The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-02
ATTORNEYS ASK,
PERMISSION TO
SEEPAIR HELD
Millionaire Fathers of Chi
cagO Youths Engage COun-
sci for Their Defense
IDENTIFY CLOTHING
Confession Is Substantiated
With the Aid of the Pair,
States Attorney Says
IDENTIFY CLOTHING

tHlcaEo, June :, lBy the A. P.)-
states Attorney Grove announced to-
day as attorneys began their battle
in behalf of Nathan Leopold and
Richard Leob, confessed kidnappers
and slayers of 14year-old Robert
Franks, that he would seek two grand
jury indictments against them to-
morrow.
Inc states attorneys announce
ment came at the moment that peti-
tons for writs of habeaus corpus
were presented to Chief Justice Cav
erly of the criminal court, by coun-
sci employed by the millionaire faith
ers' of Leopold and Loeb. The court
made the writ returnable forthwith
and the prisoners were taken immed-
lately into court.
The legal battle into which the
millions, estimated as high as $25,-
100000, of the Leopolds and Loeb
will be thrown in an effort to save
the boys from the gallows is intend
ed merely to permit legal counsel to
consult with them. The attorneys
say they do not expect to free them.
Indictments charging kidnapinr
= for ransom and for murder, both
punishable by death as provided by
the Illinois criminal code, will be
asked, Mr.. Grove said.
Chief Justice Caverly continued
the hearing on the writ until June
and ordered the boys. sent to Jail
without bond, placing them in the
custody of the sheriff as sought by
the defense attorney.
The inquest in the death of the
Franks lad also was set for TODAY,
How Boy Was Killed
Confessions made public by States
Attorney Grove said the child was
entlced into an automobile owned by
Leopold and Loeb on the afternoon
of Wednesday,, May 81, struck on
the head with taped- wrapped CHS
ell, rolled into heavy blanket with
gag rammed down his throat and
left to die. His body, found some
five hours later, according to con-
fession by Leopold and Loeb, was
stripped and jammed into a culyert
in wild. isolated spot on the far
south side where it accidentally was
found the next morning by pass
ing laborer.
The youthful kidnaper-slayers
who claimed they killed the lad
through a spirit of adventure as
we'll as for the $4,000 ransom thew
demanded of Jacob M. Franks, the
father, gained n new sensation last
hlght-that of being relegated alone
to the police precinct cells with
special guards to keep them from
committing suicide.
Accompanied by detectives and
newspaper men Mr.. Grove took the
boys over the ground they had ira
versed with the body of young
Franks III their rented automobile
and later as they disposed of tell
tale clothing, lap-robes, cold chisel
and the typewriter on which Leo
pold admitted he composed the ram
som letter.
Everywhere crowds quickly gath
cred. Undeterred by the gaze of the
curious the youths aided in piecing
together the substantiating evidence
which, with their confessions, Mr..
Grove regards as sufficient to gain
the hangman moose.
Thinks He'll Be Saved
Young Leopold, whose father is q
manufacturer and lake shining
magnate, is sure according to Mr..
Grove and newspaper men who heard
the conversation, that money can do
anything and through use of it he
hopes to avoid the gallows.
You know, he said, we have
got lot of dough. l don't know
how many millions. How about fix
ing this thing up by getting to
few jurors p
Mr.. Grove merely smiled in reply.
Loeb, son of the vice president of
Sears Roebuck and Company. is less
sure but hopeful.
Talk to Parents
The young men were permitted
to telephone their parents last night.
Loeb, talking with his mother, as
sured her repeatedly that he had
committed the murder, insisting he
could do and had done such a deed.
Young Leopold assumed a busi-
ness-like conversation. His father
is i'll. His mother is dead.
Send me change Of clothes and
ism IT about time you employed an.
attorney for me?' he was reported
as having said.
Yes, l did it. We have got to
face it and make the best of it,
Mother ILL
Mrs. Franks, mother Of the slain
boy, is reported in ns serious condi-
tion. The lad was cousin once
removed of Loeb and Mrs. Franks
suffered relapse when she was in
formed who had killed her boy. She
had not recovered from the blow of
Roberts death. The police estab-
llshed a zone Of quiet around the
Franks residence.
All day yesterday the streets in
the vicinity Of the Franks, Leopold
and Loeb homes were crowded "
slowly moving motor cars containing
sightseers. Tss7
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