The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
YOUTHS CRnlGE ASSTATEPLEADS THAT THEY HANG No Mercy Should Be Shown Frank Slayer,
 Attorney Says FATHER OF VICTIM NEARLY COLLAPSES Both Loeb And Leopold Show Strain Under
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 CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-IIl an ifnpassioned plea that electri- fled the blase and weary courtroom habitues, Assistant States Attorney Joseph F. Savage Wednesday demanded that Justice John R. Caverly send Nathan F. Leopold, Jra and Richard Loeb to the gal lows.
 The two youths who pleaded guilty to n1urdering 14-year-l old Robert Franks cringed un- der the merciless lash of Saw ages oratory, which attained vehemence and intensity rare ly heard in an Illinois court room.
 At one stage of his speech savage turned, pointed his finger at Loeb, who was seated directly behind where he stood, and exclaimed
 No Mercy Asked
 "Show them the same kind of mercy they showed Robert Franks."
 Loeb, who had experienced an un- comfortable day, gave a nervous start, looked appealingly around, as if seek ing to escape from the terrific deunuci- ation to which he was forced to listen, and finally sat huddled in his chair, his eyes on the floor Leopold flushed
 deep red, and as Savage continued he repeatedly tvitched about m his chair.
 The prosecutor by this time was hold ing Justice Cavefly; the defense coun sci and most of those in tle court room spelIbound. Rapidly he began to tell the entire story of the crime. When he reached one of his oratorical flights, the point VII st t .le told how Loeb and 9ppld Killed llkfse cftrq ee F kad 1nfea sfnE Hi41 on a pretense that they wisbsl to take I him for ride Jacob Franks, half collapsed in his seat
 FraHlss Father Leaves
 With ashen eountenance, his eyes seemingly almost bulging from their eockets. Frafikss father of the mur- lered boy, staggered from his chair and tottered out of the court room. 1t had been too much for him, this real- istic portrayal of an accomplished ora for and actor, of how two 19-year-old vouths had murdered his little son. And. it was the first time during the hearinr to determine mitigating cir cumsthnces that Jacob Franks has been noticeably affected by the court pro eeedings
 Savage was the second member of the states attorneys staff to parctict- pate in the closing argument. Assistant States attorney Thomas Marshall, who had commenced his argument Tuesday, finished "Wednesday after he had cited long list of precedents, which, he de- clared, showed that the only fit pun ishment for Loeb and Leopold would De hanging.
 MarshaIIs argument took m unex- pected turn when he read a list of cases where murderers had their sentences conmuted by Governor Small This move on the part of the prosecution gave rise to considerable speculation as to whether the state was attempting to forestall possible action by the. gover- nor, in the event of q death sentence.
 Grove refused to comment on this phase of the states case and added that he expected nothing short of the death penalty"
 In his argument, which discussed the legal phase of the Franks case, Mar shall even went back to the Haymarket riots in 1887, as result of which four anarehists we're hanged.
 '.sThe philosophy of Loeb and Leo pOId does not any more excuse them from punishment for the murder of Rob ert Franks than did the anarchistie philosophy of August Spies, Albert ID. Parsons, Louis Engel and. Adolph Fis- cher 37 years ago. Marshall declared. They were the Anarchists who were ex- eeuted.s