AMAZING CRIME
EOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY MURDERED.
i TWO MILLIONAIRES’ SONS I ARRESTED.
j LAD KIDNAPPED AND FATHER i REFUSES TO PAY RANSOM.
LAD’S BODY FOUND MUTILATED
united Press Association- -Copyriaht. NEW YORK, May 31. A telegram from Chicago says an amazing crime mystery, after a duration of a week, had an extraordinary denouement to-day, when the State’s Attorney (Mr. Crowe) announced that Nathan Leopold, junior, aged 15, and Richard Loeb, aged 18, Sons of millionaire merchants here, and University students, had confessed to kidnapping and murdering Robert Franks, the fourteou-year-old son of a wealthy and socially prominent business man.
The details revealed show unusual criminal planning and desperate fearlessness, they sending wreaths to the funeral, and oven threatening to kill Franks’ sister.
Leopold and Loeb six months ago decided on an adventure to dissipate ennui. They concocted a kidnapping scheme. “Wo always had plenty of money,” they said, “but thought a lifctlo sum of ten thousand dollars might bo useful.” A week ago they picked upon Franks, who was a Student at an exclusive sclioool. They drove up in an automobile and invited him to have a ride. Franks’ father then received a note asking for the money. The father enlisted police aid. hub next morning his body 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. This proved his undoing.—A. and N.Z.O.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9721, 3 June 1924, Page 5
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240AMAZING CRIME Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9721, 3 June 1924, Page 5
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