Show DARROWS DARROW'S APPEAL TO JUDGE CAVERLY Arguing on the fide aide of or the do doI I tense In the Chicago murder case Clarence S Darrow Is fa making a strong plea for tor Leopold and Loeb He Is taking a most unusual course In In admitting the sanity of the de d- d- d defendants fondants but pleading for tor mercy and In his bla plea his strongest ap- ap appeal ap appeal peal In our opinion Is to be found In this paragraph Youth la Is a mitigating circum circum- circumstance circumstance circumstance stance We kno know the dream world ut ot ota uta a child chUd its Incapacities and complexes These boy boa bos S are minors The law would prevent their rook mak making makIng ing contracts or m marrying without their parents parent COli consent sent Why Dc- Dc Because Ee auae cause L they are minors and have havo not the full fully matured judgment of ofa ofa a man The Tho reason Its ila use would be mitigating a 1 circumstance would be because of ct a state stale of ef mind I lack k of Judgment lack of discrimination and nothing else 1 I cant can't under- under I bland the glib light hearted care care- careless careless careless less attorneys s who here till talk of hanging two t o young boys bos bo s just as if they were talking of of f a holiday or a to 10 the races I J have neverseen never lIever neverseen seen a more deliberate effort to to turn human beings Into a society of ravening ra wolves than in this wee By a little extension mercy might be made to apply to all ct of- of fenders of tenders It is true the world is a world of new experiences for a boy but rf f at 18 19 or r 19 a boy has baa not pro pro- progressed progressed pro progressed gressed beyond the harboring of murderous Instincts when ben will ho bo bobe hobe bobe be acceptable to society and no longer a menace argument can be made In behalf of oC anyone any one who commits a crime Human lead to wrongdoing The law Inflicts pun pun- pun as os a deterrent In la this case lase the law Is called upon to rid society of debited deb sed boys who In their moral and turpitude are as a pus back sack oozing poison t I Darrow is arguing entirely on the side of ot Judicial softness He hould be required to tell what hat good reason there Is for tor prolonging the stay of er the degenerates on onearth onearth earth What good purpose will be served by having their lives saved To ro bring tiring more morl more ot of o their kind Into or to have children un under under under der their the Influence would be to lower the moral mOl al forces yielding to Darrows Darrow's entreaties would be the establishing e of ot a precedent In the direction of no law no film front to crime no stern justice and that would be the thu beginnIng of the disintegrating of at society Nature e gives a lesson In firm firm- firmness firm ness You Yeu the laws lane of health and there is a tooth toothache ht a headache or a heartache and per per- perel per el slat t and there comes the n ot of death For minor offenses there limit Is le mit mitigation to the extent of ot sIncere earnes earnest t applied reformation For extreme abuse there Is le death In la which direction should the court ourt move Should the boys or humanity as a whole bo be considered when the Question of duty Is to tobe tobe tobe be considered The judge must keep kelp In mind the Influence his bis decision will have on the homo home life of America which hleb Is 18 more vital than the die dIs- dIspOsing dis disposing I posing physically of ot Leopold and Iee Loeb b nn |