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(BETTER OFF DEAD.DECLARES DARROW j4CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—(INS)—'“He ' is better off dead.-’The man who saved Richard4Locb and Nathan Leopold from !the gallows for the brutal slaying ' of little Bobby Franks made that i startling declaration today.Clarence Darrow, whose dramatic plea for the life of the young slavers is still held one of thegreatest in history of criminal trials, added:“He is better off than Leopold —better off dead.”Asked why he fought tooth and nail for his clients almost 12 j years ago if he considered death preferable to imprisonment, Dar-row, now 79, frail and threatened with an eye operation, declared: “I had no light to trifle with the life of those boys. They wanted to live. My duty was to help j them do so.'’Of the “thrill slayers*’ of little Bobby Franks Darrow said:] “Loc’o had the sunnier disposition. He made friends easily; mixed with people readily. But I d not say he was the more dom-i inant. I’d not say that either in-■ fluenced the other. They planned together over a long period.He expressed sorrow over the slaying of Dickie, but repeated: i “Death is the easier sentence, i compared with life in prison.***1
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Racine Journal Times
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jan 29, 1936
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