The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-08-21
LOEB AND LEOPOLD
DECLARED SANE.
State AIienists at Chicago Trial
Find Nothing to Support Plea
of mental Sickness"
PHANTAsY IDEA RIDIcULED
Merely "Air Castles, Same as Every
body Builds" Opinion of DR.. Patrick
"Deliberate Murder" All That Is Abb
normal in Lives of Leopold and Loeb.

"Deliberate Murder" All That Is Abb
normal in Lives of Leopold and Loeb.
Chicago. The prosecution placed
its first two mental pathologists on
the stand at the Franks hearing and
both testified that Richard Loeb and
Nathan F. Leopold. Jr., were sane
when they kidnapped and killed Robert
Franks.
DR.. Hugh t. Patrick and DR.. Archi-
bald Church. Of Chicago, testified that
their examinations of the defendants
led them to believe neither youth was
suffering from a mental Illness" set
UP by the defense as its plea for i'm
prisonment rather than death for the
kidnapers-murderer
They also testified in reply to long
hypothetical questions, including all
the points brought out in behalf OF the
defendants, that a man of such per-
sonality and character would be sane.
The State sought writ of attach
ment from Judge John R. Caverly TO
have Miss Marion Doctor, friend OF
Leopold, brought into court after she
had ignored subpoena.
Judge Caverly swore detective SER
geant as an officer of the court and
sent him with writ of attachment
to bring in Miss Doctor.
Dr. Patrick asserted his conviction
that Loeb was sane, but further testl-
mony by him was cut off when the de-
tense objected to hypothetical Ques-
ton aimed at further analysis OF
Loeb.
DR.. Patrick reaffirmed his conclu-
sion that Loeb was sane in reply to
the hypothetical question asked by
John Sbarbaro, assistant States at
torney.
aside from the commission OF the
crime, l see no evidence Of mental dis
ease" he replied.
Three other long hypothetical ques-
tions, involving the various idiosyn-
cracies of Loeb's personality, and
some unusual physical characteristics,
brought the same response.
81 found nothing in my examination
nor in printed reports to lead me to d
diagnosis Of mental disease" said the
doctor.
Another hypothetical question as to
a man of Loebs intellectual qualities.
and another as to man Of Loeb's i'm
pulsiveness, brought the same replies
that they were attributes of normal
people.
They are perfectly normal reac-
tions," said DR.. Patrick. Everyone
at times is more or less depressed"
81 apprehend that there is no one
who does not have phantasies regard
ing the thing he is interested in. Air
castles in Spain is the more common
term. 1t is a highly normal procedure.
Some persons indulge in it more than
others. This thing of having phan-
tastes for thirty minutes before going
to sleep is not a pathological condi-
ton at all"
DR.. Patrick remarked: Might be-
fore last l had a phantasy Of appear
ing on the witness stand and of the
questions that might be asked me-"
"Phantasies naturally take the line
of the mental attitude Of the individ-
ual," DR.. Patrick testified.
"If a man has artistic abilities his
mind naturally follows subjects along
that line. If scientific he may have
phantasies regarding scientific dis
covery.
81 saw nothing in my contact with
the gentleman" said DR.. Patrick, in
reference to Leopold, whom he had
studied soon after arrest for murder
ing the Franks boy, ito lead me to
suppose he had any mental disease"
Loeb and Leopold sat with stolid,
unchanging faces as they heard the
witness proclaim them sane. Leopold
rested his elbows on a chair and cush-
toned mis- chin with his hand. Loeb,
hands in his lap, stared at the wit
ness. Occasionally. as had been their
habit throughout the hearing. the
youths held whispered conversations.