Show I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 1 I I i DARRO DARR W H HOLDS LO MOTIVE ABSENT IN fRANKS CASE Defense Disputes State Alienists' Alienists Theory Says Boys' Boys Acts Vague Mind Wanderings of Children CHICAGO Aug 23 By A. A P. P P.- P. Clarence S. S Darrow Darros started the second sec eec ond day ot of his plea for tor Rl Richard hard hardI Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr be before before before be- be fore as large but a far tar more ordeny orderly or- or deny derly audience as yesterday Complete Complete Complete Com Com- police control from the outer doors of ot the bun building dIng to the last door of the tho courtroom itself prevented prevented pre pre- I vented repetition of he riotous ac actions actions ac- ac act t of the disappointed which marked t the e s rt of Mr rr Darrows Darrow's I appeal I. f I Judge John R. R Caverly came early to take charge of the situation but found corridors and h halls cleared and a all aU seats filled tilled with contented court fans fins The pronouncement of no no more mor seats went out outa a half- half hour before the opening of ot court Mr Darrow said he could not finIsh finish finish fin fin- ish his plea in the short session to to to- da day S REVISES NOTES I r started with eight pages of or notes he said I r had bad five left last night threw s some me of those away but supplemented th them m with more more and find I have just as many manyI now as I had at the beg beginning nning Leopold and Loeb camo came Into court wearing their customary morning smile In greeting to their attorneys and relatives Each grasped Mr I Darrows Darrows' arm arm as he passed and I II squeezed it it There Thereas was as no visible I I ble trace of ot the emotional storms which the attorneys attorney's eloquence provoked pro pro- yoked voiced In them yesterday Mr MI Darrow Darrow Darrow Dar Dar- 1310 1 row spoke confidentially to the judge and then to States State's Attorney I Robert E. E Crowe and the three nodded in agreement i iThen IThen Then tho the veteran attorney started I I Ill ll ir throwing his shoulders back r wiping his browand brow again polishIng polishing polish polish- pOlish pOlish-I ing his glasses He began I lOr 1 want to call can the attention of ot this court to some of ot the oth other r acts I of ot these two boys in this terrible and weird homicide homicide to to show abow conclusively con con- con I elusively that there ere c could uld be no noot ot other er r 1 reason ason than tha a a dl diseased eased mind I theIr r I their conduct S J M MENTAL WAN WANDERINGS They were not not moved d by hatred I not moved by y spite not noyed b by bythe bythe the need for fr mone money The They were 1 moved only by the vague mental I w wanderings of children Preparing for tor the crime the ther r boys w went nt over to the Harvard sch school ch QI ol In daylight ht known mown by i i everyone said Mr Darrow Loebs I little brother brothel was was there You Yo- honor has listened to to- many cases cases' Has Hasit Hasi i it been in your our experience nce or in lh I that of other law lawyers ers such a case as this There never has It all allis allis I I is only a question of of disordered I mind and the fact that these boy boys boys' parents have money I Th They y pick up this boy carry him around Of course it is a a. ahard ahard hard story one that shocks a. shocks a boy bent on killing no not knowing where he was going or whom he was going going- to to- get but trailing a n. littleboy littleboy little boy and the circumstances are opportune so o d it falls fails to get him As I think of that story of Dickie I I trailing this little boy around ther there comes to me the picture of Dr Krohn for sixteen years going in J Continued on page 5 I DARROW HOLDS I MOTIVE ABSENT I IN FRANKS CASE Continued from page 1 3 II and q t of buildings trailing g vie vie- I tams tims without any regard for tor sex age families or surroundings But Buthe Buthe he ho had a motive It was cash as asI asI I r shall show further DESCRIBES CONTACT One was the mad act of a child chUd the other a deliberate act of a aman aman aman man spilling blood They see the Jr Franks anks boy on the street Dick and Nathan call cal to him to get Into the car Five o'clock In the afternoon on on a thickly settled street the houses of or their friends friend and companions known to everyone In the neigh neigh- neigh neigh- There were automobiles on the street They took him Into the th car for car for nothing Is It a question of revenge or hate when no one Cine cures clues for his own fate Was It without any motive or any reason that the they picked this boy up near their own i home surrounded by their own neighbors f fl l They rhey drive on popular streets II I I I I j i I j 1 I I I II I I where everybody might see and nd where they were known by every every- one They Whey hit him over the head with a chisel and go on about their business driving this car within half hIt a block of ot Loebs Loeb's home within with with- In the same distance of ot Franks' Franks home past every neighbor the they knew Still sun men will say they have haye havea hayea a craving for tor that and Dr Krohn says it was a sane sane act of a sane manI manI man I say again that this act cannot cannot cannot can can- not be explained by any other thing than a diseased manThey man They bring the boy back In hack in fact tact they pull him over Into the back seat gag him and soon the car starts on Its way CHOOSE STRANGE ROUTE If It ever a death vehicle went lover over the same route or the same lame kind of ot a route driven by sane people I have never heard of 01 It it and I fancy no one else ever heard of ot It This car was driven for tor thirty miles mUes first down streets as thickly populated and traveled as any In Inthe Inthe inthe the city They took the regular path out of the city to the south with Leopold driving Loeb In the back seat with the dead body be beneath beneath beneath be- be neath him Anything could have happened to bring their arrest or apprehension Thousands of ot eyes saw them For what did they do this Nothing The mad act of ot King Lear Is the only thing I know to compare it with And yet doctors declare leclare It a a. sane eane act They know better Then for three miles mUes they go goI I along a street solid with business automobiles a backed up streetcars on the tracks One boy driving another In the rear seat with little Bobby Franks whose blood was then co covering co lin everything C in the car |