Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-07

| publication will be brought out
| here" and directed DR.. Healy to talk
to the stenographers for the court
record with the attorneys for both
sides grouped closely about. News
papermen were admonished by Judge
| Caverly to keep out of earshOt.
Said He'd DO il Again
DR.. Healy said the matter secretly
discussed had a bearing on the ulti-
mate act of the boys.
He asserted Loeb told him on a
number of occasions he never had
found anything which would deter
him from doing it over again, re
| ferring to the Franks murder.
DR.. Healy testified as to various
mental tests he had given the boys,
| and upon insistence of Mr.. Grove,
| read unanimously into the record
a report of the various questions
and steps Of the tests.
DR.. Healy testified that one test,
usually requiring five minutes for
the most intelligent persons, had
been answered perfectly by Leopold
in 3 minutes Is seconds, the quickest
he ever had heard of it being solved
in.
AS DR.. HeaIy read from the tests
he had given Leopold, it was brought
out they included motor control
directions, judgment, symbol, and
various other tests, with the youth
usually rating very high in his re-
plies, his only failure being in Il
paper cutting test.
Bushes at Testimony
AS DR.. Eealy testified to his high
intellect, Leopold blushed and smiled
widely, while Loeb, sat interested but
unsmiling. "A most remarkably
short time" was repeated over and
over as DIR. Healy testified as to the
rapidity with which LeOpolds minds
reactions had permitted solving the
various tests.
DR.. Healy testified that in a word
reaction test in which he suggested
one word and Leopold mentioned the
word that one brought into his mind
Leopold's mind functioned slowly
when "chiseI" and "trouble" were
mentioned. A chisel was the instru-
ment of death in the Franks murder.
Leopold scored only 50 out of a
test, Just average for a 12-year-
child" said DR.. Healy. Every poorly
indeed, much to my SURPRISE
Throughout the tests Leopold
showed himself self-centered aud
egotistic beyond any normal stage
the witness testified. Concerning
his personality, one finds him very
energetic, physically and mentally:
very enthusiastic and forceful about
anything he initiates, and for years
has been very rebelliOus against So
cial and Religious Obligations"
He says he is a superman, and
on the basis of the philosophy of
Nietzsche." DR.. Healy testified re-
garding Leopold, lin Jail he feels
similar to Napoleon on st. Helena"
"Slave King Fantasy
'Leopold's main concern seems to
be, as he says, whether the report
ers say the right things about him.
| saw no evidence of what one might
expect of Il normal emotional life in
Jail or related to his discussion of
the crime"
DR.. Healy touched on the slave
king fantasy brought out previously
by DR.. White, and his testimony
closely paralleled that of the Wash
| ington psychiatrist.
| 1t is particularly clear that he
is enjoying Immensely the part he
| is pay llS, Sdlu the upClOI. IL -
m""N like a drama. and he thought
| the best way was 20 play the whole
! thing out, whatever the ending.
My judgment is that there seems
to be some steady impairment of
his own Judgment concerning him
self, particularly his relationship to
life
Leopold's day-dreaming or fan
| tastes made a very important thing,
/ said the witness, mot because we
are not all subject to it, but because
his early day-dreaming was so alb
normal and has been carried along
so abnormally. He began, so he
says, with dwelling on the picture of
suffering and causing others to suf-
fer, which would seem to be proof
! of something going wrong as a
! child. There was the crucifiXiOn
! which he dwelt upon.
''These fantasies apparently had
an immense influence on his life.
! They come up again and again and
! had relationship to his relations to