The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
BOY'SSTORY. OF SHAVING. QUESTIONED DarrOw To Seek To Prove
 Use Of Third
 Degree MAY TRY TO BAR
 BOTH CONFESSIONS States Attorney Ready With More Witnesses
 For Jury OTHER INDICTMENTS THOUGHT POSSIBLE Conspiracy To Kidnap And Murder May Be
 Added To Charges
MAY TRY TO BAR
 BOTH CONFESSIONS
OTHER INDICTMENTS THOUGHT POSSIBLE
By H. H. ROBERTSON tBy Leased Wire To The Age Herald. )

tBy Leased Wire To The Ago-herald. )
 CHICAGO, June S.-Grotesque shadows flickered across frosted glass pane on a door, in the office of the state's attorney, while a few feet away in darkened room, Richard Loeb eringed in his chair, watched the gyrat- ing phantoms and with increasing ire. quence called for water.
 Did these figures that re-enacted the staying of 13-year-old Robert Franks by Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., exist only in Loeb's imagination or was there a play of shadows actually taking place, staged by police in the attorney $ office on the morning of May 31, play carefully staged by men of long ex- perience, breaking down defiance by awakening fear?
 On the reality or unreality of those strange phantasms that the night evoked depends the admissability in court of the confessions Loeb and Leo pold made. And for the first time, from source close to both the states attorney and the Loeb and Leopold families there has come a story of what really happened during the hours the two youthful intellectuals sat in dark. ness and reflected on the crime they had committed. If Clarence Darrow, the defending counsel is able to prove that third degree methods were use to elicit the confessions, they probably will moi be admitted as evidence, he points out
 parrow is by no means anxious tc < have the confessions introduced in court. According to one of his as. sistants, he plans two moves; one to have the confessions thrown out i; the other an, insanity plea. However, if he is unable to obtain proof that duress was used on the two youths he will con. fine his fight to save them from the gal laws to an effort to have them declared insane.
 The hectic days that followed the arrest and confessions of Loeb and Leopold have not afforded the states attorney and the police much time to attend to trial preparations and all day Sunday a large staff worked over steno- graphic records of the boys confessions, making notes and looking through law books.
 On Monday the grand jury will re- sume hearing evidence on the Franks case Grove will call more than POO witnesses at the resumption of the in- quiry. They will be persons who were associated in many different capacities with Loeb or Leopold during the last two years.
 Through this phase of the inquiry the states attorney hopes to establish an air-tight case, hanging case against the two rich mems sons. And it is no secret at the states attorneys office that Grove has some hope of obtaining new indictments against the slayers, already indicted for Kidnapping and mur- der. He is considering the advisability of obtaining indictments for conspiracy to kidnap and murder.
 And while the states attorneys staff was busy Sunday strengthening the case on which Grove hopes to send Loeb and Leopold to the gallows, the authorities took action to protect the boys families from cranks.
 Special Guards Set
 Two details of six men each were sent from police headquarters to the homes of Nathan Leopold, ST., and AL bert H. Loeb. So many threatening letters had been received by them that the police decided to guard them against possible attack. ,...
 As an additional precaution a close watch is being kept on all mail and packages delivered at the Leopold and Loeb homes. Loeb admitted Sunday night that he had received letters con- taining a threat that his home would be blown up.
 Typewriter experts were called to the states attorneys office Sunday night
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