The Washington times., 1924-09-10

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water Beach Hotel. home of Judge
Caverly. Other cars, with picked
squads Of officers for passengers,
preceded and followed it. These
were Chicago's precautions against
the execution Of threats against
the iurist's life.
Judge Walks to Breakfast.
Judge Caverly exhibited nothing Of
the stern Judge when he arose
shortly after o'clock and left tho
Edgewater Beach Hotel for his
usual pre-breakfast constitutional.
Accompanied by a lone police Of
ficer, the Judge walked br;Skly in
the rather chill air before returning
to the hotel for his breakfast.
Nothing strange about this. !"
Judge Caverly told newspaper men
who greeted him; lit is great
morning for walk. before break
fast, and IL one wants to have a
clear mind, q walk before meal
is necessary. 1 do 1t every day."
Throngs Fill Streets.
BY $50 the crowds outside the
police deadline, which blocked
streets within an entire square of
the courthouse, had augmented to
pushing, jostling thousands, but
around the building itself quiet pre-
vailed. Only the corps Of deputy
sheriffs and uniformed police
gathered just outside the entrance,
the lane of bailiffs from the door
to the elevators and from the ele.
available places in the court room
told that the trial Of the century
was in progress again.
Inside the building an air Of
tenseness prevailed, which must
have pervaded the grim old Jail
building adjoining, behind the barred
windows Of which the young defen-
dants waited. An army Of news
paper men were swarming about the
sixth floor of the building two nIurs
before the time scheduled for the
| court to convene and muted tele-
graph instruments set up in all
available places in the courtroom
were ticking out the news to news-
papers in all corners of the globe.
People Are Orderly
Even the hardened old hailiffs
who stood guard in the court room
were beginning to feel the strain.
They moved restlessly about, hands
wandering to coat lapels and ties,
and talked idly Of inconseQuential
things-the weather, the races, the
days news-anything and every
thing except that which was occu-
plying their minds-Leopold and
Loeb and the fate that awaits
them.
The officers In charge Of the
street guard had reported no dis.
turbance.
Nathan F.. Leopold, ST., entered
the courtroom at 8:45.
Shortly after his arrival Jacob M.
Loeb, uncle of the defendant, and
Allen Loeb, the brother who had
done all in his power to aid young
Dicky. appeared and took seats
near Mr.. Leopold.
Judge Arrives.
Judge Caverly arrived at $50,
walked rapidly through the court
room and entered his chambers.
At 9:20 Leopold and Loeb, who
had been held incommunicado since
last night slipped into the little
ante room adjoining the bull pen,
| looked into the court room crowded
with newspaper men and bailiffs-
and smiled.
Leopold was wearing a dark blue
suit and powder blue bow tie. His
clothes were Immediately pressed,
and he looked like anything but
q murderer awaiting sentence. Loeb
also was wearing clothes BETTING
the college campus.
They were permitted but a mo-
mentary glance, and then a bailiff's
arm guided them into the bull pen.
Not twenty persons in the room
knew the defendants had been per-
mitted their first glance at the
setting in which the verdict Will
be pronounced. against them.
Boys Enter Courtroom.
Exactly at $50 Nathan F. Leo
pold jr., and Richard A. Loeb
walked through the narrow door
leading from the bull pen" to this
little six by four court room
where for weeks they sat as spec
tators while attorneys battled over
their lives and took their accustomed
places in chairs facing the bench.
II the strain was beginning to
tell there was nothing in their out
ward demeanor to show II. There
was none of the nervous fumbling
Of coat lapels, Of shifting of eyes
which had been predicted. They
were the cool. calm intellecLuals
getting another thrill out of bore.
some existence. The court room,
crowded with newspaper men and
| police was balm to their ego. They
were supermen. A nation had its
eyes upon them. They were more
important in the days news than
the round the world filters and they
were bursting with their epic
Not even the knowledge that
when they again walked through
that little door 1t might be only to
await some pitiless dawn when
fhoir lives would ha ant1Rfod n,,t a.