STUDENT MURDERERS
LIFE SENTENCES BEGUN.
AN UNEXPECTED “THRILL.”
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. If Leopold and Loeb, Who arrived at the Illinois State penitentiary in Joliet to-night, tp begin serving their life sentences, did not secure the thrill they desired'when they killd the youth Franks, they received . it. tonight, while being conveyed to prison. The automobile in which they were travelling swerved abruptly, and then took a dive into some unballasted tracks of electric railway. It righted itself and bounced fifty yards down the track before it stopped. The boys w'ere unhurt, though badly jarred. When lie entered the prison, Loeb remarked, “This is not such a bad place.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1924, Page 5
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