The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31


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ported January 16, 1924 as havi
hbeen stolen.
former owner of the machine now is
in Europe.
One Witness Missing.
Irwin Hartman, one of the boys who
saw young Franks in the yard of the
Harvard school the afternoon he was
abducted, was out of the jurisdiction
of the court, being in northern Maine,
Mr.. Grove said. He added that Mich
ael Hughes, chief of detectives, was i'll
| in a hospital and could not testify.
/ Court thereupon suspended until 2
p. m.
Court convened for the afternoon
session of the Franks trial at 2:o5
Limit Court Attendance.
"only those who can find seats may
remain in the court room. The others
must go out" said Judge Caverly, as
he faced crowded room at the start
of the afternoon session.
/ Sullivan identified the roll of paper
which has figured in the case as the
dummy package which the boys made
up to Test their plan of having the
ransom money thrown from the train.
Sullivan also identified the other
articles, which he said he turned over
to the police.
The witness testified that he talk
ed with Leopold first, and that Loop
old accused Loeb of striking the fatal
blow, where upon Sullivan said, he
went to the car in which Loeb was rid
! ing and informed him Leopold had ac-
cused him of the staying. Leopold,
he said, directed that he return to
Loeb and tell him that Loeb was gull
ty of the Staying, that the thought of
violence was repugnant to Leopold.
Tells of Conferences.
Captain Shoemaker was recalled and
questioned about his search for evil
dence connecting Leopold, with the
portable typewriter. Then he related
the circumstances under which the
first confessions were given.
Loeb made a statement covering all
details of the crime since he and Leo
pold first thought of it in November,
in 1923, said Captain Shoemaker.
"Then why go into all this detail ~
the judge asked the defense.
"We want to show the circumstance
es," Mr. Grove said.
Captain Shoemaker told of an auto
mobile trip with Leopold to the vari-
Gus places involved in the crime, the
hardware store, where acid was pur-
chased and similar places.
The defense, according to Mr.. OAR
row, will consume about ten days in
presenting its side and to fight the
states avowed plan of sending the
boys to the gallows.
Relatives of the boys may take the
stand in their behalf and Loeb and
Leopold themselves, it was intimated,
may testify. Quetioning of Leo
pold would come as defense reply to
the testimony of Police Sergeant
James Cortland, who quoted Leopold
as saying that he would plead guilty
before friendly judge" and so gain
a life sentence instead of death by
hanging.
Alienists to Defend.
The report of two defense alienists,
DIR, C, M. Bowman, Boston, and DR..
H. C. Hubert, Chicago, made public
Sunday, termed Loeb the leader and
Leopold the willing slave. Both
youths, in the opinion of the doctors,
were fundamentally sane at the time
they committed the crime, but both
were habitual dreamers, obsessed with
ideas Of their Importance and daring.
Loeb is analysed as a criminal since
the cradle. Loeb is the king" and
Leopold the slave. The report says
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der which Leopold places himself alb
solutely under the commands of Loeb"
He believes Loeb superior to himself
and has made him the hero of sort OF
heroworship. He is a PHYSICAL CO.
ward, shuns pain but has no fear OF
death. He is an atheist.
Leopold phantasied himself as
slave who was the strongest man in
the world and who would often fight
for the champion of his side against
the strongest man of the other side
and always win, the report stated.
Leopold's Self Estimate.
In taking up Leopolds estimate of
himself the report says:
"He has always felt himself to be
the intellectual type. He has always
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ally. He has steadfastly tried to make
intelligence the most important thing
in his life and to repress his emotional
side. AS he put it: "My idea was
cold blooded intellect. tried to cut
out the emotional"
Loeb, the report of him says, in
dulged in many criminalistic reveries
and criminalistic practices.
One particular point connected with
all this phantasy was that he was the
master mind who could work out a
wonderful plan for a crime which
would never be solved.
Leopold disdained women and, al
though he had been with them he did
so because "the other fellows did"
Loeb, however, often thought of mar
riage and family life. For his wife,
he has said he would chose sweet
and pretty" girl.
Loeb said that at the time Franks
was killed he got "great excitement,
great heart beating, faster, which wasA
pleasant"
When Franks bled from the blows
on his head Loeb said, Leopold cried
"this is terrible and told him it was
all right and joked and laughed, pos
sibly to calm myself too"