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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. LEOPOLD-LOEB MURDERS. TRIAL ENDS. NEW YORK. Aug. 28. Ailvie«-s from Chicago slate that Attorney Crowe, conclmling Itis argiim'-nt ill the Leopold and Loch murder cn-e. furiously denounced tin- two slayers, urging .lustice Caverlcy to impose the death sentence and -aving: ’lbis is the dirtiest mtinh r in the history of Chicago and these murderers deserve no more mercy than do mad dogs or rattle snakes.
The defence, said Mr Crowe. had contended that the hoys were too young to he put to death, hut. if it was rig ! -‘ lor b-iys of eighteen years of age to suffer death in the trenches to j,reserve the laws of mankind, tle-n why not hang these men of nineteen years who have violated the laws of mankind?
Tht- trial throughout has hecn marred by extreme bitterness between the opposing counsel. The popular interest tveentlv licenme violently morbid when. within tuity-eight hours, n crowd twice unsuccessfully endeavoured in storm tin- court doors. Clarence Darrow. the lender of the defending counsel in his stimulation.
-ought to establish the so-colled mental irresp'-nsihilitv of the vouths. so as t" save them from th'- gallows, hut 't-torin-.v Crowe fit-r.-'-lv ehnllcni' n d this notion of irrespoijsihilK v declaring that it was akin to ios'itniy.
Jtidg - Caverl-v "ill tirononnee sen teller on >e|)t. Kttli.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1924, Page 3
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