The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
they. Always that concern about their own precious
hides.
And one reason why he did not kill Leopold was
because he knew of no safe way of doing it and he
might have been suspected. Well, it might have
been a good thing if he could have planned a safe
way to kill Leopold as he did to kill Bobby Franks
and then have stopped there, or he might have carried
it a little further and committed suicide. The
community might have been grieved but I do not
think it would have lasted long.
" In connection with this he had often contemplated
murdering his associate and securing a new
pal."
Somebody who would have nothing on him.
" He states that he had often contemplated hitting
his associate over the head with a pistol, later shoot-
ing him, breaking the crystal of his watch, robbing
him, leaving things in a way to create the effect
that his associate had been robbed but there had
been a struggle and he had been killed during the
struggle."
Money, and his opinion of the power of money.
He thought that on account of his millions or his
father's millions he was above the law. He be-
lieved that you cannot hang a million dollars in
Cook County no matter how dastardly the crime.
Well, I disagree with him. I think the law is su-
perior to money.
I direct your Honor's attention to page 126: "He
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