The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11

throughout the six weeks of the hearing previously to August %.
 He read with great rapidity too and rushed to his conclusion without or dering the defendants to stand to re- ceive their sentences.
 When the formal language of the sentence brought him to the point where he read directly to You, Nathan Leopold, Jr.,' and again to You, Rich ard Loeb," there was only the briefest rection of the youths.
 The boys listened intently Loeb's ''poker" face lacked it's customery high coloring, but his facial muscles were un- der perfect control. Loeb's lower jaw hung hit loosely as he sat with parted lips, drinking in every word of the courts findings.
 Judge Caverly's first definite conclu sion was that the pleas of guilty did not make special case in favor of the defendants. The smiles which the states attorney and his assistants wore into court did not abate jot at this. Nor did it operate to relieve the gray ity with which Mir. Darrow and his associate defense counsel, Walter and Benjamin Bachrach, listened to the judge.
 Youths Alone
 A few moments later there was further pronouncement depressing for the defense when the court adjudged that neither in the act itself, nor in antecendents of the offenders" was 4Lo-o lo fo,,pl aov iUi if,0 oi ron m. stances.
 Sounded Like Death
 It sounded like death sentence and the impression was heightened as the judge followed his summary with quo tations from the statutes defining the crime of murder and kidnapping for ran som and fixing the penalties there for.
 Then he suggested that in cases of such great responsibility some states had wisely provided that three judges should determine the penalties. There was a note of weariness in his voice as he said; =
 "The court would have welcomed the counsel and support of others"
 Nevertheless the court is willing to meet his responsibilities" he added firmly. Still the shadow of the gal lows hung in the tense room; but the next sentences dispelled it.
 Tt would have been the path of least resistance to impose the extreme penalty of the law. In choosing impris onment, instead of death, the court is moved chiefly by the consideration of the age of the defendants, boys of IS and 19 years.
 Youth was in the ascendant now and the defense attorneys faces showed an ever Tightening burden while the pros ecutors in turn became grave as the import of the words struck home.
 The boys themselves remained at rigid attention. Loeb blinked and gulped, but not perceptible muscle moved in Leopold. The latter's aged father raised streaming eyes to the bench, and his older son, Foreman Leo pold, who has supported the stricken father by word and presence through out the ordeal, squared his athletic shoulders in relief,
 Allen Loeb, brother of "Dickie' 'and their uncle, Jacob Loeb, former presi- dent of the Chicago board of educa- tion, shifted to more upright positions.
 There followed words of counsel to the public, the court asking that the people generally consider the ''pro- longed suffering of years of 6onfine- ment'' would be ''the severer form of expiation" to youths "of the type they are" reared in homes of luxury, sue cessful in school and unquestioned in their goings and comings by indulgent parents.
 Again the court digressed as in a few sentences he advised future off cials of the state department of public welfare not to parole the offenders.
 Against Parole
 ITO such a policy the court urges them strictly to adhere,' he said. There remained only the formal words of the actual sentence, delivered without