The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-22
GIJILTYPLEA BRINCSCALL FOR MOOSE Loeb And Leopold Confess Staying Of Robert
 Franks
 DARROW RESTS CASE ON MERCY OF COURT States Attorney Declares Sanity Question Not
 Issue Now ACCOUNT OF KILLING ACCEPTED AS TRUE Father Of Victim Demands That Slayers Be Sent 
 To GaIlows
ACCOUNT OF KILLING ACCEPTED AS TRUE
(By Associated Press. )


 CHICAGO, July 21.--The fate of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, IT,, kidnapers and slayers of 13- year-old Robert Tanks, was today placed in the hands of one man John R. Cavcrly, chief justice of the criminal court of Cook county when they pleaded guilty.
 Apparently the only question re- rnainnig to be decided is whether they shall hang or be imprisoned for a double crime without parallel in this Jurisdiction.
 Robert E. Grove, state's attor- ney, reiterated his intention of ask ing the death penalty for the two college students.
 Do Not Sell Freedom
 Clarence S. Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach, attorneys for the defense, announced in court their purpose to see their clents safely incarcerated for life"
 eve have had no intention of trying to restore them to society,"" explained Mfr. Darrow.
 Thus he answered question which T. killing. where the combined wealth of two of the oldest and richest families of Chicago, estimated to have resources of more than $10, ,O00.O0 would be used to tav ta 1et fEee 70 nainnT sosla
 The unexpected denouement stunned court room crowd of attorneys, news papermeB, court attaches and few privileked specta tors, and upset all plans for the trial which had been scheduled to begin August 4. Instead of starting Wednesday, there will be q judicial hearing before an empty jury box.
 Defense Is Quiet
 That the defense was content to await the developments from this hearing was emphasized by the sphinx-like silence that was maintained by all concerned with the defendants. The boys them selves, their parents, special counsel of families and the active defense attorneys declined to discuss the proceedings. The prosecution was a bit more communica- tive.
 ''The plea of guilty admits the sanity of the defendants" said Mir. Grove to- night. ''The question of insanity is entirely out of the case. All the defense can offer at the hearing is evidence tending to mitigate the punishment, Whether they can establish that re- mains to be seen.
 T am going to ask the death penalty in the interest of society. l have about 75 witnesses and they will present all the facts in the possession of the state 50 that the court may be fully advised as to the exact nature of the crime. It will take from ten days to two weeks to do this"
 Admit Facts True
 In their statements to the court today, the defense attorneys acknowledged the correctness of the facts in the case, substantially as published in the news papers," By this they admitted formal ly that their clients on May 21 enticed Robert Franks into rented automobile, stunned him with a blow from tape wound chisel and strangled him to death. They thus admitted, too, that the body was coneyey to q lonely spot across the Indiana line and there stuffed, nude, into small culvert under a railfoad track. They formally acknowledged that the two young men destroyed the cloth ing of their victim, posted a letter de. manding $10,000 ransom from the boy s father and tossed into park lagoon the typewriter on which the missive was written. s
 The defense offered to submit the case on a statement of facts by the state Is attorney, but Mir. Grove decline to agree. They also asked that alienists employed by state and defense confer and 'iron out differences" but again the prosecutor objected.
 There could be no object in such a
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