CRIME BY YOUTHS.
LEOPOLD AND LOEB
NO MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION- -COVTBTOHT NEW YORK, Sept. 10.
At Chicago, Mr. Justice Caverley imposed sentences of life imprisonment on Nathan Leopold, junior, aged 15 years, and Richard Loeb, aged 18 years, university students and sons of millionaire merchants, for the murder of Robert Franks, aged 14, tlie son of a wealthy and socially prominent business man. He imposed additional sentences of ninety-nine years each on a charge of kidnapping Franks, a charge to which the prisoners pleaded guilty. . _ Mr. Justice Caverley discredited the widespread reports concerning the mutilation of the victim, ' adding: “The court, however, cannot find mitigating circumstances. It is moved chiefly by consideration of the age of the defendants. Life imprisonment may not strike the public imagination as forcibly as death, but the prolonged suffering of. years of confinement may a veil be a more severe form of punishment.”
Mr. Justice Caverley, in conclusion, specifically advised against admitting the defendants to parole in future, saying : “If parole is denied the punishment will satisfy the ends of justice and safeguard the. interests of society.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 5
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