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


posture, Loeb slightly smiling at in
tervals.
Each was handcuffed to a guard,
Il second guard walking behind.
Rcbulles Photographers
Court convened at $3.50.
Without preliminary, after taking
his seat, Judge Caverly started
reading his decision. He halted to
/. rebuke photographers.
AS Judge Caverly rapidly read his
! decision the two boys gave him Il
very studied and inexpensive in
spection Loeb, with his hands rest
| ing on his legs, and Leopold, with
hands crossed. head slightly in
clined, scarcely moved. They were
virtually immobile.
| Not a muscle moved in Leopold. S
face as Judge Caverly indicated life
Imprisonment was to be his fate.
Loeb rapidly hlinked his eyelids.
| gulped almost unnoticeably and
slightly contracted his lips. Not a
portion of their todies moved.
Court adjourned ten minutes after
| converting
barrow Is Through
"That finishes my connection
| barrow, veteran chief counsel for
the defendants, whose plea on be
half of youth overcame the states
| insistence on the death penalty.
| Leopold ana Loeb were quickly
| on their feet when court had been
adjourned. Leopold, by his own
momentum and the thrust Of his
| bailiff, was almost through the
crowd en- route back to his cell be-
! fore Loeb had been started. Loeb
| took a few seconds to grip barrow S
arm and pressed his lips in an evil
! dent control of emotion.
They accompanied their guards
with quick strides and the express
sion on their faces was unchange-
able.
The sentencing took place in a
| setting without parallel in the
| criminal Jurisprudence of Illinois
| Hundreds of detectives and police
men-mounted, motorcycle and pa
trolmen-formed a biistling barrier
about the his, ORIG Cook county
| criminal courts building and two au-
! tomobile loads of picked riflemen
were told off to accompany judge
John r. Caverly to his last task
in the criminal courts section
-Four possible judgments had been
left to him under the Illinois sta
tute-death on he gallows, life i'm.
| prlsonment fourteen years to life
and directing tlial by jury But it
was with only the first two that
| public opinion concerned itself
since it was over only life and death
| f.,
the six weeks o. the hearing OF
evidence in mitigation and aggrava-
ton. The state terming the case
one which merited death for the
youthful defendants. pleaded for the
death penalty, while the defense
! asked imprisonment for life.
| The defense's case marked a new
| departure i'll th,>t it was designed
| TO show that Loeb and Leopold were
mentally diseased but short of in.
sanity in the legal sense" and
therefore, while not subject to in
generation in Il hospital for the
criminal insane, should be sent to
the state peniteatary for life rather
than be hanged.
Many Threats Against Judge
| Throughout. the hearing and dur
ing the fortnight since Judge Cav.
| erlN retired to study the lengthy
| record and formulate his decision,
ne was the target for thousands of
ietters from many countries. His
lie has been threatened no matter
| what verdict he renders The VIC
lence of those pleading with him
| Tor lenlency has been euualled by
letters threatening his death, tho
! deaths of Loeb and Leopold and the
! bombing of the criminal courts
| building should his judicial deter.
| mlnat.on be swayed away from fhe
SauoWs. Therefore, the most m.
usual precautions.
throughout the nisht extra
guards waited in judge CaverIy's
courtroom and patrolled the criminaI
courts building. With dawn the
force was augmented gradually. and
! 9oO armed Officers had instructions
| TO be IN the square about the old
slX,story brick building by a. m.
Ihelr orders were to keep all per.
sens outside a radius of one city
! Book from the courts building.
Inside the building only those
! daily engaged there were permitted.
! Ia Judge Caverly's courtroom only
! the defendants and their relatives.
members of the Franks family, the
! attorneys and wspapermen were
allowed.
/ Spend Night in Reading
On the last night OF uncertainty
/ as to their fate the slayers had not
! appeared worried over today's posi-
1 bilities.
Both ate heartily, and then read
/ books for longer than an hour.
~ hc
niSht warden said they hailed him
Sleepily when he made his rounds a
few minutes later.
The boys were in excellent spirits
yesterday, joking with visitors. Leo
pold offered to wager on Judge Cav
erly's lewiston.
IN bet we hang. or bet we don't
take your choice he said.
Both Loeb and Leopold had pre-
pared themselves carefully for to-
days court room appearance. They
had their clothes pressed yesterday
and Loeb recently got a new suit to
wear while Leopold obtained new
shoes.
Streets surrounding the crimina!
courts building were virtually de
serted shortly before s o'clock. the
only visible signs of activity being
Tue SlIent patrOI or pOllCemen at In
tervals of about a hundred feet in
each of the four blocks forming the
square in which the court building
and county Jail are located.
The entrance to the courts build,
Ing was guarded by a squad of de
tectives. each member of which
closely scrutinized every person en-
tering the building. Credentials
which were necessary to pass each
sentinel in the street leading TO the
entrance were carefully inspected.
There were no loiterers or prospec-
tive spectators before the building
NJ this time
Passes on Elevator
Passing the first barrier. the Pc.