The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
And after going, your Honor, to the various places
until they reached this particular drug store at
1465 East 63rd Street, upon making inquiry in
there, they were informed that on that day of May
22 nd two telephone calls had come to that drug store
inquiring for Jacob Franks, and after sending that
information back to their papers, they started over
to the vicinity of the Franks home.
And one of the newspaper boys turned to Loeb and
asked Loeb if he knew Bobby Franks. He said he
did, that Bobby Franks used to play tennis in his
yard, and said, in reply to a question as to what
kind of a fellow he was, that if one was going to pick
out a boy to kidnap or murder he was just the kind
of a little cocky he would pick.
Just imagine that, your Honor, coming from the
murderer two days after the boy had been murdered.
Does not that show an abandoned and malignant
heart? Then they decided that they had better dis-
pose of the little class pin, and belt, and shoes of
Bobby, so they drove out into Indiana, and hid them
out there. Then they returned.
And while he was talking to Captain Wolff, in
answer to the question whether there were any mem-
bers of his class or any of his friends who wore
glasses, Leopold named his companion George
Lewis. And that night, fearing that by some chance
they might pick him out, he stole the typewriter,
this Underwood portable typewriter, from his house
unnoticed, and placed it in the back of his machine,
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