The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-02
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limit to get justice for the murder
Of my SON" He will engage several
attorneys to aid States Attorney
Robert e. Grove and the States
stan. His entire wealth may be
pitted against that Of the Leopold
and Loeb families.
I While parents of the TIVE youthful
slayers were rapidly taking steps to
establish a defense-probably to be
based on a plea Of insanity-Leopold
and Loebb seemed anxious to prove
that they deliberately killed Franks
just for the fun Of it."
The coroner's inquest, started be-
fore the confessed slayers were APP
pretended, was 70 be continued to-
day.
States Attorney Grove an
nounced the plea of insanity would
be contested bitterly.
1T viii be a case Of millions
versus the death penalty" Grove
said, but these boys killed an in
nocent child just for the spirit Of
adventure and they must suffer
| the consequences. Every effort
viii be made by my office to have
them hanged"
Calls Loeb a Weakling
! Both 4 bit remorseful for the crime
they committed, Leopold and Loeb
held stoutly to their original con-
| fession. They insisted that the muir
der was premeditated - planned
many months before 1t was carried
into execution.
Leopold's remorse, however, as
indicated in an interview. was chiefly
for the fact that he had allowed
Loeb to participate. Although cred
iting his companion with plotting the
murder and accusing Loeb of doing
the actual killing, leopold said he
could have carried 1t out alone and
never been found out.
"Dick Loeb is a weakling," Leo
pold said. IF I had known he was
going to be weak, I'd have pulled the
job alone. 1 would have been free
now.
But what could I do? I couldn't
keep up the denials after the weak
ling confessed everything"
Expects to Be Freed
Loeb was more truly sorry for the
crime in which he had taken part.
Nervously smoking cigarette after
! cigarette, shuffling his hands from
pocket tO-pOcket. he told Of his hope
for ultimate freedom and career"
This thing will be the making of
me" he said. 'Tll spend a few years
in Jail and then be released. I'll
come out to a new life. I'll go to
work. work hard. and come to sue
cess-have a career.
Whats hurting me most right
now is the fact my mother won't be-
lieve me. She telieves that I've COM
tmitted murder A,>mother's faith
and I've lost it,
Distantly Related to Franks
The boy who at II received a de-
gree of bachelor Of arts from the
University of Michigan-the young
est graduate of that institution-told
of his memory of the smiling Robert
Franks, whose life he snuffed out
''in the spirit Of adventure"
Loeb is distantly related to the
Franks boy He had frequently
played tennis with him. Their homes
were nearly across the street.
THE only thing that comes to my
mind now is the picture of that hap
Ply little boy, swinging down the
sidewalk, swaying from side to side
in his happiness-his innocence.
"Ill never forget the expression
on his face as we dragged him into
the carr Oh, that face. the sunlight
of the happiness in his eyes,"
Parents Collapse
Albert Loeb. the father was in a
state of collapse today. The boys
mother was in only slightly better