POWER OF MILLIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19033, 10 June 1924, Page 5

POWER OF MILLIONS

AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER. NEW YORK, June 8. In reply to many newspaper innuendoes that their millions will be used to the boys Leopold and Loeb free, fhe fathers of the boys have published a statement declaring that they will not take advantage of riches to det the ends of justice. They add: “We have asked the committee of the Chicago Bar Association to select our counsel, and to fix the fees, which will be those usually paid. Medical experts are also engaged under similar conditions. If the Courts find that our sons are not mentally responsible, we will give an undertaking to place them where they will no longer be a menace to any community. ” Among hundreds of letters received daily at. the gaol where the boys are held, the most notable one was addressed to Leopold and Loeb, and says: “You have no cause for worry; you are in a country where justice is- measured by wealth. With money and a slick attorney you will get away. You are as miserable a pair of cut-throats as ever travelled the Spanish Main. With a bag of gold, expert testimony, . and a spineless American jury, you will make a mockery of justice.”