The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
Chicago Youths Joke
 At Lawyer's Charge
Story Of Victims Parents Leaves Leopold And Loeb Unmoved Discuss Weather

coroner's office and Identification of the body by the father and Edwin Gresham, uncle of the slain boy.
 Demands Rehearsed
 The demands for ransom money were brought out early in the proceedings, coupled with a telephone call to Mrs. Franks in which she was informed that her son had been kidnapped but was "safe."
 At that time, however, the boys body was lying face down in the mud and water in the railroad culvert, his fea- Ntures marred by acid.
 The early discovery and identification of the body thwarted the plot to get the S10,000. MT. Franks testified he had obtained the hundred bills of $2O each and the hundred and sixty of $50 denomination demanded by the kid napers," and had wrapped them into the package as instructed by the ransom letter.
 But before he received the final in- structions on delivery he knew that his boy was dead. Consequently he did not respond to a call to go to certain drug store, and it was this fact, coupled with newspaper announcements of the tragedy, that caused Leopold and Loeb to cease their pursuit for the money. LThe states witnesses on the pre- liminaries of the crime included em- ployes of the Morrison hotel, where Loeb registered as Morton D. Ballard, Peo- ria, Ill.," and of an automobile con- cern from whom Leopold, using the same name, rented the death car, first on May 9 and again on May 21.
 A dummy" bank account in Bal lard's name was used to finance these transactions, Leopold depositing funds and checking them out to cash for Loeb to collect.
 The hotel room yielded a wicker suit case, containing four books. One of these volumes, from the reference stocks of the University of Chicago, con tained a card issued to Loeb. His lapse in leaving this in the hotel was one of the few weak spots in the circumstantial armor which the youths built around themselves.
 Personality Stuck" The automobile transactions were Leopolds. His personality was inn pressed on the people from whom he hired the car and they had no diff culty in identifying him as Ballard"
 Loeb's part here was to wait at SIOlCs lClCDHOIC Der was given by Leopold as a credit reference to the garage. Here he im- personated Louis Mason," and told the garage people what a good credit risk Ballard" was.
 While awaiting the call. Leopold's quips and other conversational graces impressed the German family who con ducted the establishment, and they, too, had no difficulty in remembering him and the circumstances of his call when confronting him later at the office of the states attorney.
 The days proceedings stopped here. Tomorrow, in due course, will come tes- timony about the purchase of the chisel with which Franks was stunned, the rope with which he was bound and the acid used i'll an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the features of the victim.
 The college mates are expected to tell about Leopold's ownership of q typewriter corresponding to the one on which the ransom letters were written and which later was fished out of park lagoon, where the murderers had thrown it. The visits of Loeb to the school and all subsequently, observed actions of him and Leopold on May 21 may also be told tomorrow if the case moves TapluIv enough dHu Ine SuppIy of witnesses is not exhausted.
 States attorney Grove said tonight that he may ask Judge Caverly to make to the swamp where the Franks boys body was found. Mir. Grove ex- pressed great satisfaction with the first days presentation of evidence and said he expected to finish the direct presentation of testimony by next Monday or Tuesday. Defense attorney had no comment to make on the days developments remarking that Its not our turn yet"
 The slayers themselves seemed more perturbed over, the heat in the court room than the ordeal of the trial. When reporters hurried to the jail to question them at the end of the days proceedings they found both ill their shirt .,lceves. They had nothing but criticism to offer in regard to the weather. Leopold demonstrated his ability to tell time by watching the suns rays as they strike series of notches on his cell grating. Loeb ex- hibited a new wide belt he is wearing and when chided by the newspapermen quickly retorted:
 If you were we'll dressed, you would have one, too"
 If the court proceedings were an ordeal to the two unusual youths they did not betray the fact by their ac- tions or their conversation.