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| Newsgravure Section, THE JEPPERSONIAN, Towson, Md, August 2, 1924. IL/aQfl©KI $ SLEEP, SOLDIER SLEEP. Sleep, soldier, sleep, beneath the flag Your valor has maintained; Yours is an honor little guessed Upon that bygone day ' When with a lightly beating heart Allegiance you proclaimed To every star and every bar, And proudly marched away. The thousands wait in foreign lands, A white cross at each head, And wild blooms are the only flowers These fallen ones may know; But destiny has brought you home To represent each bed Wherein a silent sleeper rests— There where the poppies grow. Man has but one sweet life to live, But one brave death to die, And millions pass the portals through i Whose lives have been no gain; But you are like a privileged son, Accorded honors high, Your nation bows in homage true, And chants your lordly fame. 5 Sleep, soldier, sleep! Your splendid death Holds portent for the years, And men meet men beside your bier With visions in their eyes. What value has life's fleeting breath Beside a nation's fears? Yours is the victory of the great— Inspiring sacrifice? Sleep, soldier, in your narrow bed, Your nation's flag unfurled above; While praise of you is ever sped The world around, in love. ----------o---------- NOT ALL THERE. Elizabeth came to school one day in a state of suppressed excitement. Going straight to the teacher's desk, she exclaimed exultantly, "I've got a new little sister!" "How very nice," replied the teacher. "Yes," said Elizabeth, "but this is only a half-sister." "Why, that doesn't make any difference, does it?" "No, bubt I never can understand where the other half is." ----------o---------- NOT GUILTY. An old negro went to the office of the commissioner of registration in a Missouri town and applied for registration papers. "What is your name?" asked the official. "George Washington," was the reply. "Well, George, are you the man who cut down the cherry tree?" "No, suh, I ain't de man. I ain't done no work for nigh onto a year." 'INTELLECTUAL" MURDER — HISTORY OF CRIME COMMIT-TED BY .MILLIONAIRE8' SONS. "ROY, BRING ME THE SUNDAY PAPERS." He had made his pile and he was anxious for everyone to know it, so when the reporter for the Sunday supplement called around, he showed him gleefully over his brand new mansion, boasting of his Raphaels and his hard-wood floors, his gold-plated plumbing and Gobelins, his light plant and his French furniture. But the pride of his heart was his travelling bathtub. "It's onyx," he said, "a lovely golden shade. It runs by electricity, on tiny pneumatic tires, smooth and silent,. Whenever I don't feel disposed to leave this room it comes in here to me filled, just as I like it, with genuine Atlantic Ocean, brought up from Coney Island and warmed to 80 degrees. It comes in any time I push this button." "Push it now," said the reporter curiously. The button was pushed, the doors slid magically open, and the great onyx bath glided in stately silence into the room. But in it, mouth open and eyes aghast, sat the millionaire's astonished wife! ----------o---------- EXTENTUATING CIRCUMSTANCES. Lady motorist—Oh, Mister Policeman, when I tell you why I speeded, you'll let me go. Officer—Why were you speeding? Lady motorist-*—I was trying to catch up with that lady to see how her 'hat is trimmed. His composure was disconcerting. But his questioners knew one thing that he had overlooked —a very small thing. For four days previous to the night Robert Frank's body was shoved into the culvert there had been almost constant rain. The weather had cleared late on Wednesday afternoon. A pair of glasses lying in the marsh through those four rainy days would have been spotted with mud and wet. Leopold's, when found, were clean and shining. The inquisition continued. Leopold was asked to give an account of his movements on Wednesday. He gave it in convincing fashion. All afternoon he and his ehum, Dick Loeb, had been in Lincoln Park, studying birds. Toward dusk Leopold had taken Loeb for a ride in his automobile. It was a red Willys-Knight, not a gray Marmon, or Winton. They had bought a bottle of gin, picked up two girls they knew, named May and Edna, and gone joy-riding. It was late at night when they got home again. Loet>, uestioned separately, had, told essentially the same story. As an alibi it was perfect. But as a defense it was pathetic, had the culprits realized the police, following their bull-headed custom, would inevitably cneck •back on all these statements. Doing so, they pried out the brick that brought the wall down. Sven Englund, the Leopold family's head chauffeur, told them young Nathan's Willys-Knight had been in the garage all Wednesday for repair of defective brakes. Richard Loeb had been selected as the weaker of the two in will and courage. The news was broken to him fir^t. He collapsed in face of it. But it took a second shot to bring the sturdier Leopold down. Back in February he had taken an examination in equity at the university, writing his answers on his portable typewriter. He took carbon copies, which he gave to several fellow students. These copies had been compared with the $10,000 ransom letter received by Mr. Franks, and experts had pronounced them pro-duts of the same machine. The police took Leopold from the station-house to his home to look for the portable machine. It-was not there. Then they told the young savant something he did not realize. "Do you know," he was asked, "that by