The Washington times., 1924-08-11

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Asaoore Weiner. 80. 10 Alan Dixon
ward members of his family were
exceedingly childish, Hubert said
Grove then turned the eXamina-
ton toward Miss Anna Struthers,
the early governess of young Loeb,
whom all the alienists have said had
powerful influence over Dicky
trom the time he was four until
ne was fourteen. Hubert said he
had talked to her.
She knew him as intimately as
anyone on earth?" asked Grove.
Perhaps" said Hubert, but I
think she misinterpreted many
things about him.
Reads From Letter.
Grove then read an except from
Loeb when he was eighteen, telling
him that "your nature is rich and
responsive, and your temperature
highly developed by your advanced
intelligence" and demanded to
know if that did not indicate his
goVerness thought he was grown
up.
After a short wrangle. Doctor
Hubert said he couldn't say with
out having the whole letter.
Grove led the alienist through
long definitions of adolescence"
and puberty" which words were
used often in the Bowman Hubert
report. The doctor finally said the
age Of puberty was passed when a
man took up a normal, sexual life,
married and started to rear a
family.
Then any man who never
marries, or any man who is an
exponent of birth control never
leads a normal sex life?" asked
Grove.
Not in my opinion"
The States attorney asked
whether Doctor Hubert had at.
tached any considerable significance
to the fact that young Loeb con-
Of fifteen. and Hubert said he had
considered it but placed no undue
weight on it.
Judge Gives Warning.
The testimony at this point was
approaching the delicate stage, and
Judge Caverly warned the lawyers |
that if they were going much |
further along this line, it would |
again be necessary to resort to the !
whispered testimony" that has
been taken already several times !
in this trial.
Grove abandoned the line Of Ques.
tioning, and read from the Bow
man. Hubert report those excerpts
which dealt with the dermatology,
or skin descriptions, of the slayers.
do their skins have any effect |
on their mental state?" he asked
with the customary sarcasm.
Eyes, their skins are indicative
of some evidence as to their mental
state" replied Hubert. He then
explained that blushing and blanch.
ing indicated what went on in the
mind.
The defense considers that it has
an lace" in the hole in this counter
offensive. 1t consists Of a text
book on mental disorders, Insanity |
and the Law" written by Doctor
William o. Krohn and Doctor
Harold D. Singer, two of the States
alienists, in which, the defense con.
tends. Doctors Krohn and Singer |
described as mentally inferior just |
such persons as Nathan Leopold |
and Dicky Loeb. The defense |
lawyers are planning to quote the
own words Of Doctor Krohn and |
Doctor Singer to them on the stand,
If they testify that the boys are
sane and responsible.
"Psychopathic Interiors"
A new scientific phrase was
tossed into the battle of words and |
terms today. 1t Is "psychopathic
interiors" That Is what Doctor
James Whitney Hall, another Of the
defense alienists, termed the young |
slayers. His colleagues have hereto
fore described them as mentally dis
eased, mentally unsound, victims of
disordered personalities, phantasy
worshippers, dream children. emo
tional infants, and paranoiacs.
Doctor Halls findings, resembling |
in the main those of the other de-
Tense alienists. differ somewhat as
to phraseology.
my findings are, he reported.
that the boys, Leopold and Loeb,
are psychopathic interiors; they
have emotional defects. and defec.
tive judgment is only relatively
responsible for their acts.
"Psychopathic inferiority is a
condition referred to by various
writers as moral insanity, impulsive |
insanity, moral imbecility and
moral deficiency"
It is at this juncture In his re.
port that Doctor Hall will, II given
the opportunity, quote the Krohn.
Singer book in substantiation Of
his findings, thus stealing some Of
the States thunder.
Both Leopold and Loeb, Doctor
Hall found, unfit them for any
part in society, as both are en-.
tirely anti.social and unsocial in
all their conclusions.
would Wreck He'll"
''They would not be satisfied in
Heaven and they probably would
wreck hell. They are ships with
sails but without anchor"
That is the way DR.. Hall sum.
marizes his description Of the boys
as infants terrible. q
Angel Face Diclxy" calmly con.
faaaad Dr. Hall aafa foy.+h <ha% hm