Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over. It would never be over for Nathan Leopold, the only survivor of the Crime of the Century...
...killing, police found Bobby Franks's naked, beaten body in the Hegewisch swampland south of Chicago. Near it lay a pair-of horn-rimmed glasses, quickly traced through its unusual hinge to Nathan Leopold. Questioned, the supermen broke wide open, fell to shrilly blaming each other for their crime...
...Caverly to present evidence of "the mental condition of these young men." A month later, as Darrow began his closing argument, a crowd fought wildly for seats in the courtroom, and a bailiff's arm was broken in the scramble. For twelve hours Clarence Darrow argued that the crime had been one of compulsion, that Nathan Leopold and Dickie Loeb could not have helped themselves. When he finished, tears were streaming down Judge Caverly's cheeks. He sentenced Leopold and Loeb to life imprisonment, plus 99 years, with the strong recommendation that they never be admitted to parole...
...immigrants fan out into other areas in the city. Some well-off families manage to slip into fine old neighborhoods like Germantown, where they keep well-run homes. But the net effect of the migration is to create new ghettos, drop real-estate values, drain tax revenues, lift the crime rate,† and overburden public schools (18 are all-Negro; in 50, Negroes comprise from 50% to 90% of the student bodies). "There are 60,000 units housing 200,000 people today," says Mayor Dilworth, "that are unfit for human habitation...
...Most Northern cities do not keep records of Negro v. white convictions, but as in New York City, where 35% of the crime rate is charged to Negroes, the rate in Philadelphia is disproportionately high...