The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-14
STATE ALENISTS BELITTLE CLAIM OF DARROW MEN Declare Loeb And Leopold Mentally Sound And
 Physically Normal PLAIN MURDERERS,
 SAYS DIR. PATRICK Youths Planned To Divide Ransom 5O-5O, Court
 Is Told
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CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-The structure built by the defense in support of it's plea for pen itentiary sentences for Rich ard Loeb and Nathan F. Leo pold, Jr., kidnapers-murderers of young Robert Franks, was attacked top and bottom to- day by the state, which, in re- buttal. kept two alienists on the witness stand throughout the day.
 The theories of four defense alien ists that childish phantasies continu- ing into young manhood as .malign irl- fluences, stunted emotional growths and functional disorders of the endocrene glands, blended into a whole of "men- tai sickness" in each youth, were as- sailed by Dr. Hugh q. Patrick and Dr. Archibald Church of Chicago who said their examination of Loeb and Leopold indicated no abnormality of dream life or emotion, nor in the en- 6ocrene system.
 Proclaimed Normal
 Dr. Patrick, on the witness stand throughout the day except for brief period just before noon when he was replaced by Dr. Church, proclaimed both youths normal except so far as commission of deliberate, coldblooded murder indicates disordered mentality" !"
 He told of various displays of emo. tion by both youths and asserted that phantasies or lair castles or castles in Spain" are .'highly normal"
 Dr. Church testified he found ..no mental disease of any nature whatgo. eyern in either Loeb or Leopold by ex- animation of them or in reading re- ports of defense alienists. He laso de. scribed emotional displays witnessed h the two.
 Attacking the findings of endocrine patl10a0sy iA Leopold 1ln. Ghurch sal ld the A-rAy pictures Of the pineal gland could not be relied upon, as the gland frequently contained a quantity of grit would indicate on X-ray plates a calcified condition. Denies Hulbert Claim
 It was the contention of Dr. H. s. Hubert of Chicago who brought en. docrinology, the chemistry of char acter," into the hearing, that the pineal governed the other endocrine glands and that in Leopold's case the pineal had calcified at the youthful age of '19, whereas 1t should not have for several years yet. Dr. Church tes- tified that the gland calcified at no special age. Long hypothetical questions covering all items of pathology, irregularities of personality and emotional adolescence set forth by the defense alienists as pointing toward mental sickness" in Loeb and Leopold, were asked Doc tors Patrick and Church and their replies to all were without variance T found nothing in my examination nor in printed reports to lead me to diag- nosis of mental disease" by Dr. Patrick and "there was no evidence of any mental disease" by Dr. Church.
 ReteII Kidnaping Story
 Both mental pathologists prefaced their statements of findings by relat- ing complete stories of the kidnapping and staying May 21 of the Franks boy as told to them by Loeb and Leopold. They followed in general the confess sions of the youths and descriptions given many times by other witnesses
 That the $1O,O00 ransom demanded from Jacob Franks, father of the mur- dered boy, actually was a part rather than a detailed phantasied perfect crime" both doctors testified the youths had admitted. The money "was to be divided 60-50," said Patrick, and
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