Criminal Justice Matters: Robert Franks' Murder, 1924, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 11, 1924 Winn Parish Enterprise

Loeb, Leopold Go To Pen

Sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of 14 year old Robert Franks
and 99 years' imprisonment for kidnaping the boy were meted out yesterday
to Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, by Judge John R. Caverly.  The
youth of the defendants was all that saved them from the noose.

"It would have been the path of least resistance to impose the extreme penalty
of the law," said the gray-haired judge in his decision.  "In choosing
imprisonment instead of death the court is moved chiefly by the age of the
defendants, boys of eighteen and nineteen years."

(I am not sure if this relates to Winn Parish as the names of the defendants
or the judge are not familiar, however the victim's name is common in Winn
Parish)