The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-17
YOUTHS PLOTTED TOKNLFATHERS
 SAYS ATTORNEY
LeOpOld-LOeb Plans For Further Experiments
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| A4A] Az1tN1IAA HN A1E= 44 At8A-AAA4@AA@A v CHICAGO. July 16--Had Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Jr-, escaped suspicion in the murder of 13-yeaT-Old Robert Franks, the two young intel lectuals would have sought further thrills with the Kidnapping and slaying of their own mulfi-milIiOAire fathers and Of Thomas Loeb. 1O-year-Oad broth CT of Richard, according t0 Clarence S- Darrow, chief defense counsel of Loeb and Leopold
 Disclosure of the almost unbelievable extremes to which the two confessed killers are said to have intended to 20 in their search for d real thrill is claimed to have had confirmation from attaches of the states attorneys office The authorities, according to men intimately associated with the prosecution, have been in possession of this information since the two boys after an all night questioning in the office of the states attorney confessed one of the most astonishing crimes in the history of American JuriSprudence-
 With the same calm deliberatiOn that attended their preparations for the ab- dueti0n and murder of the Franks boy, Leopold and Loeb, according to Oar row, planned to carry out one of their horrible experiments in human emotions on Tommy Loeb, from one to two months after the Franks murder Then, Darrow says, they planned to abduet and slay Albert H. Loeb father of Richard, who has been an invalid and confined to his home for some time and later they planned to kill Leopold s father.
 One Of Four
 According to information supplied by the man who will defend LeOb and Leo pold in their trial for murder, the charge upon which they will be tired represents but the first of four mur- ders which were planned simultaneous ly to be perpetrated in a regular sequ- ence. It was on the day that the two 19-year-Old SlayerS lUred Robert Franks into their automobile and killed him and hid nrs body in a lonely swamp that they completed their wholesale murder plot, hideOus and U1- natural in its details and startling nm its scope.
 The elder Loeb, i'll and helpless, was to have been removed from home with the aid of his own son on a pretext- according to DarrOW- He was 10 have been led to believe that he was being taken to a place for rest and recOvery- Then, according to the plan- he was to be killed with ether or chlOpOfOrm- This murder was To take place about four months after the Franks killing
 Leopold, Sr-, a strong and active man, was reserved for the last of the contemplated murders because hls case presented the most difficult problem for these human laboratory saVantS to solve. Two methods of sub5ecting the elder Leopold to the tests which so interested his son and Loeb that they committed a murder and planned others were discussed by the youths. their counsel said
 The Plans
 One plan involved administering to Leopold an Opiate in a cup of tea or coffee in his home, then carrying hmm 10 a rented automobile later at night. driving to some secluded spot and after | the killing. hiding the body The other was to invite Leopold on an automobile ride, to render him senseleSs with a blow, over the head, just as the Franks | boy was knocked unconscious and later to dispose of the body
 In all these four cases according to Darrow 1t was planned to make rela- tives of those who disappeared believe they had been kidnapped and rO present ransom demands. The collection of the ransom not only was a part of the plan to test emotional reactions under um- usual circumstances but also was de i signed to create a fund with which the two youths could 90 to Europe as we'll