Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-12
LEOPOLD PAINTED
AS DREAM VICTIM;
DRIVEN INTO CRIME
Diseased Endocrine Glands
Blamed for Fantasy by
Defense AIienist

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! Robert Franks.
The last Of four eminent specialists
! through whom the defense has at
! tempted to prove the youths are
"mentally sick" spent the entire two
| hour session of court on the witness
! stand today. He dissected Leopold
personality as he had that of Loeb
| yesterday. Leopold, he said, was TT
mentally to fall in with Loeb's plan
! to Commit the perfect crime be-
cause of the mental state to which
he had been reduced through physi-
| cal deficiencies; failure of certain
! glands to function normally and
strange "king-slave" fantasy which
/ had persisted from childhood.
Having put Loeb's personality TO
| vivisection yesterday, the mental
| patholog;st, DIR. H.. S. Hubert, of
| Chicago, dealt almost solely with
| Leopold today.
''The psychiatrie. cause for the
Franks crime is not to be found in
either boy alone, but in an interplay
| of their friendship he said.
Kind by Nature, He Says
/ Leopold was described as by ma
ture kind, and an almost unwilling
partner in the murder of the four
teen-year- old Franks boy. Only Leo
| pold's obeisance necessary to his
dream king" kept him a partner
even after his intellect told him com
mission of a perfect crime was i'm
possible, testified DIR. Hubert. Leo
pold wanted to postpone the kidnap-
ing and murder and go to Europe,
added the psychiatric.
Illustrating to Judge Caverly by
use of large X-ray photographs of
Leopold's anatomy, DR.. Hubert
pointed out what he said were CLAN
dular Irregularities He mentioned
the pineal, pituitary, adrenal and
thyroid glands. He described the
functional irregularities as respon-
sible for Leopold's admittedly far adj
vanced intellect and the sitting of
his emotional growth after the age
of seven or eight years.
DIR. Hubert said that the Xray
disclosed that the cartilage between
the plates of Leopold's skull had
become bone, unusual in one of nine
teen years old, as the process gen
orally develops after the age OF
thirty.
The witness veered from his usual
solemnity as he smilingly described
certain black lines on Leopold's skull
as having been caused by 'prepara-
tons used to keep his hair in or.
der"
The youths intimate association
was not always a pleasure TO them,
asserted the witness, but he declared
leach boy felt inadequate to carry
on the life most desired unless some
one else in life was found to COM
plement him. -"
Early Windup Seen
Leopold wanted a superior for
companion and Loeb wanted some
one to emulate him." said the doc
tor as he analyZed the alliance that
led to the murder Of Franks
DR.. Hubert still was on the stand
! when the hearing was adjourned at
noon until 1890 a. m. Monday
Clarence barrow, chief of defense
counsel, stated after adjournment
that possibly four additional wit
nesses would be called and the de-
Tense rest its plea for mitigation of
punishment Monday afternoon.
Allan and Jacob Loeb. brother and
uncle, respectively. Of Richard Loeb
| and Foreman Leopold. brother of
Nathan and the Loeb family chauf-
feur, would be the last defense wit
nesses, Mr.. barrow Indicated. He
said thatNhey would be called upon
I to Identify certain exhibits and not
/ to give extensive testimony. That
, would prohibit extensive cross-exami-
nation as nothing not remarked
J upon in direct examination can be
/ brought out by the state
immediately upon the defense >
resting, Robert E. Grove. states
attorney, Will launch a vigorous
rebu5tal in furthering his demand
for the death penalty for Loeb and
! Leopold
Former friends. university in
structors. servants in the Leopold
and Loeb families. and prominent
women. some of whom were pupils
OF Leopold in his ornitholo2icaI
class, are named on a list of fifty
prospective witnesses announced by
Mr.. Grove as having been summon
ed TO testify that the youths are
sane and constitute normal actors
in what he has called a perfect
hanging case"
LeOpOlds Best Girr Called
Rebuttal will require possibly four
days, the prosecutor indicated. Pros
receive time needed for the state
/ was reduced today when Mr.. Grove
agreed with Mr.. Darrow not to call
more than four alienists if the de-
tense would cut off expert testi-
/ Of
On the states rebutta witness
list appears the name of Miss Su-
I san LURE. University of CHICAGO
student with Leopold. and said to
have been the only girl for wh1m
! he ever expressed any feeling 1t
1 was to Miss Lurie that Leopold is
alleged to have remarked before he
/ was arrested for the Franks murder
I that It would be a good joke were
/ she to surrender him as the muir
derer and claim the $1,000 in re-
wards.
The minds of those interested in
! the case. was as usually. burdened
/ with crank letters today. Judge
I CaVerly got letters from throughout
! the country. the vote" today being
/ largely against the youths.
/ Prosecutor Grove received a small
/ bON NOIitSiiIlIiI- tISuI MAJ DleS. t<tu
wrapped in tissue paper. and the
whole carrying the note: For the
Riddles. Babe and Dickie.'
| Loeb and Leopold maintained their
usual composure in the court room
| today. Both smiled and greeted rel
! atives as they were led in, and,
| from time to time. as has been
their wont. found plenty Of amuse-
ment in the proceedings.