MURDER IN SAFETY.
STRANGE POSITION IN * CHICAGO. I MILLIONAIRE CASE SEQUEL. j ; CHICAGO, October 12. ; Judges here cannot hang youthful murderers any more. Xicolas Guido and Tony Damico, aged 20, strangled Jim Burk, a boardinghouse keeper, but ever since Nathan Leopold and Richard , Loeb escaped the death penalty for the • murder of the schoolboy Franks, they ; have felt certain that they would not be i executed. j Their attorney modelled his defence on that of Leopold and Loeb's counsel. ' and said that he only wanted the same treatment for his clients, whom he • admitted were guilty. i The jury gave them 25 years' imprisonj nient.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 251, 22 October 1924, Page 5
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