Vie. {dentifsing the body of his nephew, He | foria Kowalsky, 54 years old. of 285 was not cross-examined Adams streat, Brooklyn, who. had Jacob Franks, father of the mur.! P®en imprisoned in the rear seat of dered boy. controlled his smotion well, | h® automobile, was carried fo the ua e dencribed the Tast time he had | Pottom and drowned, Harry Pos, 25, seen his son leave home for school, | & #atlor, stopping at the Seamen's Tn. He gulped a bit as he told of recogniz. | *titute, and Edward Barber of the ing in a body at an undertaker's the United States Coast Guard, who were corpse of his son among the rescuers, became exhaust. He identified & pair of brown canvas |70 In"the water and were saved from tennts slippers as worn by the boy, death hy the other seamen and the with tan stockings and a belt buckle, [{™® Pelicemen. A blue necktie, with white stripes. was recognized as “my boy's" as was a school pin. Ha {dentified too the “ransom lefters’” sent by Loeb and Leopold and signed “George John- son."” The letter was read into the record, It called for $10,000 of which $8,000 was fo be in fifty dollar bills and the rest in twenties, “all old bills.” “This is a strictly commercial un- dertaking” sald the letter, “Should you carry out these instructions, we can assure you your son will be safely your honer the sta ol 1o stir \ Anger sald all ok al 10 YEARS FOR FSPIONAGE Moseow, July 23,—Chlef Enginéer Gouliakoff of the Radieyevsky group |of mines in the Ukraine, has been |sentenced to ten years imprisonment after a trial i supreme court on the charge of economlec esplonage, Two {other members of the administrative Istaff of the Mines were sentenced to seven years on the same charge and two others were acquitted. U, S, DELEGATION ARRIVES Bordeaux, France, July 23.—The first delegation sent to France by the | American naval stores convention of |Savannah arrived here today. This is the center of the turpentine resin production which produces about one- 9 Court recessed until 2 p. m COTON PRICES ADVANCED New York, July 25.-—Cotton prices made another big advance at the opening today, reaching new high lev- | third as much as the American els for the movement with October total, selling at 28.10 and December at 27.20 | or 75 to 85 points above the previous | clos. Do Your Feet Suffer? The market was affected by com- For aching Mmbs, weak feet, fallen arches the dry weather in the| southwest and also by heavy purchas- (fiat feet, painful heel, inturning anklee o o s X vallonges, ete., wear flexible feather weight es for the account of Wall street and |16 T s Which wa make from tndivid- which seemed 10 |ya impressions of your feet in rorrected their attention from |position. 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T'he state’'s attorney told how Englund, Leopo shattered the a automobile nsed on the 14 garage told Sven Witeur, ling that supposed to have ride” was in the heen jon the rowe of Dick Loeb's 1k dann “He held beeans mé ¥ ha heing 'told him it was was Leopold f.oeh wonld had said hronghont May 21 14t asked vas said Crowe 1ttornay fas and be the state's around done tening 4 web 1 that n the wh was 3 ¥ cave he e Vv Leapold vas told w cireumetane Taimed; a ro knann and he exe Coagy give ma gacs o 51 H oty W then the abealute sjaculated hetl Acerrs Other 1 and etarted Fach But he was conuvin his 8o being to h actu seed 1 murderer n neck tern Bale's defendants the and songht the att orts to Tn bittar ensunced the ! Morgan, Kingsley & Thompson Inc. 411 Main St. Painters and Decorators °~ Tel. 534 Paints, Oils; Wall Papers, Etc. DISTRIBUTORS FOR DEVOE'S LEAD AND ZINC PAINT. “Paint now, repair later. Don't put it off, put it on." 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