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q the accident" replied the physi.
States Attorney Grove apparently
considered Doctor Armstrong; testj.
mopy SO unimportant that he did
not cross-exarnine. him.
49, Classmate Called.
Then a. classmate Of Dicky's was
called to tell OF his "Queerness."
He was Leonard Levy.
Levy said he had seen Loeb
faint several times, and described
one New Year eve at the Chicago
Beach Hotel, when Dicky had been
''fIe tainted and fell to the floor"
said Levy. 1--WE put him on a pool
table, and he was out for about ten
minutes. He frothed at the mouth,
4nNss So. - So I'm
'tLater he became very pugnacious
and wanted to beat UP q couple Of
waters, - -i--@'~5
Levy said Loeb always was re.
garded as ''sort OF childish" at the
University of Michigan. and no
never considered him very respon-
sible."
Grove put the student through
his usual sarcastic cross-examina+
tioh. s
GAS a matter of fact" he said.
''Dick was drunk at that New
Year. eve party, wasn't he?"
yes" admitted Levy. .
mo" ~.
'sWell, this freth that you say
came from his mouth, wasn't Il
Just drool? Wasn't it just a drunk
en- pAss.oat instead of a faint?"
Levy said he thought it was q
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Fraternity Brother Called.
Bernard Kolb, another fraternity
brother Of Loeb's at the university.
Loeb as a nervous boy, although
always reading detective stories end
thPillefs, and about practical
things he as sort Of irresponsible.
He was .tlighty in his converse.
ton. Very young ana immature"
Kolb also testified that Dicky had
tainted twice during the fraternity
Initiation at college.
"These college fraternity initia-
tions are pretty rough" said Grove
On cross Did he faint
or was he knocked out?"
'HS:. tainted |
Theodore Schimberg, student at
the University OF Chicago, came
next. He said Loeb had always
been q nervous. boy; that he
smoked peculiarly" and that nc
Seemed always in a state of ten.
Sion. :....,>. -.
4fIe was, apparently rigid" said
LEVY, .:;:hia, eyes were open and he
had a. cold sweat on his forehead"
Levy was q. freshman when
Dtcky waa, O. senior, but he said
pieKy was so immature that be
never ''had much respect for him"
Harry Booth, a classmate OF
LeopoId's at Chicago, said Leo
pofd once told him he was. a.
"'nihilist,". -. -.
-. His View Of Murder
He described an occasion in a
class room once when Leopold ad'
Vanced the argument to an in.
stxuctor that Society should not
hold d murderer responsible. il
the murderer thought he had done
right"
Leopold took his Nietzsche and
philosophy seriously, Booth said,
much more seriously than did 9TH
or students.
Booth. observed that Nietzsche
died in an insane asylum, and that
most students looked at 1t from a
historical standpoint, rather than
as a philosophy applicable to
modern life. -.
Herbert J. Weber, a friend Of
IIeopold's, said c"Babe" once told
him he believed that "the indi.
viduzt owed nothing to society" and
that. IAN individual should seek
only to- please himself" :~,,
ibid you ever hear him speak
Of his superman ideas as applied
to thimself2" asked Darrow.
""well, he thought he was one Of
the top-notchersy" said Weber. 'He
thought Dicky Loeb was one Of the
greatest men in the world. He
was very ego.centric."
,. No Moral Obligations
weber said. he thought that what.
ever crime Leopold engaged in
could be traced to these peculiar
ideas Of right and wrong. and: che
twisted philosophy of life he had.
''ffe recognized no moral obligA'
tons" he declared.
When court recessed ct noon, the
defense had practically concluded
itS list OF lay witnesses. ou'"ide- or
the relatives Of the two boys. and
it was planned to return to the
alienists Mt the afternoon session.
It has bon though road for the
defense thug H"r in putting on ITS
lay witnesses to reinforce the con.
clusiNNs of the alienists that the.
youthful killers are diseased mental.
and have paranoiac personalities.
Grove has uncorked the walls of
his sarcasm ana poured 1t on the
defense's- witnesses without ceesa.
ton. He has ironically demanded IN
know whether Dicky Loeb's taking
the stairs three steps at time is
anything unusual for q healthy six.
year-old boy; he has satirically in.
quired whether Nathan Leopoid's
talking Of philosophy, subject he
was studying, is evidence Of abnor.
Inality; and with supreme sarcasm
he has asked each defense witness
why he or she considered the boy
slAyers sane ana normal two months
ego and now considers them queer"
Foresight Valuable.
The States attorney Is realizing
heavily on his foresight at the time