Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-08-18
GLANDS AFFECT
LIFE, IS CLAIM
Concluding Testimony at the
Franks Trial Started To-
day-Decision Is Near

| CHICAGO. Aug. 1S (By The AS.
ISOLATED Press) ).-Endocrine glands
affect the emotional life according
to an admission which Clarence s.
Darrow. chief counsel for Nathan
Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb
drew today from DR.. II. Douglas
Singer. on cross-exa mination in the
Franks hearing. The answer came
reluctantly in this form:
Are the endocrine glands part OF
the emotional life?
"Yes siri"
do they affect it?"
IF they are part of 1t, they must
affect it."
"Why not saw SO in the first
placer"
"Well, I thought my answer more
complete than your question"
The exchange was typical of @
spirited contest between the attorney
and witness. Such terms as lego
centric" "psychopathic personality, "
"psychosis" and pathological" struck
some of the court fans as comical and
bail!ffs had to warn such persons
several times to maintain composure
The cross examination was di-
rected toward an attempt to get from
the state alienisr an admission that
physical characteristics and mental
processes which the experts have
found in the defendants were signs
of approaching insanity or at least
mental disease" the doctor SHE'D
away from mention of the latter but
readily discussed the former when
presented to him in an academic
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were given by DIR. Singer as "signs
of insanity" but he qualified this by
adding Sometimes" He once ac-
knowledged that Loeb's habit of i'm
agining himself a master criminal
was "in a sense halluc,nation.
Mr.. Darrow's first question OF
DIR. Singer was whether he had found
any evidence whatever of "pananoid
personalities" in the defendants.
The doctor said first there was
"some similarity but the main feat
ures were lacking" Then the attor-
ney said: ibid you find any evil
dence?". The question and aswer
were read and after a bout of spar
ring the witness named selfishneas
and moineering personality as such
evidence.
The testimony went into the sigfi-
canoe of self-satisfaction:D DR.. Singer
said 1t was evidence of paranoid per-
sonality and acknowledged he had
found 1t in Leopold and Loeb. Exag-
geration of self-importance. consid-
Grafton of self as a superman. prid-
ing oneself o ncontrol of emotion
were all common in paranoids." DR.
Singer said.
Mr.. Darrow was conducting the
questioning from a book on paranoid
written by the witness. DR.. Singer
said that the real test of a paranoic
was the "egocentric" character. He
Acknowledged also that paranoics
learn rapidly.
"While they learn readily and get
through school easily there is no
grasp of the relations of the mater
ia1 learned to the values in life,
read Mr.. Darrow from DIR. Singer'a
hook.
The witness said this was correct
as applies to the egocentr.c person
ality. The attorney and doctor
spared over application of this char
acteristic to paranoids, the latter
trying to distinguish between lego
centric" and psychopathic" person.
alities.
After they had finally agreed that
the terms were closely related Mr..
Darrow turned to the record of the
dirct examination.
Before DIR. Korhn is called to the
stand today the cross examination of
DIR. Fl. d. Singer. another state
alienist. will be finished. Saturday
DR.. Singer introduced the term "schi-
zophrenic" to denote a split per-
sonality and which the defense
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