Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-07
ROWE THWARTED
n EFFORT To TRIP
| LEOPOLD AL|EN|S1
iIdish Compact IS Blamed
As Reason for Young
Leopo|d's Fall

tHICAGO, Aug. 4.-By the Asso.
. ted Press. DIR William Healy, OF
ston, testifying as a defense alien
. at the Franks hearing this att
oon, termed Nathan F. Leopold.
a "paranoid personality and
oroughly unbalanced in mental
- but resisted States Attorney
bwe's effort TO have him admit
bpold was insane.
. was another effort by the
te's attorney to have the hearing
punishment of Leopold and Rich
Loeb turned into a jury trial on
plea of legal insanity.
Doesnt what you have said meal,
think he is insane? ASKED
1--WE.
didn't use the term sane or
bne," and do not think in those
MS replied DR.. Healy
Rhere was a visible relaxation OF
crested persons after the defense
-tpast that danger signal of pos
e jury trial.
Childish Pact Blamed
r. Healy. in his morning test
by, asserted IAN lncredloly az
childish compact" bound ire
together and had bearing on
ultimate acts of the youths.
r. Healv testified both had told
they would again go through
the Franks murder if their as
ations and the conditions were
same. He said Loeb told him ne
Ind nothing to deter him." ana
] Leopold had said he would COM
the crime again, 'if it gave him
sure."
S to the conditions Of the "child-
compact" nothing was said IN
IA court, Judge John r. Caverly
he with DR.. Healy that the mat
was unprintable and having him
tie it to the court stenographers
the record.
Nothing that is unfit for publ
lon is coming in here" Judge
erly asserted.
Grove Overrufed Again
r. Healy was TIE second alienist
testify for the defense and his tes-
bny went in over state objection,
lee Caverly again ruling that the
TT had a right to listen to evidence
mitigation of punishment, as he
ruled Friday when the testimony
pr William A. White was permit
marking a new departure in Il
is Jurisprudence.
he eleventh day Of the hearing
he'd at 1888 a. m.
r.. Healy took the stand and I'M
questioning by Clarence S. Oar
chief of defense counsel, iden-
Fd himself as a physician and
biologist of Boston. Robert E.
I'VE. states attorney, offered the
lie objection to testimony as he
in the instance of DR.. White
as he had done previously,
Xge Caverly ovecruled ana DR..
ly proceeded to qualify as an ex-
witness.
r.. Healy said he had made the
ly of the conduct of children and
escents his chief work.
having laid the groundwork for
Healy's expert testimony, Mr.
row asked him to go ahead with
his conclusions, Mr.. Grove insist
he expert give details of the eX-
nation and deductions and Judge
|erly instructed that he should
hat.
Association Began at Fifteen
he association between the two
j began at fifteen years of age,
Healy said. 1T was clear from
udy of the boys separated that
had peculiarities in their men
Ilife. each arrived at peculiarities
different routes and each sup
nented the others already abnor-
tiles in a most unique way.
As Judged by conversation and by
dependence, their compact, their
rrels and their deeds all tend to
" a most strange and patholog-
relation. According to the sto-
of each the idea of their coming
bther for crime purposes began
a very definite way with their
hning of extensive cheating at
sc, which. however, they were
very successful at"
r. Grove objected to the doctor
flying as to generalities and
ing a speech and was sustained
ke court. who admonished DR..
to tell directly what Loeb
and what Leopold said"
Childhood Pact Kept
Concerning Loeb" DR.. Healy de-
ed, there were any number Of
or thefts he committed for the
pose% of apparently getting 81
II. In the matter OF their asso-
ion, I have the boys stories told
hrately about an incredibly alb
h childish compact which bound
In and which bears out in Leo
BIS case particularly the idea of
mental condition.
&Loeb says the association gave
the opportunity of getting some
to carry out his criminalistiC
ginations. In the case of Leopold
direct cause OF his criminalistic
was this particularly childish
ipact,"
Ir. Grove interrupted with a de-
nd that DIR. Healy specify the
[ildish compact" and the psychia-
Il hesitated, then refused to pro-
ID in open court and suggested a
fremeut to the judicial chambers.
Fr Mr.. Groves persistence Judge
ferly ruled nothing unfit for