Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-31
A DANGER
To ALL ABOUT HIM,
SAYS DEFENSE AID

CHICAGO, July 29.-N1than Leo.
pold. Jr., is "a socially dangerous
person. suffering from a psychosis,
according to the report Of DR.. Will
liam Bealy, alienist of Boston, pre-
pared for presentation in the Franks
trial.
DR.. Healy, who will be q witness
for the defense, says in his report
that he can see no other conclusion
possible but that Leopold is a thor
oughly unbalanced individual on his
mental life, really mentally diseased
of the paranoiac or monomaniac.
type (which has produced so many
criminals"
The report continues: HE has
been generally uDreCogniZed and
continues to be unrecognized as men
tally diseased but his ordinary be-
havior does not reveal his inner men,
tai life and particularly his deluSlon
about himself"
In the first part OF his report, DIR.
HeaIy says that in a large number
of standard tests, such as the Stand
ford Binet Scale, the Kelly-Trabue
Language scale, the Monroe Silent
Reading test No. 8, Thurston's Syl-
ligozie test A, and the Carnegie In
stitute twenty equivalent probers,
Leopold not only came up to all nor
NAL requirements but was leo per
cent on many and only a shade off
Of that figure on one or two.
Fails In Pictorial Test
"But most remarkable in contrast
to his supernormal general intelli-
gence," says the report, was his
record on pictorial completion test
II, where perceptions and appercep-
lions of some ordinary situations are
pictorially represented and a choice
appropriate filling in our ideas to fit
situations called for. On this test
he failed entirely to apperceive the
gist of some of the represented sit
uatiOnS and made a total record, that
according to standard forms, is low
er than that made by the upper %
per cent of 10.year-old boys and is
only equal to the medium of 12-year-
old boys.
"Thus his ability to mentally see
through a practical situation with
concrete issues, where words and
augmentation are called for, is on
a very 10 wleVel, being almost with
in the limits of a. mental defect for
this important type of mental capac-
ity."
In his summary DIR. Healy says
Leopold is absolutely lacking in most
loyalties. but strongly demanding
loyalty from others. 1t says he is
entirely lacking of any normal ex-
preston showing sympathy, but is
not cruel.
Courageous Mentally
Stubborn in holding opinions, and
particularly in insisting that the
world is all wrong and that he is
right, says the summary of the re-
port. I'm general he has some
capacity for being leader in men
tai ways, but ENTHUSIASTICALLY having
a desire TO be a follower and a slave.
he is courageous in mental but not
physical Spheres
DR.. Healeys report states that side
by side with his intellectual inter-
ests there has been development Of
pernicious personal Interests distinc-
lively indicative OF a disintegrated
and disordered mental life.
He has felt, apparently, at all
times and still feels a complete self
justification" says the report. Leo
pold's conception Of life is thorough
ly childish; it is a play world and
he is play actor among, for him.
the unrealities of the actual, obiec-
tive world"
In going into his home life the
report says:
Except that an ignorant nurse
was a mother substitute during. Ger.
tain formative years, and the bows
parents did not at a preventative
period discover the development of
the pathological features of his
! phantasy life, there seems to be moth
ing explanatory in home conditions 4"