The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
DARROW PLEADS
 FOR TWO YOUTHS
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came so rough that half hundred ex- tra policemen had to be summoned. A small riot preceded the opening of the afternoon session. The struggle to gain admission to the already crowded courtroom ended only when the re- enforced police carried out Judge Cav erly's order to clear the entire build ing.
 Those who won through and past the guardians of the court portals sat with craning necks throughout the hot afternoon absorbing every voice drop ped until it was inaudible ten feet away. At such times even the attor- neys had to lean forward in their ad- vantageous seats to catch the words primarily for the ears of Judge Cav erly.
 At the outset of his argument, Mir. Darrow declined that the millions of dollars possessed by his clients fami- lies had been a positive handicap to the defense. He spoke too of the attitude of local newspapers, which, he charged, had inflamed public opinion against Leopold and Loeb.
 ''There are times when poverty is fortunate and this is one of those times" he said. Wildly extravagant stories were published without basis of fact. They said this was to be an effort to save the two boys by the use of money"
 Mir. Darrow denied that, pointing out that the experts called by the defense were to receive fees based upon their regular charges for professional serv- ices and that he, himself, and his as- sociates had agreed to take such an amount as the Chicago Bar association thought proper.
 He declared that the states attor- ney was asking for a death sentence in the face of conditions that made it contrary to precedent? asserting that only one murderer had ever been sem fenced to death in this county after a plea of guilty. He took fling at Mir. Grove by pointing out that it was the latter, while chief justice of the crim- inal courts, who had sent that man to the gallows.
 Makes Admission
 Then Mir. Darrow frankly admitted that the defense had pleaded guilty be- cause they were afraid to place cause before q jury"
 He said he-and his associates fully realized the heavy responsibility they udu ulOA luC JuuSSt dlu If responsibility is divided by 12, it is easier to sway it. But if these boys hang there can be no division of re- sponsibility. You can never explain a hanging by saying that other courts overpowered you"
 Taking up an analysis of the case itself, Mir. Darrow read from a scrap of paper the epithets which had been applied to the crime by Thomas Mar shall and Joseph Savage, assistant states attorneys. "Cowardly, dastard- ly, fiendish, cruel, premeditated and cold-bloOded," he read and then pro- ceeded to argue against the fitness of each of them.
 Hanging, he said, would be more cowardly and cold-blooded than the crime itself. The killing of Franks, was one of the least dastardly and cruel" he had ever known about, he said, and in justification of this state ment declared tha tthe standard to be applied here was the suffering of the
 Bobby Franks suffered very little, !" he said. "He was dead within fifteen minutes after entering the automobile. He may not have known what hap pened,"
 Depreciates Ransom
 Mir. Darrow declared stupid" the theory of the state that the $10,000 ransom money was the motive for the crime. He pointed out Loeb's private checking account of $3,000 and the testimony of the secretary to Leopold, Sr., that young Leopold was free to get money from the secretary for the ask ing.
 "The murder was not for money" he charged, with scorn emphasized again by the shaking forefinger. Tt was the senseless act of immature and diseased children, wandering around in the dark, whose lives we can not thoroughly un- derstand."
 He ridiculed the claim by the state