The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-22
LOEB, LEOPOLD
STILL KILLERS,
EXPERTS CLAIM
Release of Thrill SIayerS
Would Invite Another Hor-
ribIe Crime, Is Belief.
BY EVERETT HOLES,
United Press Stah Correspondent

United Press stan Correspondent.
CHICAGO. May %. = This elev-
enth anniversary of the thrill muir
der" of curly-headed Bobby Franks
finds alienists agreed that Nathan
Leopold and Richard Loeb never
can be released from prison with
out danger of another horrible
crime
/ During the trial these alienists,
trading in terms that bewildered
! the crammed courtroom, bartered
! dozens of theories to explain what
madness in the minds of two bril-
j liant scholars from homes of re-
spectacle wealth drove them to such
/ a horrible crime.
/ All of these theories, pitched as
! they were against a backdrop of
sordidness, pictured Leopold as the
dominating personality = Leopold
the introvert; Loeb, the extrovert.
Length of Term Disputed
LAWYERS who figured in the
/ crime of the century in dis
pute as to how long the youths
sentences of "99 years and life
really must run.
Clarence barrow, who saved them
from the gallows and collected near
Nv 100000 for it, says they'll be out
of prison in nine years. Others claim
they must serve until 1857.
The psychiatrists who remember
Leopold and Loeb as dreamy-eyed
boys of 10 facing death say they
never can fit into the standards OF
society
DR.. H. s. Hubert, who testified
in their behalf. warned that if they
were paroled from prison they prob
ably would go insane soon.
Minds Free From Stress
"Their fragile minds are COM
paratively free from stress where
they are" he said. They are not
thwarted, save for denial OF lib
erty. Even so, they may go insane
in prison.
DR.. H. Dougles Singer, state alien
list and an expert witness for the
prosecution, thinks Loeb might never
have become involved in crime if he
had not come under Leopold'S influ-
ence.
Those boys never could be re-
turned safey to society he said
Furthermore. their families told me
they wanted them to say in prison"
DR.. James Whitney Hall, chief OF
the defense battery OF alienists, said
that the pair were fundamentally
criminal and psychopathic personal
tiles which no kind of Imprisonment
or treatment can cure"
Hope for Freedom Gone
"They would not hesitate to MUIR
der members of their own families. "
he said gravely. 1T was a mere &C
cident IL years ago that they got
the Franks boy"
At one time, he revealed. Loeb and
Leopold contemplated kidnapping
their own parents.
In the old, graystone prison at
Statewide, where Loeb and Leopold
spend their leisure conducting a
correspondence school for other
prisoners they apparently have put
aside all hopes of freedom.
If they have renorse it is only for
their failure to live up to the creed
of which they often boosted:
1.-The only sin in this world is in
being found out"
Leopold Most UnruIy
A few months ago Loeb and Leo
pold. housed in the same cell block,
ended a feud that existed among
them from the day they were
dressed in" in baggy gray.
The ill-feeling grew out of their
insistence during the trial that the
other was responsible for the actual
death blow on the head Of 14-year-
old Bobby.
The alienists think Leopold was
the actual killer; they've never been
sure.
Leopold, more unruly Of the two,
has been in solitary confinement a
dozen times. Usually it was because
he talked back to his guards or re-
fused to take orders.