Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-22 | Page 5 | Prison Life Softens Rebellious Natures of 'Thrill' Slayers

Prison Life tile Softens Reb Rebellious s Natures Naties of Thrill Slayers i M 5 r ir 5 r t i vH l I 5 I p 1 sr I Five years ago Nathan Leopold and Richard Loe Loeb Chicago thrill I slayers entered enter d Joliet penitentiary where their the rebellious reb natures aures a ures have I been tamed Leopold left and Loeb as they appeared in co court rt I By By WALTER WALTER T. T BROWN v A A. P P. P Fe Feature Service Writer Tho AP Tho old clock JOLIET HI JU AP APr APr- Tho iri lri tho the wardens warden's office has Uck ticked d away sy five years of or tho the lifetime tl that il Nathan and Richard Lo Loeb b b. b must lust pay for tor the tho perfect crime was wasso ns so Imperfect In In May Ma 1924 1 24 the wealthy we colic glate slate youths outstanding students and Clil- Clil and ind scions o of caso cago t families killed y H-y year old Bobby Franks also alo of ot a wealthy tam family 11 1 They rhey naively nal dismissed the trag trag- edy dy ith t the reason that they that the had hax sought a thrill Ori On September 1 12 Leopold and 1 dr dressed In in at it here L Lo Loeb b now now 23 3 iff is a messenger an an errand boy In boy In the the yard yard of of- the old pris prison n. n Leopold 24 24 whets the tho s su su- su Jp J- J p In intelligence that tha I was Ia's as a's ls l's un undoing un- un doing In the library of ot the thene ne new prison Qc islon lly he checks re records of or th tho shoe factory The Th two to toy y o never see each ach other Prison r routine and monotony ha have e blurred the alert Iril Intelligent mien of or the thrill slayers and dulled dulIe the socially rebellious attl tude that lured them to the perfect t crime inte h At first Leopold was sneeringly lIke skeptical U 1 of oC serving his sentence and aid Loeb Loch reb rebellious and violent Now they are axe reconciled d nameless numbers Relatives see sec them von on J visitor day a 3 he heavy y s screen reen separating ep them Rumors of parole effort come up and fade Clarence Darrow Dar arrow ar- ar row the attorney who pleaded s so 80 brilliantly nUy for their lives because of f their youth and mental Illness says the families never will makan mike make ari an effort to free tree them Loeb and Leopold still sun are avid avi scholars and read widely and con con Two accidents marred the per Jer feet crime and revealed th the amazIng amas- amas Ing slay slayers rs to n. n shocked city A A. pede pedestrian found the body of body of BobbY Bobb Franks In a n. culvert ctt In In the 1 lonel lOnely n Jy outskirts of ot Chicago The slayers slayer rs h had d failed to entirely c conceal 1 JL IL Leopolds Leopold's spectacles Jes were dropped at the culvert and they w were re traced to to him I 1 S