The Washington times., 1924-07-28
KHAN CANDIDATE
HOLDS LEAD
IN TEXAS
Judge Robertson Has 90, 900
Votes to Good IN Fight
For Governor

X. X. X. candidate, today was
holding lead Of nearly 10000 votes
over his eight opponents In the
Texas gubernatorial PRIMARIES, and
q woman, Mrs. Miriam Ferguson,
was battling for . place n the run
AZ the work 81 ballot counting
got underway this morning, but
nineteen out % Texas, 2S2 counties
had yet to be tabuIated and the two
high contestants for second place
were separated by but 12e votes.
Out Of the total vote Of 464.g95
that had been counted. a. the cleo.
ton bureau resumed ite work to-
day, Robertson had polled 12l,S61:
Lynch Dawson, 94,So6: Mrs. Miriam
Ferguson, e4,76S, and wv. 7. David
SON, present lieutenant governor,
fe,Sl6. The other five candidates
were out q the running.
know Re was connected with Il.
HE would Be IN truth, the
Master Criminal mind Of the cen-
tury. He would work out d wop-
derful plan for crime that would
stir the whole country ana never
BE- solved"
And he alone was 70 know the
solution. Detectives, police. law
yers and ali OF the 10000. 900 peo-
pie IN the United States were to be
thunder stricken and Mortified and
ignOrant--and Diclky Loeb alone was
to know the real truth.
That according to tho scientists,
was 70 be Diclky LOeb's intellectual
superiority"
The fact that little Bobby Franks
was the victim was simply coin
cidence. AZ he trudged along home
ward, his school books under his
arms, he became painfully and
tragically available for the great
experiment Of these super-intellect-
uals. It might just a. well have
been some one else; indeed, It would
have been perhaps, had Bobby not
happened along.
It could Just as easily have been
Bobby Smith or Johnny Jones. pro-
vided their parents were wealthy
and Of sufficient prominence to at
tract to the case the publicity and
furOre that the egoism Of the two
master criminals" demanded.
Planned Other Victims
As q matter Of fact, the alienists
found Leopold and Loeb had talked
over many victims, not the least Of
whom were Allen and Ernest Loeb,
older brothers Of ''DiclSy,' who had
got him out Of many boyish
ecrapeS. They also talked Of Fore
man Leopold, brother Of Babe"
but Foreman, or mike" as Inc was
more Familiarity known. had always
been solicitous for his younger
brother, and 80 Nathan objected to
him. They even talked Qf making
their own fathers the victims. But
that, too, presented difficulties.
Bobby franks was little. he
wouldn't be apt to fight 90 much
as the cold chisel bashed In HIS
skull, and the rope about his neck
became tighter and tighter. choking
the breath out OF his body. 1t
would be well, they decided to
start easily. There were to be
other crimes Of the century evolved
from thes. super.intellects and the
others could wait.
The implements Of murder 1.-The
chisel and the rope-Loeb lightly
spoke Of to the doctors who ex-
amined as his toys" They were
to him what brush il to the
painter, a trowel to the mason-a
means Of accomplishing his life
work.
The only remorse the aIienists
could fine In either Of the young
was the remorse at
being caught-the ignominy that
the stupid, blundering police "of
low intellectually" were success
full In discerning the signature on
the masterpiece Of their artistic
plan.
Leopold himself summed It up
30 aptly when he said.
Murder IL no crime-the crime
Is In getting caught"
No Heredity.
There Is nothing about that
patients condition to show any
evidence Of a hereditary nature"
said the doctors report. '.And
there Is no reason to believe that
q condition Of this kind would be
to future generations
by any OF their relatives. This con.
ditiOn Is acquired within the life
history Of the individual and dies
out when he dies"
That for the families Of the two
boys. And then again:
There b nothing from . most