Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-07-28
STATE To REST
ON EVIDENCE /
AFTER TODAY
Defense at the Loeb-Leopold
Trial to Be Heard
at Once
| ALIENISTS ARE FEATURED
DarroW Expected to Open
Battle to Prove "Miti- )
eating Circumstances"
ALIENIsTs ARE FEATURED
CHICAGO. July 2S (By The Assoc

CHICAGO, July 2s (By The Asso-
ciated Press) THE final pieces Of
testimony with which States Attor-
ney Grove has been building his
mountain of testimony In the
hearing which Is to determine the
fate of Richard Loeb and Nathan
Leopold, Jr., were reached today.
After a morning session devoted
largely to expert Identification OF
handwriting and typewriter speci-
mems as those made by the defend-
ants, Mr.. Grove said that only one
or two witnesses remained to be-
heard.
One of these is Johnny Levinsous
the youth who was. one OF the -
to see Robert Franks kAEe ana wa
according to the e0nfessiof
pold and Loeb had once been con-
sidered as a likely subject for the
plot which ended in the abduction
and killing of young Franks.
John Tyrell, of Milwaukee, Wis, a
handwriting expert with q record OF
appearances in that capacity at more
than 200 important trials, identified
the original ransom letter which de-
manded $4,000 from Jacob M.
Franks, father of the slain boy, and
another letter left in a parlor car
for Mr.. Franks, as having been writ
ten on an Underwood portable type
writer. A battered Underwood fish,
ed from a Jackson Park lagoon
where, according to their confess
sions. Loeb and Leopold had tossed
1t previously had been t--troduced il
evidence.
Mr.. Tyrell went into a detailed ex-
io 10 Of fha ri a f-pf
teristics printing of the Underwood
portable and similar information was
started on the handwriting speci-
mems but Attorney Darrow suggested
the facts were not disputed and
Judge Caverly said:
1.-THE defense has no objection 50
all these Photographic comparisons
may go in as one exhibit"
Clarence Darrow, of counsel for
the defense for Loeb and Leopold,
on trial for the confessed kidnapping
and Staying of Robert Franks, said
today that reports printed by MORN
ing newspapers today as statements
from defense alienists were really
only the reports of physical examina-
tions made for the information of the
defense experts on mentality.
Mr.. Darrow said that there were
seven reports of alienists intended
for defense use, and that the two
printed were really the least impor-
tant. since they were intended as re-
ports on the physical condition of the
youths for the alienists to work
from. ~
1t was pointed out that the reports
published this morning contained no
conclusions as to the mental condi-
tions or capacities of the defendants.
The reports were purported to
have come from DR.. Carl M. Bow
man. of Boston, and DIR. III. S. HUI
bert, of Chicago.
When the state rests, the defense
Will put on the stand the alienists,
who for the last several weeks have
been examining the two wealthy uni
versity students.
In that manner, Clarence Darrow,
chief of defense counsel, is expected
to open the battle to prove '.miti-
eating circumstances" battle,
which, according to one of the psily-
chtatrists engaged by the defense,
will be the most distinguished in
medical history and which Mr..
Grove has said will be one of the
most hotly contested defenses in
legal history.
The first witness for the state to-
day will be Police Captain William
Shoemaker, a handwriting expert.
Following him will come John Lew
inson, II, originally intended as
victim by Loeb and Leopold, but who
unwittingly escaped them by absent
ing himself from his usual haunts.