New Britain herald., 1924-08-15
.LEOPOLD.LOEB CASE
 IS DRAGGING ALONG
State Brings Forth More Expert
 Medical Testimony

Chicago. Aug ls.-Ths I.s0nold- Loeb kidnapping murder ease dFsgr ged along again today with the re- eital of more expert medical lestir meny tending 10 dispTays the claims of the defense that the two slaysrs were mentally lll'' on the day Of the murder
 Ioisy's Revelations
 Endeerinolosy, the new chemistry of character" the relation of the duetless glands 10 mentality. was the subject for further revelations in the hearing today before Judge John R, caNerly to determine whether Nathan l., Leopold, IT., and Richard Laeh shall he hanged or sentenced to neni- tentisFy terms for the kidnapping and murder of Robert Franks,
 The theory of functional disorders Of the endoerine having affected sd. vsrsely the mentality of the youths was advanced by defense alienist to bolster the plea for mitigation Of punishment
 Dr. Rallin T. woodyatt Of Chicago, one of the few physicians who have studied endoerinology eKhaustlvely. was named as the states first witness today, Two alienists for the state concluded their testimony yesterday. admitting on cross-eXamination that the irregular conclusions that tho youths were sane were arrived at after brief conversations with the de- fendants and perfunctory physical examinations.
 Dr. Woodyatt TcstiRes
 Dr. Woodyatt described himself as a physician who has confined his prac- tiee to international medicine. He said he had spent two years in Germany studying special phases Of medicine. Returning to Chicago he studied fur ther in chemistry and founded are search laboratory. He is a professor of medicine at the University of chi- cago.
 During the last fifteen years he said he had been engaged particularly in investigations along chemical lines in the practice of medicine. with his par ticular practice the last two years in the replacement of tis- sues and secretions within the body.
 In scientific terms he described the various tests for determining the rate or degree of metabolism in a patient, referring to determining the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood sugar in the system, acidosis. etc.
 Milton Smith, an assistant states | attorney, put the hypothetical ques- v11, Il 1, ya s1a various disorders. remarked upon as found by defense doctors in Leopold and Loeb. |
 Mir. Smith read from a prepared list of questions with which the wit ness seemed familiar.
 There would be nothing in the of the Bowman Hubert re- port to indicate disease of the en- docrine glands?" Mir. Smith asked
 No replied Dr. Woodyatt, be cause there Is nothing in those find ngs incompatible with health"
 Are they compatible with entire asked Mir. Smith.
 'They are," responded Dr. Wood att (
 The Doctors Knowledge.
 The next question involved the doc l or's knowledge of the present state I # medical knowledge of the endoc- i inc glands.
 There are many definite facts he said, but they are scat | cred and not scientifically classified. t ! great deal remains to be known r bout that field. Little that is CO., a erent and concrete is now known" s "The field of endocrinology has S cen exploited by romantic writers, r harlatans and others, who are not to e classified as scientists" said Dr. V Voodyatt. W In the case of the thyroid gland | that substance which can be separat- l. nown. It has been injected into c len and animals and observations S Jade of the effect" b After having attacked the dcfense's 1eory of functional disorders of the IT ndocrines as having affected the 0