CHICAGO SENSATION.
CONFESSION OF BOY MURDERERS
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received June 6. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 5.
It is reported from Chicago that a million dollars 'have been placed at the disposal of Clarence Darrow, chief defence attorney for Nathan Leopold, and Richard Loflb, University students and sons of Chicago millionaires, indicted for murder and kidnapping for ransom of Robert Franks, a school-boy son of another wealthy Chicago citizen. The youths have confessed that the deed was done in order to secure excitement and a ten thousand dollars' ransom for a trip to Europe.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16450, 6 June 1924, Page 5
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