The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
YOUTHS COUNSEL TO SEEK DELAY IN MURDER TRIAL
Preliminary Hearing In Leopold, Loeb Case Set
 For Monday
By HAROLD ANDREWS By Leased Wire to Age Herald.

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 CHICAGO, July 19.-Al the arts of the legal trade, all the ingenuity that money and brilliant law training can devise, will descend upon Chicago Mon. day when preliminary hearings open for the city's greatest murder case--the trial of the two pampered intellectuals, Nathan Leopold and Richarc, Leob, for the murder of young Robert Franks.
 Chicago, thoroughly inured to mur- ders and their aftermath and only thrilled by one of exceptional dramatic quality, is taking this one. as an attrsc. tion rigaling the old worlds fair in municipal importance.
 TO Seek Delay
 Tho traaf is sehedvled to open on AuenSt {. But set astss lnsan little h tke life of argumentatfye attoEAeys. All the familiar tactics. and . few new ones,, will be employed to delay prces- dure when the preliminaries begin Mon day. Clarence Darrow, attorney for the defense. will move the indictments be duashed. He does not expect his motion to be granted, but the formality will consume time.
 Then he will seek to force postone- nert of the trial, arguing that August 4 is too early and does not permit suf- ticient time to select the jury
 The two central figures in the drama, the youths who confessed to the killing of young Franks because of the new ad- venture it supplied them, calmly await their life battle, and speculate keenly on the intricate legal turns which con sel for both sides are expected to en- ploy. Both Leopold and Leob were law students. The fight to save them from the gallows is one thing, but to these 1S- year-old prodigies the movements of the law through the course of the trial IS something apart, subject for faseinat- ing study. May Be, Prolonged
 The trial may be prolonged indefi- nite1y. After the defense has employed all the methods of obstruction, it will seek to dodge the issue by raising the point, where was the murder com mitted, in Illinois or Indispa?" Nobody, according to Clarence Darrow, has ever asceftained this fact. Franks was struck in the head while Leopold and Leob were fleeing with him in a motor car. But before his death was discov- cred, according to Darrow, the boys had crossed the Illinois line and passed into Indiana,
 If the prosecution cannot prove the crime was committed in Illinois, the case must be thrown out of the Chicago courts, Darrow contends.
 If all this strategy fails. then the de- fense will settle down to it's main line of action, the attempt to prove that Leopold and Loeb are insane and should be committed to an asylum. Two con tingents of alienists will be paraded through the court by each side to prove, respectively. CD that the boys are sane i; (2) that they are insane.
 We'll Covered
 Chicago's interest in the case, and that of the nation, will be aratified by newspaper preparations for covering" the event which rival those accompany ing q national political convention. Nearly 200 newspaper correspondents. ranging from working reporters to spe- cial writers, will tell the waiting world the story of Leopold and Loeb. Tele- graph wires will run from the court room, noiseless typewriters will be em- ployed as at national convention.
 Fortunes are being spent to save two college graduates, abnormally intellec- tual sons of multi-millionnaires, from the, hangman's moose. Chicago waits, exeitedly, for the unfolding of the story.