The Washington times., 1924-08-27


the State should be allowed to deal
with the testimony of their Doctors"
Attacks "Dicky'' Painting.
Judge Caverly again said he was
not interested in comment on other
cases, and Grove then launched an
attack on the whole scheme Of
the defense as a Fictitious one
built up to meet special needs"
He scornfully referred to testimony
of defense witnesses that Dicky
Loeb was subject to fainting' spells.
'If these defendants had not
been caught like rats in a trap"
he shouted, I'VE would have had
a defense here of plain epilepsy
and insanity"
ION cross examination every one
Of these fainting spells was dis
closed to be either the result Of
being knocked unconscious or of
- drunken stupor."
TRASH" cried Grove. with a
sweep Of his arm that took in all
the theories of the defense alien
lists, including the Bowman-Hulbert
report.
Would Hear Governess.
Sarcastic wonderment was ex-
pressed by Grove that the defense
did not put on the stand the boy
hood governess of Dicky Loeb.
whose influence over Loeb was so
stressed in all of the doctors re-
ports.
"They had her here in Chicago"
shouted the States attorney. "Why
didn't they put her on the stand?
] know. It was because she denied
that he ever had any phantasies
and disorders up to the age. of fiji
teen. She would not substantiate
this trash. And she wanted to help
the boy, too, but she would tell the
truth. And that is why she was
not brought into this court.
This governess, Grove declared,
would not testify that Dicky Loeb
played detective, developed an early
habit Of lying, had abnormal boyish
fantasies and dreams, and other
eccentricities upon which the States
alienists laid so much emphasis.
Raps Medical Philosophy.
"It has been contended here"
Grove went on, that Loeb had no
ambition in life and because Of
that he was mentally unbalanced,
that the other defendant did have
an ambition and purpose in life, so
he is mentally disordered.
20, the happy philosophy Of med
icine. It is a bad sign because one
defendant has to shave once a day,
and an equally bad sign If the
other has to shave twice week.
Broken arches are bad sign IN
one, and high arches in the other.
"They say this defendant is men,
tally diseased because he read de-
tective stories when he was a boy.
''I was a boy myself. can re-
member crawling under the bed to
read Nick Carter. Then switched
to French detective stories. And
when 1 was student at Yale, and
Raffles literature was in vogue,
spent more time on Raffles than I
did on Real Property 1t is the
not uncommon experience OF many
Of u.s."
Discrepancies in Testimony.
Grove constantly referred to the
Hubert report as he spoke, reading
excerpts from it to show wherein
1t differed with some of the other
evidence brought out about the
early life of the two boys. He
pointed out that in the Hubert
Bowman report, Leopold was de-
scribed as being frank except when
he had something to conceal"
"Yet old Doc White said that
"Dicky could not lie to him; that
he could read his mind as easily as
an X-ray can reveal the human
body. Doctor White did not say he
knew more than the Lord does,
but believe he would insist that he
knows as much as the Lord did at
his age"
Grove developed a major dis.