The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
structions where to go with the ten thousand dollars.
He told him there would be a Yellow Cab at his
door, and for him to get into the cab and go to
the place named and there await a call.
But Jacob Franks, five minutes prior to that time,
your Honor, had learned his boy was murdered.
He begged for time; he asked the supposed
George Johnson on the other end of the line for a
half hour longer. But Leopold insisted that he go
at once.
They next called a Yellow Cab, and the order
went to the Yellow Cab Company to send a cab to
5052 Ellis Avenue, the home of Jacob Franks, and
that there was a load there waiting for them, and
the cab was sent at once.
After having placed this letter in the box that is
used for blank telegrams, Loeb left the Pullman car,
and when he got out on the street he tore up his
pullman ticket and his railroad ticket which he
had purchased and then he and Leopold started
south. They called the drug store that they had
directed Jacob Franks to go to but Franks was not
there.
After trying to reach Jacob Franks twice in this
drug store, they noticed a newspaper stand, and on
that stand in large headlines appeared the statement
that the boy's body had been found.
Leopold still insisted upon getting the ten thou-
sand dollars; wanted to go on. But Loeb, cool of
judgment, insisted that if they continued to try and
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