The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-23
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head with a chisel and go on about
their business.
''They drove in the open highway
in broad daylight within half a
block Of their own home, where
every one knew them, and yet they
say this was the sane act Of sane
men.
Whatever hate and frenzy may
do to the human mind, no man
can say this act was not the act Of
diseased brains. There is no ether
explanation for it.
Had it not been for the wealth,
the weirdness, and the publicity
they would have been placed in a
psychropathic hospital, and not
brought into this court with people
bowling for the blood Of these two
irresponsible lads"
Did Not Spare Details
barrow did not spare the details
OF the crime. They dragged this lit
tie boy into the back seat, he said,
and covered his body with j robe,
Q bloody covering on small frame.
Who ever heard of anything like
III! he cried. I've been practicing
law for forty-five years and 1
never did,
He traced the route Of the death
car through the bustling streets of
Chicago's south side, Nathan Leo.
pold driving the car, Richard Loeb
on the back seat and the little
dead boy between them"
Why" he shouted, the slightest
accident to the car, an arrest for
speeding would have brought q
thousand eyes on them.
THE mad act of the fool in
King Lear is the only thing I can
think of to compare with it. And
yet doctors will say that it was
the sane act of sane men.
TELL me that is sanity? Tell me
these boys brains are not diseased?
We need no experts, no x-rays, no
endocrine gland study-their very
conduct proves it. They should
be taken to a hospital and treated
kindly and with care.
They drove this car for twenty
miles, through busy streets, pass.
ing hundreds Of automobiles, Leo.
pold driving, Loeb in the back seat,
and the corps Of poor little Bobby
Franks between them, blood stream.
ing from him and wetting everything
In the car.
lis that sanity?
You may search the annals of
crime and you will find no parallel.
1T IL utterly at variance with every
thought, act or conduct that actu.
ates normal people in the commits.
sion OF crime. There isn't a normal
thing in It from beginning 70 end.
A Maniac Plan.
''The State says they planned.
Yes, but it was a maniac plan, an
idiot plan, an animal plan-any
brain that functions may plan--but
their plan was the diseased plan OF
diseased minds.
Does anybody need to more than
glance at 1t, or any man with a
fair intellect and decent regard for
human life, doubt this. But be.
cause Of it we have got to fight,
and for what? For the right to
send these boys to solitude and dis.
grace for their natural lives in the
penitentiary.
I'VE are forced to fi~'1t to per
suade the States attorney and the
court to be merciful enough to lei
these two boys be put in prison
until they die
barrow smashed his fist on the
table in from of him SO that the
books and paYers ratified there.
IT some times wondef.f he said
whether / am dreaming, whether
am not living in centuries Ions
fone by when savagery roamed al
will and the world was wet with
human blood.
"What do they want? Is not a
lifetime behind bars, in solitude
and disgrace, 10 not that enough
Is there any reason why the public
should be RECALLED with hanging?
But, no, the news of this weird
crime has been telegraphed to the
fout corners Of the earth, and men
are controlled by passion, and fear
and hate"
Any killing is horrible, barrow
said.
death arouses the same fear in