The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

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 he thought might be possible prospects for kidnapping. We decided, however, not to get them.
 Wait For An Hour
 Loeb detailed how they circled around for an hour or more getting glimpses of young Levinson waiting for him to leave the other children. It was during this time that they went to Leopold's house to get field glasses be- cause the children were sometimes too far away for close observation. During one wait Loeb went to a drug store to get the address of the Levin son boys father from a telephone book. Most of the watching was done from the moving cutrained car. Loeb said all this time he was driving. Levinson dis appeared.
 "We proceeded on until we got glimpse of Robert Franks" Loeb con tinued. As we passed him, he was just coming across the street. Leopold got into the back seat. I drove paral- Tel to where Young Franks was, stopped and remaining in my seat opened the front door and called to Franks that I would give him a ride home. He said No he would just as soon walk, but I told him l would like to talk about a tennis racquet, so he got into the car. We proceeded south on Ellis avenue. and just after we turned off Ellis, Leopold reached his arm around under Franks, grabbed his mouth and hit him over the head with the chisel. I believe he hit him several times.
 "He was not entirely unconscious. He was moaning. Leopold carried Franks over the back of the front seat and threw him on the rug in the car. He took one of the rags and gagged him by sticking it down his throat, l
 Loeb described tlsk drive that fol- lowed, always waiting flor it to get dark following roads with. which he was unfamiliar under Leopold's direc- tion. They partly undressed the 13-year old victims body. Once Leopold got out to purchase two "redhots" and two bottles of root beer" Later Leopold alighted again to make phone call which had nothing to do with the Franks case"
 Loeb did not explain this call further. Loeb described final arrival at the culvert where the body was deposited, his story agreeing with Leopold's con- fession already published as to pour ing acid on the face and using the boots while stuffing the body into the [ calvert. Starting home Leopold tele- phoned his folks he would be slight ly delayed.''
 Next at a drug store they obtained the address of Franks father and ad- dressed the ransom letter. Clean Car
 Loeb said they went to his house where they burned Franks clothing in the furnace. Next they tried ito the best of our ability in the dark" to clean the bloodstains from the car. This done, they drove to another drug store where Leopold telephoned Mrs. Franks her son had been kidnapped.
 The next day, wearing his fathers outer garments, Loeb went with Leo pold to the latter's house, where he said, T changed overcoats again, select ing one less conspicuous"
 Then they tried. in Leopold's garage, to wash the bloodstains from the rented car, with soap and water. While doing this Leopold's chauffeur saw them.
 The confession continued with de- tails already published about planting the letter to Mir. Franks on a railroad where they expected him to pick it up and read directions to toss the ransom money from the rear platform. En- tering a railroad station during these maneuvers Loeb said he was wearing glasses in order to disguise myself, also the black hat and overcoat."
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 After they had dispatched a Yellow Cab to pick up Franks father, but be- fore they had notified the father, they saw a newspaper extra about the find ing of an unidentified boys body and knew it was young Franks.
 We debated then what we should do." I wasn't very anxious to go on with the matter, but Leopold persuaded me to go ahead"
 Loeb said that Leopold phoned Franks where to go, but that when the father did not appear at a designated drug store i've realized the body had been identified, and that any further attempt to get the money would only result in failure"
 They returned the rented car and Loeb said nothing else of importance transpired until late the next night when they disposed of Leopold's type writer on which the ransom note was written. He said:
 "We took his (Leopold's) car in which he had placed his portable type writer that we took out of a trunk. It was on the front seat and I took pair of pliers and pried off the keys just the very tip where the impront would show"
 Loeb recited how the key tips were thrown into one Jackson park lagoon and the typewriter into another, and then how they took the bloodstained robe from its hiding place, soaked it with gasoline and burned it, where the police later found the remnants, under the boys guidance.
 That is all I have to tell about the murder of Robert Franks. I want to say that I offer no excuse, but that I am fully convinced that neither the idea nor the act would have occurred to me had it not been for the sugges- tion and stimulus of Leopold. Fur thermOre, don't believe I would have been capable of having killed Franks. This statement is Made of my own volition."
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