The Archive · 1924

Life Imprisonment

Chicago, Sept. 10.

The sensational trial conclude: here tonday in which Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, students of the Chicago Univers! and sons of two Chicago. millie aries, were accused of kidnapping the L-year old Robert Franke, son of a well-known Chicago business man, from whom the aecuced were alleged demanded $10,000 ransom.

ud Leopnld confessed to the Each alleged that the other ick the blow which ki The crime had appare! keen carefully planned.

The defence pleaded for imprisonment rather than death on the ground that the accused were sutoring fern "meatal sickness"

The case aroused the greatest ex: Chicaye police had measures the accused been freely made, and many persons connected with the case had received anonymous letters from the Klux Klan and her secret societies.

Later.

Richard Loch and Nathan Leopold have con nenteneed (0 Impson

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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