The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
get the money after that boy's body had been found,
they would be taking chances of being caught. So
the plan was given up.
And was it an elaborate plan, your Honor? This
drug store was located about two hundred feet from
the Illinois Central depot on 63 rd Street. It wa^
their intention to have Jacob Franks go to this drug
store; they would make their call there; nobody
knew what instructions he would receive; conse-
quently the police could not be waiting or watching
for them. And, after Jacob Franks received that
call, your Honor, he would have had just sufficient
time when he was told to go to that depot, to get
on that train going to Michigan City, its final des-
tination Boston.
And even then, after receiving the instructions as
to what to do in the drug store, he would not know
what the ultimate plan was going to be. He would
have been told, your Honor, had their plans worked
out, to go to the rear car of this train and to go to
this telegraph blank box; and that there he would
find a letter, and to proceed immediately to the rear
platform, to open the letter and read it.
Then what did the letter state? It told Jacob
Franks to turn to the east, and to watch for a large
red brick factory with a black water tower on it,
and the word " Champion " inscribed on the tower;
to have the money ready and as he reached the
south end of the factory described in this letter,
to count five hurriedly, and then throw it.
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