Evening star., 1924-08-28
JUDGE SCORES STATES ATTORNEY
T AS FRANKS CASE COMES TO END
Viii Fix Sentence on Too SLayers Sept lO-Charges
CrO,Ue Tried to Intimidate Him in
-. Last Plea.

to the judge that two Chicago boys,
16 and 1s years of age, had confessed
ito the States attorney last night
they had murdered a woman for $50"
He then resumed his discussion OF
the banking transactions of young
Loeb ss revealed from the statement
from two of his banks. covering some
Is mpnths before the crime.
He alluded early in his address to
'crimes A, B, c and d. and suggest
ed that the larger deposits revealed in
the bank statements may be ex-
planned by A. B, c and D."
Sticks to Money Motive. ,E
He turned then to his theory OF
money motive citing again the
quotation from the first ransom letter
written to Jacobs Franks. the father
of the victim, in which the defendants
told the parent that this is strictly
commercial proposition"
Attacking the defense argument
that the pathological nature of Leo
uold was Subnormal. Mr.. Grove chal-
lenged the Interpretation Of the facts
by Mr. Darrow.
THE only pathological irregularity
revealed in this case was that Leo
polds pineal glan1 is calcif1ed," he
said and then he argued the prop
osition that this was evidence, not OF
weakness, but of advanced develop
ment. Loeb's only pathological con-
dition. he said, was due to depraved
habits.
Lfkened to Soldiers.
He argued that soldiers were sent
to the fields of France to defend the
laws of the nation at Is years" and
that If boys are sent to sleep be-
M no France
defend the law, then these men at 1S
should pay their penalty for viola
tion of that law"
Citing book on criminology by
Mr. Darrow, the prosecutor stated
that this authority tells us that the
criminal ages are between II and "a.
"And your honor, how in the name
OF logic can it be argued if the
criminal age is at youth, that youth
Is a defense?"
The court then took up a brief for
NAL nearing on the pleas of guilty to
kidnapping for ransom, crime which
is also punishable by death in IL
linois.
/ Boys Hanged for Murder.
Reviewing the record of young men
hanged in Illinois, Mr.. Grove recalled
the hanging of Thomas Schultz at 49,
These were not the poor sons of
r1ultimillionaires," he explained i'm
passionately. These were the rich
sons of poor men: men brought up in
the tenements, picked up from the
gutter: who had been denied the ad-
vantages of intellectual development.
He cited the case of negro hanged
at IS.
walter krauser, sitting now in the
county Jail in Chicago, marking on
the days until he shall hang, is 81,
your honor" Mr.. Grove said.
He recalled Judge Caverly's having
once sentenced a young negro to
death for murder.
Ancestors Were Slaves.
His ancestors two genera tions
back were slaves; and only very few
generations separated him from saw
agery in Africa. He was not highly
developed intellectually. but he paid
the penalty of the law"
Recognizing that the age of mur-
ders is between IT and "a, with the
average at close to %. are we going to
tell the world of the new law. written
into the statutes of Illinois by Clar-
ence Darrow and approved by the chief
justice of the criminal court of Cook
County that youth is q defense? That
youth is a mitigating circumstance?
Shall we do this. your honor? Or
shall we send out the word that the
laws of Illinois shall be enforced?
These two brilliant young law
students believed they. had a right to
take the life of young Bobby Franks
at IA, if the court please" Mr.. Grove
shouted.
Speech by barrow.
Mr.. Grove cited another case of a
Chicago boy sentenced to death at 10.
and then read excerpts from a speech
once delivered by Clarence Darrow be-
fore the prisoners of the Cook County
Jail.
The quota tions set forth the view of