Evening star., 1924-08-22
DEFENSE STRESSES
PARANO|D THEORY
Bachrach Declares Both
. Leopold and Loeb Have
Dual Personalities.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associ ted Press.
CHICAGO. August 22.-That Nathan
Leopold. jr.. and Richard Loeb, have
paranoid personalities was the direct
statement made today to Judge John
r. Caverly by Walter Bachrach one
of the attorneys who are trying to
save from the gallows the admitted
murderers of Robert Franks.
Mr.. Bachrach devoted much of his
argument to an analysis of the medi-
cal testimony, asserting that the
alienists hadtaken insufficient oppor-
tunlty to study the youths.
He also intimated that those obser-
vations had been made with the idea
OF stopping, a defense based upon
legal insanity and therefore failed to
take into consideration symptoms
which would show a mental disease
short of insanity.
HeariBE Is DELAYED
The strictest orders on admission of
the hearing made it hard task for
even accredited news writer's to win
admission to the proceedings today.
The corridors and anterooms were
jammed with would-be spectators,
armed with all sorts of credentials,
but none of them was good until after
tn bailiffs had combed the assemblage
of friends of the judge" or friends
of the attorneys
When the common folks and news
papermen were finally allowed to start,
it needed only three minutes to fill
the remaining seats. Court was 10
minutes late in opening. The cause
was the prospect that Clarence S. Oar.
row, veteran chief counsel for the de-
fense, might get started on his long
awaited plea to save his youthful
ho Ho
was scheduled to follow Walter Bach
rach, junior defense counsel, who
yesterday started the final inning of
the defense with an argument designed
to make plain the object of the de-
fense in offering mental disease, short
of insanity" as a mitigating circum-
stance.
Mr.. Bachrach, picking up his thread
of argument stopped yesterday at ad-
journment. began with a discussion
of the alienists' testimony for the
State, pointing out that they did not
have the proper surroundings to make
scientific or inclusive examination.
when DR.. Hugh T. Patrick testi-
fed for the State he couched his opin-
ions in the most careful language and
did nothing more than state that in
that inadequate examination no proof
had been submitted to him that the
DEFENDANTS were mentally diseased.
The symptoms of these boys are such
that no immediate diagnosis can be
made.
Now what DR.. William o. Krohn
and DR.. H. Douglas Singer. other
State alienists, think about it is best
defined in their own book. This book
on page 1919 says that few laymen
and indeed few physicians have suf-
ficient knowledge of insanity to con-
duct any elaborate examination or
diagnosis of 1t.
Quotes DIR. White.
DR. William A. White, in dealing
with the subject as to how it is pos
sible to have a criterion of dependa-
bility on the part Of the patients be-
ing examined, was asked If he could
tell when the patient was lying, and
said that IL they were consistent with
the well known laws we have right
to temporarily conclude that the an
swers are correct. This statement is
, corroborated in the book of Drs.
Krohn and Singer, the expert who is
interested in case has the means
at hand to determine whether the
statements made by his patients are
true
"One must bear in mind that the
time, atmosphere and surroundings
have an important bearing on the ex-
animation of a patient" continued
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