DARROW CLARENCE Typed Letter Signed to Philip Leibsohn (My D

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DARROW, CLARENCE. Typed Letter Signed, to Philip Leibsohn ("My Dear Mr. Leibsohn"), requesting information regarding the case of Lyle Messner, including whether a local lawyer would take on the case without charging. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal folds, few scattered holograph corrections. With the original envelope. Chicago, 24 June 1935

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". . . I know perfectly well that you can do the case more good than anyone that is liable to help. . . ."
with--Philip Liebsohn. TLS, his reply to Darrow's letter. 28 June 1935.
In 1927, 14-year old Lyle Messner was sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of a 6-year old girl. Darrow was asked by Lyle's mother to get involved in an appeal to lessen the sentence. In 1935 his sentence was commuted.