Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-12 | Page 4 | Trying to Save the Murders

TRYING TO SAVE THE MURDERERS the th plea of ot Insanity an elaborate defense defens ii lu being worked out toi fOl Nathan athan Leopold and RIch RIcherd Richerd Richerd erd Loeb the tb confessed kidnapers and sla sl ers er of o U 13 year old Robert s of ot Chicago The Th most gifted gift lift ed d lawyers lawyer are ro being employed tosa to sa sae av e the murder B There should be a well defined me Ine di awn as to the type of o In InI I which may save IT an n offend offend tr u cr from rom the th gallows allows No o doubt the two boy boys buya are arc abnormal They do ot think as do the ordinary oung tello a o ot of their age They are arc de- de developed de developed along alone dangerous lines Jnes Given educational tests teats te t they are I ai as i brilliant hu but t In la morals morale they are classed by a number of criminologists as perverts pervert The ure ir more mor dangerous to than low lowbrow brow criminal and If It laws on on murder are made to protect so the young murderers murderer should houlb be executed Undoubtedly Leopold Leopol l and Loch Lorb ero not mentally Incompetent They knew kne the degree degre of ot their of offending tending fending They Thoy may have hav failed to get the sensitive e reaction to their I devilish planning which an ordinary ordinary nary bov boy would hav ave felt but the thO were fully conscious of ot the fact I they were taking the life ot of o an another another other I Their kind should not be reproduced and one way to prevent re reproduction reproduction reproduction I production Is i to rid the earth 0 of debased youngsters o ot of their kind It would sen sere ene e as a deterrent to let the world know that ions eons ot wealthy parents parent cannot bera ba la law 1 unto themselves I O on