Show x w 4 Q Q LO BS B'S MOTIVE IN FRANKS REVEALED Intense Excitement Much Money Given As Crime Objectives I First Denials and Then Confessions of Loeb I and Leopold Are Read Some Statements Unfit For Publication CHICAGO July By 29 29 By The A A P A P A great deal of excitement and quite a sum of money was the motive for the a arid and d murder of young Robert Franks according to the confession of the crime by Richard Loeb made May 30 and read today into the rec record rd of the hearing which is to determine what penalty he and Nathan Leopold Jr are to pay for the crime It was the first definite statement on this point I that had come into the record from Loeb I The youthful defendants sat stol stol- stolIdly stolIdly stol stolidly idly throughout the reading of this and Leopold s a confession but rot at times they exchanged friendly nods and smiles This attitude was no- no no noticeable e oven esen en when the record made by the states state's attorneys ate ste- stenographers ste stenographers showed each accusing the tho other as the actual slayer of othe the boy were read Loeb Loch according to evidence read n court thi hi afternoon accused I Leopold of o killing Robert Kobert 1 Franks when the tn two tuo 0 were ere brought faco to l co aco b by after each had bad confessed the of Decoration day This morning the d showed sho ed Leopold as ln Loeb and the latter reading I had him calling Loeb 3 s version a alie lie when It was made at the joint I Loebs Loeb's own confession read a bit later In the Leopold as os the slayer ascribing to Nathan the same action that latter had given as the method uS used d b by Loeb OICE 4 OICE Leopold and Loeb Loch today heal real read In open court first their dc- dc de denials nials and then their confessions of the crime I Benjamin Bachrach one of the tho attorneys for tor or the boy boys helped get gel Into the record this final stage of the states state's presentation of evidence I by relieving Robert 13 IJ Crowe state s attorney of ot the task of rending the prosecutions prosecution's transcription transcription tion Uon of the boys boy's admissions Mr Cro e olce olce was worn but after i 30 minutes of reading Mr Bach Bach- Bachrach Bach rach rach said he be was ws getting n a a little I hoarse The state states s a attorney how ver declined to take up the ocal burden at that time Ume The boys boya listened with little of expression until Mt MI reached a It passage passage In which Leopold quoted a It profane made to his brother I when ehen hen he learned that hi his spectacles had been found near the culvert In which he and Loeb had hidden the body of the Franks boy this came out In Mr Bachrach s clear olce oice both defendants grin grin- grinned grin grinned ned MORE MOHE S SMILES They smiled again when the ae- ae account ac account count I cached ached a colloquy between n Leopold and Mr Cro Crowe 0 In hicls the latter quizzed the students ozi on ozithe the distinction between gramma and rhetoric Leopolds Leopold's answers here according to the record ere worth an A A In a 11 class room Other points that amused the defendants Included s 8 hope he be was as an expert export automo automo- automobile automobile bile driver and his a as to whether gin was his hia favorite hey bev bev- bev beverage beverage Clarence Darrow chief counsel tot fOI the defense sat with the boy boys and talked with them from timeto time timeto timeto to tUne time Prospects of lack of dramatics In today s proceedings did not dis discourage courage spectators They came camo early and so many In excess of o tb tbs tb's usual quota filtered Into the room that Judge Caverly halted the cas case while the superfluous persons were weN weeded needed out of tho audience At one point In iii the reading Leo Io Leopold o- o poid s Ideas on religion were fort orl-ed orl ed Cd Into the record There Is h no God he was quoted quoted quoted ed as saying I 1 do not believe In Ina ina Ina a future life when hen I 1 die I 1 die dl all allover allover allover over Of course that Is only an opinion d end And d It can be demonstrated only by dying Leopold was as busy talking to narrow Darrow when hen this occurred and ap- ap apparently ap apparently did not hear It Loob Loeb ho however ever leaned forward to catch It then turned to his hla companIon s a conference with the tho attorney I IN DA DANGER G R The names of three other lads consIdered as a possible victims were brought out out Ciar out Clar Clarence lar- lar laren ence enco en co l and Johnny Levin Lovin- Levinson son Levin son and Irving Hartmann The reading described the tho plan planor for tor renting an on automobile of the tho same make nake as a a that of o the automo automo- automobile automobile automobile bile owned by Leopold Involving registering at a hotel establishing a bank account and being Identified tied fled under the name Morton D t Ballard of Peoria Ill which was used at times time by both box bos After Arter disposing of Bobbys Bobby's bodY Leopold Wa was wae quoted as having sail nil that Richard and he took he-took took the rent rent- rented rent rented ed ci automobile to his hi garage guage to re- re remove remove re remove move the blood stains being In- In Interrupted Interrupted In Interrupted by Sven Englund tho family chauffeur Englund was w Oa raso Fego r o 1 Two To o 8 I I |