examining samples of typewriting, experts can tell what kind of a machine they were printed on and can identify the writing of an individual by the varrying pressure he puts on particular letters and combinations?" This Avas too much for the youth's keenly logical mind. He threw the sponge up, as Loeb had already done. On Saturday, May 31, the tenth day after the abduction, the case reached the peak of melodrama in the separate confessions made by the two youths that they had deliberately murdered the thirteen-year-old boy, and had done it for adventure—just to have the experience. Their victim's identity had been .an accident. It had not mattered to them. For seven months, they said, they had been planning to kill some neighbor's boy and several tentative victims had been successively chosen and footgear might have aroused suspicion. All through the plot the same metriculous precautions had been taken. Though in command of a dozen automobiles between them, the youths had provided themselves with a rented machine of the same make, model and color as Leopold's, first carefully building up an elaborate alibi. On May 1 Leopold had appeared af the renting agency as Morton D. Ballard, a salesman, and established a credit by a reference to Louis Mason" and a telephone for pabulum to (.'.elective literature. They were maWr minds in their own. estimaiion. On the foundation of unusual brilliancy and precocious mo'tal development they had reared a towering structure of egotism. They saw themselves as great personalities, disillusioned to the point where only one live interest was left to them—to stand ??ide and watch themselves react to one stimulus, or another. They had run through a scale of emotions and sought one more. They picked number. When this namber was out murder and extortion, called Loeb, waiting handily by, 0f course> their sophistication had as "Mason" given "Bal- was not reaL an^ more than Li:eir lard" a good character apparent mental keenness. There "Ballard" rented the desired is an ironic and ^rim whimsical >rt Franks lay within Loeb had |ar by talk A chisel, hardware was sub-been the Ithe wounds saturated had corn-had strip-in the car, it for £.ev- Iy hid it in nd on the the city, a Ivhich both the culvert remove ey- irk. They ling in one ^es in anoth- lo bits and the buckle They aphis face to zable. Then pair of rub- the shallow le body into boots were the occasion. Led clean af-Idied leather red Willys-Knight on May 9, returned it in good condition and accordingly, on May 2.1, had no difficulty in getting the same machine. By similar methods they had established other alibis under other assumed names both inside and outside Chicago, registering separately at various hotels and starting accounts at two country banks in ease'they should find themselves in need of money. All this, as they explained, "for fun"—lured by the vision of a great city in . turmoil and themselves aloof on their self-constructed pedestal watching the "little minds" scurry about" like ants in the effort to solve the magnificent riddle of a dead boy hidden in the water of a ditch. Once the body was disposed of they had turned to the exploit of extortion which was part of their adventure. This also was elaborately planned. If yanie-stricken Jacob Franks had not forgotten the address of that obscure drug store, he would have been still further mystified by a telephone message bidding him look in the waste basket. There he would have found a written message bidding him look in a street receptacle for waste, where in turn he Avould have found instructions to board a designated southbound Illinois Central train at a designated station and look in the box holding1 telegraph blanks in the last ear for a sealed note addressed \o him. This note contained explicit directions. As'the train passed the next station south of Sixty-third Street he was to count five rapidly. Looking out he would see a factory chimney w.'fh the word "Champion" painted on it. At the next cross-street he was to throw the bundle of currency as far from the train as he could. The idea was, of course, that the kidnappers would be waiting in the cross-street in v. a automobile at a point rnidway between two stations, and with the train speeding south they coul'l gain a safe distance northward before an effective alarm could be given. When the designated train reached New York its rear ear was searched and the note was found in the telegraph-blank box Loeb had bought a ticket and seat!, secreted it, an;', dropped off. With what might be called the lay public these intricate provisions for assuring the receipt of the ransom money without police interference did more than anything else to stamp Leopold and Loeb as a new and ;.iarming type of super-criminal. As a matter of fact, this was the most hack neyed and common-place portior\ of their plot. The device of hav ing money tossed from a speeding train was employed as long ago a-; 1874 in the Charlie Koss^^-afftf the progressive imputing of instructions througli a chain of messages and missives was used a_ decade or more ago in Cleveland in the Wittier kidnapping The two "master minds" had ru : dry of original ider/, and turned EASY TERMS Eden Electric Clothes | ____I Washer X Lot the Eden wash your clothes. i X It will save you time, work and 3 A expense. «? I The Gas & Electric Co. | X Lexington Bldg. I BALTIMORE, MD. J ity about their present plight, facing the gallows on two separate charges. They plotted filth melodramatic subt Jelly, caught their feet and fell :n the net of practicality like ll also -in our possession. I shal^ push the enemy to the wall. G. B. MeClellan, Major General. It will be remembered that on the 19th of April, 1861, Massachusetts and Rhode Island troops were fired on while passing through Baltimore city. A number were killed and wounded. The Maryland Legislature at its January session passed an Act providing for the relief of the families of the killed and wounded. When the Massachusetts Legislature met it passed the following resolution: Resolve.