BOY MURDERERS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18089, 3 June 1924, Page 9

BOY MURDERERS.

HEIRS TO MILLIONS. SENSATION IN CHICAGO. (ST CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COtTMaBT.) (ATJSTBALIAN AND V,Zr iCABIiB ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, May 31. A telegram from Chicago says that an amazing, crime the duration of a week, had< an-extraordin-ary denouement to-day, when the State Attorney (Mr. Crowe) announced that Nathan Leopold, jun., aged 16, and, Eichard Loeb, aged 18, at University student, and sons of millionaire merchants in Chicago, confessed to kid* napping and murdering Robert Frank, the 14-year-old son of a wealthy and socially prominent business man. The details revealed show unusual criminal planning and the desperate fearlessness «£ the youths,, who have been sending wreaths to the victint's funeral, aris even threatening to kill Frank's sister. Leopold and Loeb six months ago decided on an adventure to dissipate ennui, and concocted a kidnapping , scheme. " *• "We always had plenty of money," they said, "but thought th 3 little sum. of 10,000 dollars might be useful." A week ago they picked uppn Frank/ who. was a student ,at an exclusive school. They drove up in ai automobile, and invited him to "have a tide. ■" • Frank's father then received a n6to asking for the money. The father en* Iteted police aid, but the next morning; the boy was found dead and mutilated. Few crimes have aroused such anger throughout the country. Leopold had lost his spectacles while leaving the body in an isolated spot, and this proved his undoing.