Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-10
FULL CONFESSIONS
Of BOY MURDERERS
REVEALED BY STATE

kidnap for ransom and kill for ex-
citement and experiment, some rich
: mans son, was disclosed in their
confessions, made public by States
Attorney Robert e. Grove after the
grand jury indicted both on twenty
six counts charging the kidnapping
E for ransom and killing Of Robert
Franks on May 81. Both offenseA
are punishable with death. The In
dictr1ents were returned this morn
Both youths were ordered held
without bail by Chief Justice cav
erly. of the criminal court
The prisoners were indicted JOINT
". The murder indictment con-
tanned eleven counts and the KID
mapping indictment 16 counts.
At luncheon their meals were
brought in from the outside. Last
nicht the boys dined on frieo
chicken and other delicacies. Cigars
and cigarettes generally accompany
the meals.
e A number of anonymous and sar-
castle postal cards and letters have
been received by the prisoners. one
postal picture bore a birds eye view
of Joliet penitentiary. One CORE
spondent wrote: Don't worry
you're in a country where justice is
measured by wealth"
Third Indictment Likely
The arraignment probably will be
Wednesday, according to plans of the
states attorneys office, but detl-
mite date has not been fixed. Trial
may be asked for June Is.
- Leopold and Loeb are expected to
be named in a third Indictment now
pending before the grand jurors aid
charging conspiracy to murder but
it is not expected they will ever go
to trial on that charge which carries
u only a penalty of one to five years
in. prison. That Indictment will be
sought by the state merely for the
purpose Of getting before the grand
jurors the testimony of certain addi-
tional witnesses.
A nurse who once had attended
Loeb, Mrs. Theodore Mendedar, call
ed at the Jail to see the boys today
which was visitors day and the boys
were accessible, separated only from
their callers by q steel screen. While
standing at the screen Mrs. Mende-
idar tainted.
Every Detail Planned
Both boys slept well last night and
ate heartily at breakfast. During the
return of the Indictment the youths,
whose presence was not needed, play
ed indoor baseball in the Jail bullpen.
Every detail of the crime was care
fully planned long before it was per-
petrated, mere chance furnishing the
victim as he was walking to his
!, home from the playground Of pri-
: vate school, according to the confess
sion made pubic by Mr.. Grove. I'm
scemotionally, the confession related
how, with the victim slain and his
body covered by an automobile robe
in the rear of their rented car, the
slayers stopped at a restaurant and
are sandwiches before carrying out
their plans for the burial and de-
mand Of $4,000 ransom.
Elaborate details had been worked
cut for the collection OF the money
which was 10 be placed in safe de
post vault and kept for a year be-
fore being spent.
Three Little Slips
Extreme care had been taken that
there might be no slip in putting the
plan into effect. But neither of the
youths had bargained for the dis
covery of the body the day after it
had been hidden, the finding Of 3
pair of glasses later identified as
Leopolds near the body. and the
father of the slain boy forgetting in
his excitement part Of the directions
for delivering the money.
1.-The process of getting the money
was the most difficult problem"
!. Leopold's confession said. 1--WE had
:. several plans and all were good for
ere reason or another. Finally we
hit on the one to throw the money
from moving train, after we had
the given point marked.
1.-THE next problem was the sys
tenn of notification. We had a plan
for a. number of relays. The thing
was to tell the man that his son was
kidnapped and being held for ran
som.
HE was to secure $4,000 in de-
nominations as follows: SIS 900 in $50
bills and $4,000 in 500 bills. We were
to get old bills so the numbers
would not be in sequence.
Victim Picked on Day of Crime
He was then TO receive a phone
call instructing him to so to a
refuse box and there he was to get
a note instructing him to proceed
to a drug store and to wait near
the phone booth. The store was to
be near the railroad tracks and he
was to be given only time to rush
out to the depot and board a through
train, without having time to notify
!. detectives or the police where he
was going.
''In the train he was to proceed
to the rear of the car where the
telegram blanks were kept and
there he was to be instructed to so
to the back platform and face east
until the train came to a large brick
factory that had a water tower on
it with the white inscription Cham
pion. He was to count two or three
and then throw the box as far east
as he could.
THE next problem was to get the
victim, and we were undecided until
that day. Then we decided to take
the most likely looking subject that
,.Game our way. 1t just happened TO
be Robert Franks. Richard was ac-
duainted with him and called him