Loeb and Leopold
Escape the “Chair” LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED. ' MOB IN ANGRY MOOD. y (By Cable—Press Association- -Copyright.] (Received 11, 11.35 a.m.) New York, Sept. 10. Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life imprisonment.—(A. and N.Z.) An overnight cable stated that ’ a chief detective. with two picked rifle squads in motor cairs, is guarding Judge Caverley’s residence in Chicago on the eye of his delivering his sentence in the Loeb and Leopold murder case. A large and demonstrative crowd assembled in the street. The police and the judge have received many threatening letters, including threats to blow up the courthouse if the two prisoners receive a life sentence only.
Newspapers state that the boys are making the most of the notoriety the case has aroused and appear in the highest spirits. Leopold, replying to interviewers with reference to this, demanded: “How should the author of the greatest crime in the country act on the eve of his sentence?”— (Sydney “Sun” cable.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 5
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