MURDER TRIAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 August 1924, Page 5

MURDER TRIAL.

LOEB AND LEOPOLD. BITTERLY CONDUCTED CASE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, Aug. 28. Advices from Chicago state that Attorney Crowe, in conducting argument in the Leopold and Loeh murder case, furiously denounced the slayers. He urged Mr Justice Caverly to impose the death sentence, saying this was the dirtiest murder in the history of Chicago, and the murderers deserved no more mercy than mad dogs and rattlesnakes. The defence contended that the boys were too young to be put to death, hut if it was right for boys of eighteen to suffer death in the, trenches to pre serve the laws of mankind, why not hang these men of nineteen who violated the laws. The trial throughout was marked by extreme bitterness between opposing counsel. Popular interest recently became violently morbid, when, within forty-eight hours, the crowd twice successfully endeavoured to storm the court room doors. Mr. Clarence Darrow, leader for the defence, sought to establish the so-call-ed mental irresponsibility of the youths to save them from the gallows, hut Mr Crowe fiercely challenged the notion of irresponsibility, declaring . that it was akin to insanity. ’ Mr.. Justice Caverly will pronounce sentence on September 9.