Show CHICAGO MAYOR ASSISTS GRANT BRANT ASKS CITY COUNCIL TO URGE GOVERNOR SMA SMAIL L TO INTERVENE Offers Offer Resolution In Body flody Indorsing g M Mercy rcy Appeal In Behalf Dehal 0 of Bernard Grant Chicago Thousands Thousands of persons person from all walks of life are signing the pardon petition for Bern Bernard rd Grant Gran years 19 ol 01 old under sentence of death In In connection with a murder Attorney ncy ney Thomas E. E Swanson in charge of the fight to secure mercy for the poverty stricken boy announced Swanson has formally invited Invited- Clarence Clar Char ence Darrow who saved Leopold and Loeb from the gallows for their murder murder mur mur- der o of ot Bobbie Franks t to to- assist a in saving Grant Darrow announced he would take a hand in the fight on his return from his vacation at the Loeb summer lummer home at Charlevoix Mich A A. telegram sent lent b by Swanson to Darrow follows Your telephone Grant case was received at my office during the Loeb Leopold-Loeb trial I considered considered con you too much occupied ther then for a conference Dispatches quote you 8 d saying you would be glad to assist in the Grant case but that yo you services lervic s had not been requested There is a standing request for your great aid in every case where oppressed oppressed oppressed op op- op- op pressed humanity cries out because of injustice I welcome your assistance assist assist- ance once in this case in beh behalf lf of justice justice jus jus- jus tice and humanity and shall withhold mailing the petition to the governor until I hear bear from you you Mayor Dever of Chicago has sent rent senta renta a pardon re resolution lution to the council asking that it be adopted and sent rent to Governor Small |