The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
associate. Franks was hit on the head several times.
My associate said, ' This is terrible, this is terrible.'
"
I will tell your Honor, if you don't think they
have emotions, of another instance. Some of us
didn't think that Harvey Church had. He told his
story with the air of braggadocio, and he gloated,
apparently, while he was telling the authorities how
tough a fellow he was. But when he was told to
begin his march to the gallows, they carried him
there in a stupor.
And if it is the fate of these two cowardly per-
verts that they must pay the penalty of this crime
upon the gallows, when they realize it, you will
find that they have emotions, and you will find they
have fear, and you will find they will have to be
carried to the gallows.
Cold-blooded? How did they put this poor little
Franks boy into the culvert? There is that little
dead body, naked, and after they shoved it in they
kicked it in. And, according to Loeb, " Unfor-
tunately the body was not kicked far enough into
this hole, because a foot remained protruding, vis-
ible to a passer-by."
That was the only unfortunate thing about this,
that a foot stuck out. The body was found the next
day; and they are sitting before your Honor on a
plea of guilty to this murder.
On page no: "He first stated that he got more
of a kick out of discussing it with his own family;
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