Evening star., 1924-08-03
LEOPOLD AND LOEB
FOOLED ALIENIST,
PROSECUTOR HINTS
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and in Loebs trying to keep secret,
for the protection of his father, an
admission that he and Leopold had
planned to kill the grandson of his
fathers business associate, Julius
Rosenwald, the youths had been ac-
tuated by a concern mot possible in
child of five"
Declares Trait Common.
Again Mr.. Grove asked: You have
called Loeb child of five emotion
ally. How do you account for the
fact that for part of this time he
could lay aside this characteristic,
pursue his university studies and ap-
pear so normal to everybody that
even his immediate family was star
tied when this crime was fastened on
him? Will you explain how such an
emotional infantile character could
be SO normal in all his human con-
tacts?"
unfortunately that is a common
experience with people of this type,
replied DR.. White. These undevel-
oped emotional youngsters enjoyed
the affections Of teachers and parents
because of their childlike character
istics, which attracted love. The very
nickname Dickie' would indicate the
attitude which his parents mad for
him; that he was lovable youngster.
That is the very characteristic
hot
ing on beneath the surface and are not
visible to the unframed eye. We
are dealing with the kind of situation
all the time, and are trying to show
people how to look for danger sig
nails underneath rather than be mis-
led by what appears to be a smooth
and untroubled surface
Capacity Hampered.
DR.. White was asked if Loeb. who
appeared normal to his university
teachers and fellow students through
out the months in which he and Leo
pold had planned their joint crime
had the power to choose whether to
carry out that plan. Mr.. Grove
wanted a Eyes" or mo" answer to
this, but failed to get it, the witness
replying:
wen, he did not avoid doing i,
and whether he could have avoided
the homicide is largely a metaphysi-
cal question. The powers that were
at work within him impaired very
materially his capacity to choose"
WAS he any different in this re-
spect from any other criminal!
asked Mr.. Grove.
That is another Of your vague
terms" retorted DR.. White. can,
talk about that or any other criminal
I don't know them all and a crimina
is not an entity that is clearly de-
| fined"
DR.. White reiterated that whether
Loeb could have avoided the crime
was IAN unanswerable type of ques-
| tion," that Dickie knew intellectually
| what was against the law, but had nc
adequate feeling toward it's mora
| error.
| to refrain from killing?" persisted
IT don't know" said the expert.
| Mr.. Grove asked about Loeb's
"split personality" and tried to get
the doctor to say whether he is
afflicted with dementia praecox. OBJ
| jections switched the questioning
away from that subject and through
| out the quizzing Judge Caverly up.
held the defense in barring any men
tion of insanity" as applied to the
| defendants.
| Much the same line of questioning
| developed similar ideas as to Leo.
| pold's disregard for the legal an6
moral wrongs involved in the homi-
eide Toward the end of the exami-
/ doctor
| If he had ever read TON Sawyer
and "Huckleberry Finn" DR.. White
| smiled reminiscently as he answered
"Oh, many, many years ago."
We'll. do you think that the child
! ish phantasies of Tom Sawyer and
poor old Jim indicated criminalistiC
tendencies?" asked Mr.. Grove.
The doctor was amused by the ques.
| ton, finally saying that his recollec-
| ton of Tom and Huck was very
vague and that anyway they were
| literary fctions" perhaps had never
existed.
Not to Call Principals.
Clarence Darrow, chief counsel fol
the defense, announced late today
that Leopold and Loeb would not be
called in their own defense.
Haven't they talked enough?
countered the veteran attorney.
Mr.. Darrow said DR.. William Healy
of Boston and DIR. Bernard Glueck OF
New York in turn will be the next
witnesses called by the defense. He
said he thought the defense would
not take much longer than next week
The young defendants were unusu-
ally silent and serious today and
their whispered conversqtfens- and
smiles were few.