text: were these boys in their right minds here were two boys with good intellect one eighteen and one nineteen they had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young one a graduate of chicago and another of ann arbor one who had passed his examination for the harvard law school and was about to take a trip in europe another who had passed at ann arbor the youngest in his class with three thousand dollars in the bank boys who never knew what it was to want a dollar boys who could reach any position that was to boys of that kind to reach boys of distinguished and honorable families families of wealth and position with all the world before them and they gave it all up for nothing for nothing they took a little companion of one of them on a crowded street and killed him for nothing and sacrificed everything that could be of value in human life upon the crazy scheme of a couple of immature lads