The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-06
JURY HOLDS BOTH BOYS IN MURDER Loeb and Companion Take News Calmly-"Ex-
 pected It. GROVE TO SEEK
 IMMEDIATE TRIAL States Attorney To De- mand Preference On
 Trial Calendar GIRL FILES SUIT
 CHARGING ATTACK Indentified AsSailants By News Photos. She Tells Au-
 thOFitieS
By M. H. ROBERTSON, By Leased Wire to Age-Eerald. )


 CHICAGO, June 5.-Nathan Leo pold, IT,, and Richard Loeb were indicted by the Cook county grand jury late Thursday on bills charg- ing them with the Kidnapping for ransom and the murder of 12-year- old Robert Franks.
 Two indictments were returned against each of the defendants, one charging Kidnapping for ransom and the other murder.
 The indictments followed imme- diately after one of the confessions, made by Loeb and Leopold, which told how they abducted young Franks and killed him, had been read to the jury by steuographers.
 In Less Than Five Minutes
 The g members of the grand jury wasted no time in returning the bills, and indictments, already drawn up, were presented and voted upon favorably less than five min utes after the grand jury had heard the confession. The confession was later made public by the attorney
 ElAAGC SAtNVEnCk NEONC announced that he would go into court Friday and request that the Franks case be placed ahead of all others on hopeful that the two yOuths w0uid be placed on trial by IuIy 1J, the earliest date which could bt fixed
 Leopold and Loeb are awaiting their arraignment in court with the utmost indifference.
 Notified that the grand jury had req turned two indictments against them, the youths appeared to take an academic attitude toward the announcement
 Expected It''
 Leopold shrugged his shoulders and said:
 We expected it. That's no news to me"
 Loeb studied the floor for a moment, then brscing his shoulders back, and exclaimed
 Well. we are not dead men yet. They're trying to hang every crime in the world on us, but the trial is yet to come It Is all a matter of legal for matty so far"
 And with the stoicism that arpSzed at tendantS in the Jail the two sat u7 sSn in their cells and ate meals ordered frofA a. nearby restaurant. They shared the meals with their cell-mates. Perhaps the news fO their indictments. or the knowledge all day Thursday bills were to be returned against them, had soft ened them.
 The intellectual exquisites. who sat for hour after hour last Friday night and in the early morning of Saturday relating a cOld-blOOded story of how they planned to abduct boys and con duet experiments in human emotion" with them. had forced upon them for the first time the hard fact that all the political influence thrown back of them by their wealthy relatives had not pre- vented the state from having them held for trial for their confessed crime-a crime believed without parallel in the annals of criminal jurisprudence in the United States.
 s6 Witnesses appear
 Seventy-Six witnesses had appeared during the three-day inquiry the grand jury made into the Franks murder be- fore States Attorney Robert E. Grove ordered one of the StenOgraphers to read q portion of the shorthand notes taken during the confession of Leopold. The entire confession was not read. No portion Of LOeb's confession @as intro duced before the jury. No transcript of their confession has been made, mad according tO Grove. it is probable none Will be made until the time of the trial.
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