—In relation to the act passed by the General Assembly of Maryland for the relief of the families of the killed and wounded of Massachusetts at Baltimore, on the 19th of April, 1861. Resolved, That the , Common-stunidest wea^n °^ Massachusetts hereby "The fine Union Congressmen from Maryland, without exception, opposed the emancipation policy recently inaugurated in Congress. They were almost the unanimous choice of the loyal people of Maryland, and the position which they have taken" in regard to the slavery question has fully met the^ expectation of their constituents.'' This issue contains a sentence of a very compassionate and spmpathetic Judge in Texas on John Jones, who had been con victed of murder in the first de gree: hobble-dehoys. They could go through their complicated riga-marole of hiding their victim's body in such wise that even if it were later discovered it would be unrecognizable, and then leave Leopold's glasses lying like a signature to their v. ork of maca-ber art. They could bui-d up their fool-proof alibi by their carefully prearranged possession of a rented car and forget that a single question put to a Swedish chauffeur would undo a1! their precautions. With all their -cunning, they left themselves wide open in a dozen ways which even a bungling professional criminal would have foreseen and guarded against. This 'story of the case, of course, is built up in part upon the reported confession of both Leopold and Loeb. The public .has become suspicious of the pronouncements of learned psychologists engaged by either side in their support of the side which hires them to give expert opinion. Alienists are costly, and the common variety of murderer is rarely able to afford a staff of mental experts to convince a jury he is to be held mentaly irresponsible. Lord Sumner in the London Observer states that "the defense of insanity in a large number of cases is a rich man'k defense." In other words, in a large number of cases the plea of a mental aberration is an expensive perversion of justice.! If there could be an impartial Suite lunacy commission to pass upon the sanity of all murder defendants their testimony might be of some value in trials. OLD TIME STUFF—WHAT OUR DADDIES AND GRAND DADDIES DID 60 YEARS AGO IN BALTIMORE COUNTY. acknowledge the liberal appro priation of her sister State of Maryland for the relief of the wounded and of the families of the killed of Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in the lamentable occurrences at Baltimore on the nineteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. The people of Massachusetts will welcome with sincere and cordial satisfaction this evidence of the generous sympathy of the people of Maryland, which will tend to restore and strengthen that kind and fraternal feeling which should ever exist between the citizens of the different States of this Union. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of this Resolve to his Excellency the Governor of Mlaryland, with the request that it be laid before her Legislature at its next session. After which the two commonwealths resumed their former pleasant relations. May 16, 1862—An article showing how the Republicans or Union party stood on slavery at this date is as follows: "The fact is, Jones, the court did not intend to order you to be executed before next spring, but) the weather is very cold; our jail, unfortunately, is in a very bad condition; much of the glass in the windows is broken; the chimneys are in such a dilapidated state that no fire can be made to render your apartment comfortable; besides, owing to the number of prisoners, not| ^^^^H NORTH more than one blanket can be al- -^m^m^mm ^ lowed to each; to sleep sound I I BALTIMORE and comfortable, therefore, would be out of the question. In sideration of these circumstaii and wishing to lessen your ferings as much as possible, court m the exercise of its majiity and compassion, her* orders you to be executed morrow morning, as soon al breakfast as may be conveni to the sheriff and agreeable you." y, Ye Old Time 'sessssfiH AND THE 8£fT IN [STANDARD z The Paul Company % 510 Penna. 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THE MAJESTIC REGISTER is constructed to insure maximum fuel economy, distributing- and circulating the heat more evenly. It harmonizes with the floor furnishings; can be placed against the wall; occupies one-half less floor space; avoids cutting hole in the center of room; does not limit the furnace to one register nor collect dust. Write now for special prices and booklet, "BETTER HEATING.'' W. H. WILLIAMS 332 N. GAY ST. Phone, Calvert 2830 Baltimore, M«. 101 W.Lexington St. White SHOES Regularly $6 to $12 Practically every popular fashion feature enjoying the present vogue finds a representation in this choice and beautiful assortment. A model for every type and taste—and at what a saving! All sales final. aryland State Archives mdsa_sc34io_i_8i-oo9i.j |