they solved the case of that murder
of fourteen-year-old bobby franks.
it was the spectacles that
led detectives to the slayers.
nathan leopold, jr.,
son of a millionaire manufacturer,
and richard loeb,
his companion,
were taken into custody
for kidnapping and killing their neighbor.
the reports say both leopold and loeb are smart,
students at the university in chicago.
they made full confessions to the charges,
said they’d been planning the job
since november.
if leopold had not dropped his spectacles,
if the spectacles had not been so uncommon,
they would have gotten away with it.
they would have gotten away
with murder.