MAKES HANGING UNFAIR.
ESCAPE OF tOEB AND LEOPOLD CHICAGO. September 14. Four limousines, containing dozens of heavily armed detectives, transferred Nathan Leopold an* Richard Loeb the youths sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the schoolboy, Robert Franks, to the Joliet Penitentiary. By dispatching a series of "fake motors the official! so confused the hostile crowd outside the gaol that there .was no demonstration. The "Chicago Tribune' says: If the punishment of Leopold and Loeb meets with the approval of the people of this State, that indicates that the retention of punishment by death in any cases in Illinois is wrong. We do not see how the conscience of the State would permit any person to be sentenced to the gallows hereafter, if the public approves of the measure of punishment in tins case."
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 228, 25 September 1924, Page 5
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135MAKES HANGING UNFAIR. Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 228, 25 September 1924, Page 5
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