The Washington times., 1924-07-28

the bungIing Of Leopold. the ''men.
tai slave" Of Loeb, the master, =
was responsible for the failure.
Hence the somewhat lofty con.
tempt that the master" has for
his s'slave."
Show No RemOrSa
The alienists reported they could
find no trace ct al Of any remorss
on the part Of either student. They
asked Loeb e he would do II al
over again. II Sc knew he would
not be caught, and he told them:
Eyes, believe / would Il I
could set the money"
''The patient Dsts e his reasons
Tor committing the crime.". said
Doctors Murdoch and Hubert, tile
following:
First, the pleasure Of planning
the crime.
Second. the nOtoraety which the
papers would give the crime. and
the TACT he could talk II over with
others and set q thrill from the
feeling OF superiority, IN that he
knew the facts Of the crime and
they did not and,
Third, the money to be gained. :
The money angle somewhat pug
zles the psychiatrists. Only $4,000
was to be secured from Jacob
Franks. their victims father. Split
two ways It would amount to but
$4,000 each. Loeb. at the tins,
had $1,000 in his personal checking
account. His father was worth
many millions. So was Leopold'a.
Tells Sensations.
Loeb's sensations as the blood
spurted from little Bobby Franks
head were described TO the doctors
~ follows:
IT got great excitement. heart
beating, which was pleasant. was
cool and self-possessed. I had quite
a time in quoting Leopold.
II cooled him down In five min
utes, after we got him F'ranls) In
the back seat. thinking him still
"FIe bled q lot. Leopold said:
This II terrible. this IL terrible I
told him It was all right, and joIIed
ana laughed. Possibly It calmed
me. too. the Joking and laughing. !"
Il was typical, perhaps, OF their
egotisttc feeling Of intellectual supe-
rtority that each thought OF killing
the other. Both carried guns, and
the same thought occurred to each
OF them at various times in their
plot. But somehow II never came
TO pass. Perhaps It would have,
had not the intellectually inferior
police swooped down on them and
shattered their carefully laid plans.
Loeb said to his examiners con.
corning Leopold:
If could have snapped nv
fingers and caused his heart 10
stop beating ! would have done
So"
FeIt Superiority.
Why would he have done so7
Well, then 'tDiclky" Loeb would
then be the only living being who
would have known the true facts
about the perfect crime Of the
Twentieth Century. The knowledge
that he alone OF all the 10 900 900
people in the United States knew
the truth would have given him
feeling Of immense superiority,
Intellectual uperiority''--thisa an.
pears to the alienists as the under.
lying motive for the whole bloody,
sordid business; II appears TO then,
to be the obeesgion In the back Of
each boys eriy-developed brain.
Such mundane, prosaic creatures
as detectives and corner COPS sci.
dom entered into the crime
phantasies OF Dicky Loeb. They
held little place in his dreams. He
was superior. They were cattle.
"In his rhantaeie~ about crime
said the doctors report, 1.-THE patient
they refer to Loeb as PATENT
gradually commenced TO imagine
himself doing all sorts Of crimes:
he. derived intense pleasure from
each phantasy. and particularly felt
q feeling Of superiority to others in
that he knew and they did not