Evening star., 1924-08-08
Youthful Slayer Has Seen
Her Only Once Since He
Was lnCarcerated in Jail.
LE0P0LD'S SUPERMAN
IDEAS TOLD BY STUDENT
Regarded Himself as TOP Notch
er," and Companion in Crime as
Wonderful Man.
By the Associated Press.

By the Assoca ted Press
CHICAGO, August S.-Mrs. Albert
II. Loeb, mother of Richard Loeb, NAV
take the stand in an effort to gain
mitigation of the penalty her son
and Nathan Leopold, jr., must pay for
kidnapping and killing Robert Franks.
according to defense plans Nathan
Leopold, sr., millionaire box manufac-
turer, also will testify, it was said
Since his Incarceration in the
county Jail on May 30, after he con-
fessed the crime for which Judge
John r. Caverly will fix the punish
ment. Loeb has been visited only once
by his mother. She has insisted OH
testifying despite physicians warn
ings against her leaving the Loeb
summer home at Charlesvoix, Mich,
where she is attending her invalid
husband.
Superman Idea Described.
Harry Booth, University of Chicago
student, testifying today, said that
along in last March Leopold, in dis
cussing his superman idea with a
group of friends, asserted that the
man who would commit murder was
not necessarily responsible to society.
Herbert J. Weber, 20-year old Har-
ward University student, testified he
had known Leopold three years and
had discussed the Nietchian philos-
ophy with him and also had discussed
Leopold's theory of life with him. He
said Leopold based his whole personal
philosophy on the superman and at
all times seriously regarded himself
pold said he regarded Loeb as the
most wonderful man in the world"
Youth Advises Counsel.
Defense examination of the college
boy witnesses was guided by small
blond youth of apparently is or le,
who whispered to the defense attor-
neys. Nobody could identify him, and
Benjamin Bachrach refused to say
who he was. Weber said he thought
Leopold was highly egotistic, and said
he and Leopold disagreed on the in
terpretation of Neitsche. Judge Cav
Mr.. Darrow said at recess that he
had completed presentation of the de-
fense's testimony with one possible
exception, d young inferno at Chi
cago hospital.
Large Crowd Disappointed.
Drawn by the hope of hearing 9TH
er girl friends of Loeb and Leopold
testify, the greatest crowd of the 10
days of the hearing stormed the
Criminal Court Building today.
They were destined to meet dis
appointment. however, as Clarence 5.
Darrow. chief of defense counsel. said
as he entered Judge John r. Cav
erly's courtroom that no further girl
witnesses would be called.
Judge Caverly's bundle of suggestive
letters this morning was considerably
smaller than those received on pre-
ceding days. Reading one from an
address nearly 800 miles away.
which urged him to bring the youths
swiftly to justice, Judge Caverly said:
This hearing has been conducted
second to the swiftest of any in the
history of the criminal court of Cook
County. Some people seem to think
/ should hear the boys in the after
noon, render my decision at night
and have them hanged next day. 1t
is my duty to hear evidence in miti-
cation, and l shall give all the time
necessary to hear all such evidence.
1t is mandatory upon me-
Painting Spells Cited.
DR.. Robert Bruce Armstrong. of
Charlevoix, Mich, the Loeb family
physician when the family is at its
Summer home, testified that Loeb was
in a hospital several hours after an
automobile accident in 1920, and had
several fainting spells the evening
after he was hurt which the doctor
said he regarded as unusual. There
were no perceptible injuries. the wit
ness said, although he thought the
fainting spells were attributable to
the accident.
Robert E. Grove. States arrorney,
did not offer to cross-examine.
Leonard Levy, University Of Michi-
gan graduate, testified regarding
Loebs fainting spells at Ann Arbor,
Mich, saying upon one occasion Loeb
frothed at the mouth and was un
conscious, although his eyes were
open, for ten minutes. Levy testified
along the lines of other University
of Michigan students on the stand
esterday. Cross-examination was
brief Bernard Kolb. University of
Michigan graduate and now Chi
cago clothier, offered much the same
evidence as the other youths.
Tutor Noted No Change.
Theodore Schimberg, student at the
University of Chicago, which Loeb
attended two years before going to
the University of Michigan, gave SIM
liar testimony.
David Max Wester, former tutor of
Leopold, testified he had tutored him
on the day before and the day after
the murder of Bobby Franks, and
that he noticed nothing unusual in
his conduct.
The trial will cost the prosecu-
tion and defense a total near $500, 900,
it was estimated today. The fact
that the judicial hearing to determine
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