Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-11

onions and all the side dishes you
can get, AMI chocolate eclairs, as
| it may be our last good meal"
Nathan Leopold and Richard |
Loeb cried to Sheriff Hoffman |
when the latter visited them in |
| their cell u few moments after |
sentence was imposed.
| The youths were happy and |
| made no effort to hide their |
| feelings.
I'VE feel fine" they cried.
They laughed and chatted and |
shook hands with each other.
sixth floor was challenged four times
before finally gaining admission.
Bailiffs and deputy sheriffs formed
receiving line on both sides OF
the lobby on the lower floor.
Through this gauntlet, whether
seeking the elevators or the open
stairway, the credentials again were
read. The elevator operator again
asked for passes. If the stairs were
taken upward, two burly guards
made the same request
All elevators stopped at the fifth
floor where again a squad of de-
tectiVes, bailiffs and deputy sheriffs
commanded the narrow stairway 10
the sixth floor After passing mus.
ter here, the person seeking admis-
sion again was stopped at the lobby
entrance to the court room by an
other group of officials, who gave
a pass the final "Once- lover"
On all stairWays, on each floor
and in almost every nook and cor
ner in the rambling structure, from
one to four representatives of the
law were stationed. Extreme quiet
petvaded everywhere, what little
talking there was being in a sub
dued tone.
In scarcely more than half hour
Austin avenue, the street bordering
on the south Of the courts building,
was 81 seethinS mass of trucks, auto
mobiles, motorcycle policemen. traf-
flee officers and WOulu-be spectators
The criminal courts building is To-
Gated in one of the busiest wholesale
and manufacturing districts of the
city, which made the traffic prob
lem more difficult.
Caverly Arrives Under Guard
Every one was kept moving.
Mounted police at street intersections
on the south side of the building
frantically waved heavy trucks, push
carts and horse drawn vehicles into
action. Passersby, regardless of
their destination, were ordered to
keep moving by the knots Of polite-
men, whose numbers i'll the mean
time had been considerably strength
ened.
AT a quarter of nine the courtroom
bad slightly more than a score of
persons present.
Judge John r. Caverly, piloted by
Il large force of motor policemen and
guarded on all sides by mounted of
ficers, reached the criminal courts
building at twenty minutes of nine
and in a few minutes had made his
way to the court room.
A battery of cameras furnished the
only reception to the judge as he
ali8hted from the ear, in which a
squad of police were riding.
Caverly Veteran
Judge Caverly. who form them
once, at least-has become the most
visible judicial figure, is veteran,
having been on the bench twenty
years, the last three years in the
criminal courts. of which for the last
year he has been chief justice. He
has sentenced a half dozen men to
be hanged
Judge Caverly was born in Lon.
don. England, coming To the United
States with his parents at the age of
six years. He is short and stout,
flOrid face, has CRAVING brown hair
and is in his early fifties. He is
soft spoken. even tempered and of
mo al
tributes enabling him to smooth over
many heated wrangles that arose
during the hearing.
In the long argument by Robert
F.. Grove, states attorney, against
the decision holding it his duty to
hear evidence in mitigation of pun
ishment after Clarence S. barrow.
the chief of the defense counsel had
waived q jury trial and had his
clients plead guilty. Judge CRverly
firmly but always with moderateness
of tone and manner oyerruled the
state.
Under the law he was left no al
tentative. The Illinois statute pro
Vides that on pleas of guilty the
court must hear testimony in agra
walton OF mitigation of which either
state or defense. or both. wishes to
offer. The long arguments which
consumed a week of the hearing
were in accordance with that pro-
vision and by courtesy of the court.
Judge CaVerly placed no restriction
upon either side but warned attor-
neNs he would disregard all matter
which he did not consider germane
to the issue.
a legal aspect of the case Judge
CaVerly had not indicated he would
rule upon specifically today was the
defense's effort TO link mental sick
ness shor. of lie ! insanity with
moral turpitude as a mitigation.
Repeatedly in his argument for
life Imprisonment her than hang
ing. Mr.. DarrOw ASSERTED that COM
mission Of this most foolish crime
was evidence of diseaS d mentalitins.
He sought TO pCint cut that the
youths. denied nothing by their fam
lilies. had no reason for committing
the crime except faulty mentalities
Loeb the SCI o. \. II. Lueb. mil
Honaire vice pre- ident of Sears. Roe
buck and company, IS now nineteen
years old and achieved some distinc-
ton as one of the youngest graduates
Of the University of Michigan. AS
was Leopold, Loeb was taking q
postgraduate course at the Cniver-
sity Of Chicago when arrested and
jus, previously had passed an exami-
nation for entering Harvard.
Grove in His First Term
Leopold.s treatises on bird life