The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
GRINS FADE AS YOUTHS FACE PAST Sight Of Death Tools Shakes Leopold And
 LOeL
 GROVE CONTINUES :. TO HEAP EVIDENCE Dip Into Dark Ages Taken By Former Friend
 On Stand ARETINO'S BOOK
 IS MENTIONED Gambling Instincts Of Accused -l H ~ Lads Reviewed By Student
 Companions
CROWE CONTINUES TO HEAP EVIDENCE
ARETINO'S BOOK
 IS MENTION ED
BY H. H. ROBERTSON

BY H. H. ROBERTSON
 (By Leased Wire to The Age, ,Heraid)
 CHICAGO, July 24.-Gr.im spec ters of the past, of night of tragic violence, arose in. court Thursday before Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb to reproach them for the brutal abduction and murder ot 14-year-old Robert Franks.
 These were. silent ghosts, resur- rected from a cabinet of death--a steel box--by States Attorney Robert E. Grove. But their very nuteness was as effective as If they had spoken with tongues of flame to scar the souls of the two youths. For they were the relics of a crime characterized by the prosecuting attorney as the most atrocious in the annals of criminal Jurisprudence.
 I,eopoid and Loeb, on trial without a jury before Chief Justice John k, Coyerly of the criminal court, were silent and shaken in the presence ot fhese objects connected with the Kill ing. although at times, when some blt of testimony amused them, they laugh ed and ioked with each other. But when various witnesses handled the i'm. pIements they used to kill Bobby Franks and the typewriter on which Ta,solne notes were pounded out inc sIelheanor of the slagers changed. kfse, bold turned ashen gray: when tlle 2 El1sSs. ss with which FraTks was struck over ths head was produced. Loeb lost ms all Of bfazen defiance and slouched doWu in his chair, his face study m. con, flicting emotions, when Grove proauceo Leopold's horn-rimmed glasses. ens same glasses that led to the solution eol
 An Unreal Atmosphere
 Parvadine the unreal atmosphere created by the bringingsfr from cabinet The implements of killing, there was an unbealthy aroma, that of perverslon, oi torture for the sake of satisfying cnrosity. of strangers and unnatural nractices-all relies of the dark ages
 The shadow of the terrible Italian pietro Aretino, whose writings cen tnries ago resulted in crimes and yto. iance. and whose own life exemplltled his teachings, had come into twen' f;eth century courtroom. In this court two bows. admittedly disciples of his and followers of some of his teachings were facing possible hanging for daily ing. with human life, even as Aretlno
 Ii was the first time. since the hear, inc started that the prosecution had permitted any of the strange unhuman and unnatural phases of the Franks ease to come out through witnesses C,rowe. in his opening address, had hfnted at abnormalities, at strange vaearies in which the slayers were wont to indulge through riotous days and nights.
 mente," a book so terrible In It's con text and scope that it never has peen translated into English, became Av' ing reality in the Franks case, 10 re proach the two young muiti-milIion sires' sons who 50 calmly confessed tf Iilline the son of friend and neighbor and their own friend, that they might get "easy money"
 MandeI TestiRies
 It was through Leon Mandel, End a nrosperous young merchant, reputeu to he n millionaire, that the courtroom scene rolled back through the cen 4nries to an Italian writer of the darH ages. whose works had interested hlm he admitted, and whose teachings en thralled- Leopold.
 Mandel, a snug, self-satisfied type was attired in light gray suit and had accentuated his personality with z h;zsrre lie of many colors, The wit ness. his attire, his tie and his sleeh biack hair plainly were the envy of tht conrtroom sheiks and their tlappers SSho crowded forward in undisgulseC admirotion-or curosity-as this young hnsiness men described his relations
 Wsndel said he was well acquainted with both the defendants, in fact, he had played bridge many times wtth them! Grove, brusque and even more forceful and imperious than he had been during the opening session yes fprday. plunged into his subject at once
 "Did YOU and Nathan Leopold, at any time, attempt to accomplish ths translation of any worksT Grove
 "Yes. we collaborated on the work of Pietro Aretino," the witness re' piled. room. Leopold looked at the floor Mandel faced the prosecutor squarely He felt he had taken only the interest in the book that any stuueht' any thinker. might evince, and he was pre- pared to justify his attitude. Grove made no attempt to antagOnize him.
 Had you made a study of Aretino with Leopold?" the prosecutor asked
 'Yes, but I had gone into the sub feet more deeply than Leopold" the witness answered. T did most of the translation from German and Leopold did the typewriting. We helped each other" ,. .,
 "What was the name of this work ?i
 "RaEionmente, or Dialogues"
 Do you know whether Leopold made any protracted study of this book"
 "No, sir, all I know is that he helped me translate it. L really did the actual translation and he did the typewriting.
 Describing the bridge parties which
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