The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-22
HEREDITY, MONEY OF LEOPOLD-LOEB CAUSE DOWNFALL Dr. G. R. Stuart Asserts Crime Results From
 Dementia

Americas passionate love of money and it's intense devotion to anything involving money is largely responsible for the excessive notoriety given the Loeb-I Leopold case, declared Dr. George R. Stuart of the First Methodist church, who took for his Sunday evening ser mon the subject, "After All the Evi- dence is in, What Are the Real Les sons of the Loeb ieopold Case
 At the outset. Dr. Stuart emphasized the point that the case is not unique in any particular; that cases contain ing clements of criminal instinct, moral depravity and cold-blo0dedness are com mon in every section of the United States, and receive only passing men, ton, unless accompanied by the mo- toriety- making factor of money, In the sermon the ''master-mind" criminal theory became ordinary depraved men tally.
 - Dr. Stuart did not enter into any discussion of the wisdom of the verdict of Judge Cayerly, nor did he analyze the evidence introduced into the case in specific way, but chose rather to dwell upoh the sociological and psycho- logical factors responsible for bringing about a desire for crime in the minds of rich mems sons. From these he de- duced changes in social conditions, which would ameliorate the desire for crime-the criminal dementia."
 "The Loeb-Leopold case is not unique," Dr. Stuart said. Its mo- toriety is due to the money element in- volved. This is proven by the fact that the case of Warren Lincoln of Aurora, H.. received only the barest mention. Yet, here was a poor man who brutally murdered his wife took her head, the head of the only woman in the world for him, and encased it in a cement block, which he placed in the founda- tion of his home.
 "He dismembered the body. placing the hands, which had fed him into furnace to be consumed. No, there was nothing extraordinary about the Loeb-Leopold case.
 Criminal Dementia Evident
 ''We can draw from the evidence that there was criminal dementia evident in the case. This also is not unique. This same mental sickness which indicates a defective mind of criminal tendency, is common in a les ser degree in large percent of tue cases brought up in our courts.
 "This criminal dementia results from two things-bad heredity and bad train ing.
 Our efforts to correct these contrib uting factors are not beginning at the root. Rushing a criminal into court to determine his guilt, then rushing him to the gallows or to the peniten- tiary does not correct these mental de- fects; although it is necessary to re- move criminals from society for it's temporary salvation.
 If society is to be saved, we must handle criminology scientifically. Our rushing methods of court procedure are out of date. If man is suspected of having tuberculosis, he is not taken into court where witness testifies to having seen the man expectOrate. In- stead, the sick person is taken to a doetor-an expert on his line-who makes scientific examination and who orders the patient to follow a course designed to restore health.
 "In the case if diseased minds, the same procedure ought to be used. From the evidence of the LOeb-Leopold case, it was clear that there was mental de- | fectiveness. That question can only be settled in any case by the severest and (COntinued on page threel