The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
and entered the Rent-a-Car Company and purchased
a ticket which entitled him to take a car, and mak-
ing a fifty-dollar deposit.
They had lunch at a restaurant located at Cot-
tage Grove near Thirty-fifth, and after having their
lunch, they put the curtains on this rented car that
Leopold had obtained from the Rent-a-Car people.
They then left, Leopold driving his own car and
Loeb driving the rented car.
They drove to the vicinity of Forty-third and
Cottage Grove Avenue, where Loeb left the car,
went into a hardware store and purchased a chisel
and rope; Leopold went to a drug store and there
purchased a bottle of hydrochloric acid.
And prior to that, your Honor, Leopold had gone
to the stationery store, and there purchased en-
velopes and paper for the purpose of writing this
letter; and this letter was carefully prepared in de-
tail, leaving the envelope and letter unaddressed,
they not knowing at that time who their victim
might be.
And with all their paraphernalia, with their chisel
and rope and their letter, they then drove to the
Leopold home. Leopold entered the house and went
into the bathroom, and there obtained from the
medicine cabinet the tape that they were about to
use on this chisel in this cold-blooded murder. And
while he was there he removed the boots that he
knew would be necessary in placing the body of his
intended victim in the culvert. And the robe was
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