THE CHICAGO MURDER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19256, 21 August 1924, Page 7

THE CHICAGO MURDER

TRIAL DRAWS TO A CLOSE. DEATH SENTENCE DEMANDED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEIW YORK, August 19. (Received August 20, at 10.50 p.m.) The trial of Leopold and Loeb at Chicago is drawing to a close. The district attorney demanded sentence of death. The boys lost their air of indifference as tho prosecutor insisted that if they were sufficiently responsible to be sent to prison they were eligible to be hanged. Women again stormed the doors and corridors.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Nathan F. Leopold, jun., 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago,, son of the millionaire owner of the Manitoba Steamship Company, and Richard Loeh, also 19 years old. son fi the millionaire vice-president of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and nephew of Jacob Loeb, former president of the Chicago School Board, recently confessed the deliberately planned murder on May 21 of Robert Franks, the. 14-year-old boy of Jacob Franks, a retired millionaire. The youthful murderers admit that they planned" the deed last November, working out every detail until 'bey thought they had established an airtight alibi, and that there would be no slip in their scheme. Their motive was twofold. Botli arc members of the “intelligentsia” at the University of Chicago, scorning all convention and all laws but their own. The murderers desired to note the reaction of a human being dying under certain conditions. In addition they wanted 10,000 dollars although both have always been liberally supplied with funds. A feature of the trial has been the endeavours of tho defence, by means of export evidence, to establish the insanity, or at any rate the mental irresponsibility of the youths.