The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
contemplated escape from jail, but he does not
want to do this for it would distress his family to
have him disappear and to be known either as a
criminal or an insane person. Before he decides to
escape he wanted to discuss this with his older
brother Allen. He thinks" — and this is his phi-
losophy, and I don't know but what it was quite a
coincidence that one of the books he took to the
Morrison Hotel was the " Influence of Wealth on
Imperial Rome," but it is his philosophy here, your
Honor — "He thinks an escape could be managed
by spending a few thousand dollars by bribing the
guards of the jail and by some one giving him a
gun. He says that, without any swagger, as though
it were only a matter of careful detailed planning
which his mind can do. He has not made plans as
to where he should go should he escape." Then the
doctors add: ''It must be borne in mind that
Tommy O'Connor, one of the most desperate and
one of the most intelligent criminals Chicago has
ever known, did a most successful jail delivery from
this jail within the last few years."
What a feeling of comfort and security mothers
and fathers of this town would have, with their
children going back and forth upon the streets of
Chicago to school, and these two mad dogs at
large.
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127: " He often discussed morals with his associate,
who insisted to him that the only wrong he, the
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