Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-05
INVESTIGATORS DIG
INTO NEW CHARGES
AGAINST 2 KILLERS
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The boys still showed enmity to-
ward one another today.
They occupied different cells, a
robber suspect having been lodged
with each of them.
They paid no attention to their
cellmates and the latter, while inter
ested in them, nevertheless seemed
to look down on them. Dudes,
they called them contemutuously.
"Yeh, he's got furder to fall"
snickered one bewhiskered prisoner
as he looked at Leopold.
Both Maintain Silence
Since their consultation with law
yers yesterday neither boy has
talked with reporters.
81 felt creepy all night" Loeb
told the assistant jailer. Il can't
sleep very we'll"
Leopold, however, was said to have
slept soundly.
Loeb was polite toward inquirers.
merely saying when asked how he
tell you"
Leopold became irritated and
shouted Il tell you, once and for
ALL won say ally lHlHS.
But yesterday when their family
history was being taken at the Jail.
while Loeb answered all questions,
Leopold, when asked the place of
birth, religion and similar questions.
announced: 81 refuse to answer ex-
cept by advice of counsel"
Writes Love Letter
Just before crossing the Bridge
of Sighs' to the county Jail from
the criminal court building yester-
day, Loeb wrote an intimate per-
sonal note to a girl, expressing his
love for her and asking her not to
grieve for him, but on advice of the
states attorney he destroyed it,
When they first went to Jail, 1t
was Leopold, the dominant figure
who appeared the shaker of the
two when he dropped to a bench
while Loeb stood. But today Leo
pold still had his old composure and
confidence.
eff J. hang" he had said last
night, "There1l be one boy in the
room who will not tremble."
Finding of a letter written to ia
cob Franks by the boys in Mich
igan Central railroad car in New
York has completed the collection of
evidence made by the state, accord
ing to Mr.. Grove, with the exception
of a portable typewriter on which
the ransom demand was written.
Divers are searching a park lagoon
into which the typewriter was
hurled.
Leopold mistaken
The letter found in the railroad
car was part OF the elaborate sys
tenn of directions to Mr.. Franks for
the delivery of the $4,000 ransom,
Mr.. Grove said. Mr. Franks first
was instructed by letter to prepare
the money, then directed by tele-
phone to visit drug store where
he was to receive directions to board
the train and car in which the let
ter was placed, directing him where
to throw the money from a window
The plan miscarried when Mr..
Franks forgot the address Of the
drug store and when the body OF a
boy, found in a culvert earlier in
the day, was identified as his miss
ing son.
The promise by States Attorney
Grove that he will seek the death
penalty for the youths has not shak-
en- Leopold from the contemptuous
philosophical attitude he has main
tanned since first taken into custody.
Death doesn't make any differ
ence." he said. IT'S the end. Why,
nobody's afrand Of DEATH"
He told of two suicide plans he
had made to carry out in the event
they made it too hot for me-" One
was to get ten powders made up,
nine containing baking soda and a
tenth filled with poison. His plan
was to take the poison if he was
unable to talk myself out Of the
mess" The harmless powders were
intended to deceive analysis if a
search was made and they were
found on him.
A second plan was detailed after
detectives found two automatic pis-
tolls in his home after he told them
the weapons had been carried in the
automobile at the time of the kid
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