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Show CLASH IS NEAR MR CASE DEFENSE HOPES TO HAVE COM. MISSION FIND LEOPOLD AND LOEB NSANE Trial Is Set For Opening July Twenty. First When Legal Talent of Nation Will Clash Wits Chicago. Firs't clash between the state and the costly array of legal and medical talent employed by the parents of Nathan Leopold Jr., and Richard Loeb, murderers of Robert Franks will come next Monday, July 21, and both sides are feverishly working to be in preparation for the fray. The defense hopes to get the murderers mur-derers before a commission to test their santity and, if this commission can be convinced the slayers are insane, in-sane, the murderers will dodge trial for their crime and be committed to some institution. The defense admits the youths committed the murder and the entire fight will be an effort to have them shown of unsound mind and therefore not responsible. Chief Justice Caverly is overwhelmed over-whelmed with requests for seats at the trial, if the case actually comes to trial.. Numerous judges, criminologists, crimin-ologists, fiction writers, heads of detective de-tective agencies and newspapers have asked reservations. In addition, there are requests from motion picture scenario writers? and special representatives repre-sentatives of magazines in this country coun-try and Europe and as far away as Australia. Special bailiffs will be assigned to handle the great crowds and avert a repetition of the incident of several sev-eral weeks ago, when doors' of the court room were crashed down by those desirious of seeing the murderers. mur-derers. Leopold and Loeb lounged in their cells, patiently awaiting their next appearance before the public and apparently assured that they will escape es-cape punishment for their crime. They expect the trial and the attention atten-tion they will receive to furnish another an-other "thrill" such as their peculiar natures require, but their parents and attorneys hope to avert a trial on the murder charge. |