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Show LDEB AND LEOPOLD : GET L1FESENTENGE DECISION IS MADE AFTER HEAR. ING DRAGS FOR EIGHT WEEKS Judge Agrees With Defense That the Youthful Slayers Were Actuated to Killing by Childish Fantasies Chicago. Life imprisonment was the punishment fixed by Judge John R. Caverly upon Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, confessed kidnapers kidnap-ers and murders of 14-year-old Robert Rob-ert Franks. This was a complete victory for the defense. Youth was the controlling factor in Judge Caverly's decision. He said no minor had ever been sentenced to death in Illinois on a plea of guilty. Not a muscle moved on Leopold's face as Judge Caverly indicated life imprisonment was to be his fate. Loeb rapidly blinked his eye lids, gulped almost unnotieeably and slightly contracted his lips. Not a portion of their bodies moved. Chicago. Following is a chronology chronol-ogy of the Franks murder case : May 21, Robert Franks, 14-year-old student in a private school and son of Jacob Franks, millionaire president presi-dent of a watch company, disappeared. disappear-ed. May 22, the body of the Franks boy was found under a railroad culvert cul-vert on the soutehrn limits of Chicago. Chi-cago. The body was nude and bore marks of blows on the head and strangulation. May 23, Nathan Leopold, Jr., son of a wealthy paper box manufacturer, manufactur-er, whose home was only a few blocks from the Franks residence, was questioned by the police because of his frequent trips to the place where the body was found. He explained that his interest in the locality was based upon its bird life, of which subject sub-ject he was a recognized expert, and he was released. May 20, Leoiold and Richard I.oeh, son of the vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., were am-sted. a p;iir of spectacles found nir the body of young Franks haveing been Identified Identi-fied as Leopold's. May 31, Leopold and Loeb startled the country by confessing the crime In all its details checking up and sTorrectins each other's accounts. June 0. the grand Jury of Cook Smaty Indicted the two on charges of murder and kidnapping for ransom, ran-som, both offenses being piinishiible by death in Illinois. June 11, they appeared before John It. Caverly chief Justice 0f the erirn lnul court of Cool; county plead.-! guilty find were held without bail for trial August 4. July 21. the pleas were i-Iian-e.l to "guilty" and the court ron-.-nt.'d to hear evidence as to the nature of the crim rf motehth . .. thn, . . e l.gl.H-aV m crime from the state t'-stlrmny in mitigation of punishment offered by the defense. July the formal hearing start". 1 before Judge Cnveriy. Aug. 2-S Hearing concluded and case taken under advisement. |