Show EXTRA GUARDS PlACED OVER LEOPOLD LOEB Sheriff Speeds to Chicago and After Careful Inspection Inspection Inspection tion of Bastile Decides Threats Sent by Crank Start to Joliet to Be Made During Afternoon With Prisoners in Automobile Great Precautions Tak Taker Taken CHICAGO Sept 11 After Attel After 1 night In which a a. new threat to blowup blow blowup up UI the county jail brought Sheriff Peter M. M Hoffman Hottman speeding into Chicago at midnight Richard riIchard Loeb eb and Nathan Leopold Jr u under sentence sea sen tence of life me Imprisonment for tor the the murder and ninety nine years ears forthe forthe for forthe the for br ransom of Robe Robert t Franks 14 3 years ears old today awaited await await- ed their removal to Joliet The year old youths who confessed they killed to get a a. thrill amused themselves es by play play- ing cards pending the start for Jo JoUet Jo- Jo liet hiet which It appeared would not be before 2 or 3 p. p m. m Sheriff Hoffman disclosed the latest test threat a repetition ot of many many- others made by cranks tl the e sheriff said AROUSED BY THREAT It was about 11 30 11 30 p. p m. m when he ha received the anonymous telephone call telling him that the Jail was t to tobe tobe be blown up I L Jumped Int into my car and antt came sixty miles an hour to the Jail arriving arriving ar ar- riving about midnight Just to make sure that had had nothing happened said Sheriff Hoffman Hottman After a thorough thorough thorough thor thor- ough inspection every everythIng thing appear appeared d dall all right and I returned home ar arriving arriving arriving ar- ar riving about 2 a. a m on The sheriff said he expected t to start between 2 2 and 3 p. p m m. with three in the official partY party party par par- ty all guarded by hea heavily ly armed deputies The advance car he said woul would be filled with officers armed with loaded with buckshot FOUR POUR ARMED GUARDS i n n n the le ae Q d car r band and l Ik Leo P l 1 le with hh for four rm d guards Another contingent of guards with buckshot charged h guns would bring up the rear The official 1 papers paper committing the bo boys s 's to prison were completed It was explained but States State's Attorney Attorney ne ney ney- Crowe was not expected at his office with the papers until about 1 p. p m m. m In the meantime the sh sheriff had the guards doubled In the alley at atthe atthe atthe the rear of ot the jan ard A crowd of ot curious persons gathered outside the Dearborn street entrance to the Jail jall but police details details de de' de- de tails kept them moving Chicago Tribune Attacks Verdict v CHICAGO Sept 11 The The Chicago Chica Chica- go Tribune In an editorial tOda today says If It the punishment given ghen trio the murderers Loeb and and Leopold meets the approval of ot the state their approval indicates that the retention retention re reo re- re of punishment by death in any eases cases In this state Is wrong We re do not see how the con- con Continued on Page 7 THREAT MADE II TO DYNAMITE COUNTY JAIL I Continued from Page 1 science clenca of the state tate would permit any person to be sentenced to the they J gallows hereafter if It the public ap 81 approves approves ap- ap proves the measure of punishment 1 in this case I It seems scents to us that the next person person per per- son about whose an Illinois I sheriff knots a rope has a case casei I 1 against agal st the people of ot Illinois which i I eternal j justice stice would uphold I hOld II III |