Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-23
HANG BOY SLAYERS
/. To KEEP CITY SAT {,
PROSECUTION SAYS
Savage Recounts Goodness
of Their Scheme for
Ransom Money

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Nathan Leo
pold, Jr., and Richard Loeb should
hang, because such a penalty would
protect the homes and children of
all the community, Judge John j.
Caverly was told to-day by Joseph
Savage, assistant states attorney.
These defendants hold themselves
as super men, above the laws OF God
and man. said Savage. IF they
are hanged we will have no more
such crimes against childhood. If
they are not, we might as we'll
abolish capital punishment and all
previous murderers who have died
on the gallows would have been
treated uniustly."
Mr.. Savage said the world was
watching for Judge Caverly's de-
cision and urged that the majesty of
the law could be upheld only by a
decree of hanging.
Walter Bachrach, junior counsel
for the defense, followed with a dis
mental disease, short of insanity, as
a nlLlSdLlOn OIL punishment
Failure to hide sufficiently the
body of Robert Franks was the
breaking point in the plot of the two
slayers, according to the states
analysis of the crime given before
Judge Caverly by Savage.
In imprisoned denunciations of
the defendants and with waving
arms and pounding fists, Mr.. Savage
T
forced the body we'll into the culvert
instead of pushing it with his foot,
it would not have been found.
''They would not have been APP
pretended in 100000 years. said
Mr.. Savage.
lie described the attempts to get
$4,000 ransom from Bobby's father.
pointing out that the Identification
of the body became known to Mr..
Franks only five minutes before he
received his last message from
George Johnson" the name used
to sign the ransom letter.
Could Not Have Been Traced
Mr.. Savage asserted that Leopold
and Loeb had drawn their plans SO
fine that if the father had followed
directions and gone to a drug store
in q cab furnished by the kidnapers,
he would have oeen sent scurrying
to a railroad station. there to board
a train due to leave a few minutes
later
In the parlor car, the boys had
placed a letter addressed to MIR.
Franks and giving full directions on
how to throw the money from the
moving train.
"They would have reached the des,
ignated point in their automobile
at that precise moment, IF She train
were on time said Mr.. Savage.
How could they have been traced:
No one knew whence catne the tele-
phone cal to Mr.. Franks, nor who
had ordered the cab sent to his
home No one would have known
who telephontd the drug store and
the father We lid have had no chance
to notify the police in advance Of
where he had been told to go or
LCw TO dispose of the money.
ut was a ccldly intellectual plan,
derlish in its deliberations, said
Mir. Savage.
Paralleling the legal reasoning of
Thomas Marshall assistant prose
cutor, who began the states sum-
ming up. the address of Walter
Baclrach is scheduled to open the
defense's oratOry. He will be fol
lowed by his brother, Benjamin, who
is not expected to finish before the
end of the week. The last of the
arguments will be between Clarence
S barrow. veteran chief of defense
attorneys, and Robert F.. Grove,
states attorney.
Paints Culvert Scene
Mr.. Savage picked up his nara
tive of the evidence where he left
off yesterday at the stage of the
crime where Franks body had been
conveyed to the culvert.
He quoted Leopold as having said
he failed to take proper precautions
and tried to force the body in with
his foot. The inference was that the
body would not have been found if it
had been pushed further into the
drain.
The burning Of the clothes Of
Bobby Franks was then described.
ITO show you how cautious they
were in this plan" he added. they
removed from the clothing class
pin and buckle and set aside the
shoes because they knew these OBJ
jects would not burn.
"And Loeb thought of the stencil
that might arise from the blood
stained robe and that, too. was set
aside for later disposition"
He dwelt upon the telephone mes
sage to Mrs. Jacob Franks. the vic.
Tins mother.
Can you picture the feelings Of
that mother?" queried Mr.. Savage.
"C@n you imagine how any one
| could call a mother and tell her
that her son was safe when at that
very moment. he was lying cold in a
water-filled drain pipe"
Describes Ransom Efforts
Further attempts to obtain the
$4,000 ransom from Bobby's father
We're described.
They told Mr.. Franks in the let
ter that this is a strictly CONNER
cial proposition but they didn't even
play fair on that" he shouted.
They could have had the money
without taking life, and the proof
is that Mr.. Franks went to bank
and cOt the money and prepared it
for delivery to these fiends,'
How close the defendants came TO
collecting the ransom was em3Ea-
sized by Mr.. Savage. who pointed
out that only five minutes after Mr..
Franks had been told his son had
been identified, he received a tele-
phone call to take a cab to a drug
! store, where he was to receive fur
Their instructions.
Mr.. Savage quoted Loeb's estimate
Of Bobby Franks as Just the kind
OF a cocky kid one would pick out
to murder"