The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
taken from the house, and with the boots, robe, tape,
automatic pistols, he left his home, to look for the
victim.
And then Loeb and Leopold drove to the Harvard
School. Loeb left the car and went into the yard^
where he was well known by all the little boys in
the neighborhood, and there he spoke to the tutor
of Johnnie Levinson, that sweet, beautiful little boy
who testified before your Honor, and who told you
in all his innocence, that he talked to Loeb on that
day, and God knows, when he was on this stand,
he did not realize that he might have been the vic-
tim 01 this cruel, cold-blooded murder.
And after talking to Johnnie Levinson, he entered
the car, where Leopold was waiting for him, and
then fearing that they might become observed in
that vicinity and, one of the boys disappearing, that
some one might suspect them, they decided to re-
turn to the Leopold home and get a pair of field
glasses so they might observe their intended victim,
and watch his movements, and at the same time
not be observed themselves.
After getting the field glasses at the Leopold home
they returned to the Harvard School and from some
distance they watched the little boys in that yard at
play, and they watched in particular Johnnie Levin-
son. And all at once the game broke up, and think-
ing that the boys who were running down the alley,
still playing, were going to return again, they still
remained. And after waiting there a little while,
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