New Britain herald., 1924-07-28
DEFENSE PLANS ID
 CONSUME 10 DAYS
DarrpW 10 Make Hot Fight Tor
 Chicago Slayers

chlsaEa. July ss,=-slats's AmeFRes RebeH q, cFeRe today pEsssntei the last ef the evidence ailh which he sApeels te ain the extreme penalty for Nathan Leopold, JF,, and Richard Loeb, the eonfeAsea kidnaPPsTs and sia.eFs Of seahg RobeFt Franks,
 Mheh the state fests, the defense sili Put en ihs stand lhe alienisss, who for the last several weeks have been eAsmiBins the two yeuRg stur dents,
 lR that manner Clarence paFFeR, shlsf Of defense counsel. Is expected ro ensa ihe battle to pFeFs "miligatr lng circumstances" battle, which, according to oas of The psyehiatFlsls engaged by the defense, Nill be the n,esl distinguished m medical hls' tory and witch MF, Grove has sall slll be one Of the most helly contest ea dtfshses in legal history
 The first witness today was Police Captain William seheemakeF, q handwriting expert. Following him sill come John Lefinson. ii, orig inslly intended as victim hy Loeb and Leopold, put who unsitlingly es- eapsd them by ahsentinE himself from hts usual haunts.
 Then In \ manner Of eapplng tho peak Of the mountain Of evidence" which Mr. Grove has been piiing up s.nes Wednesday Of last week, will be read the confessions of the two de- fendanx
 10 Da.s for Defense.
 Tks dafanEs aganrdinr fa Ar n.F. TOW, slll consume about 10 days in presenting it's side and to hght the states ayosed plan Of sending the boys 10 the gallows
 Relatives Of the boys may take the stand in their behalf and Loeb and Leopold themselves it was intimated. may testify.
 Questioning Of Leopold would come As s defense reply 10 the testimony of Police Sergeant Cortland. who quoted Leopold as saying that he would plead guilty before a friend Is judge" and so gain life sentence instead Of death by hanging.
 Both Were Sane.
 The report of two defense alien ists, Dr. C. M. Bowman, Boston, and Dr. II. s. Hubert, Chicago, made public Sunday. termed Loeb the lead CT and Leopold the willing slave. Both youths in the opinion of tho doctors, were fundamentally sane al the time they committed the crime. but both were habitual dreamers obsessed with ideas of their importance and daring. Loeb is analyzed as a criminal since the cradle, Loeb is the king" and Leopold the slave" The report says "an absolute, solemn pact is made under which Leopold places himself absolutely under the commands of Loeb" l
 Leopold An Atheist. He believed Loeb superior 10 him. i self and has made him the hero of a | sort of hero worship. He is a phy- l sioal coward, shuns pain, but has no fear of death. He is an atheist. Leopold in his phantasies, saw him self as a slave, who was the strongest man in the world and who. would | often fight for. the champion of his side against the strongest man of the other side and always win, the report | stated.
 In the Harvard school Review for itGV, tHC iSPOit hNbSo shS iSiiS''Ao | poems.
 "Of course, l am the great Nathan, When open my lips let no dog
 bark"
 And in another poem:
 And so our list of juniors has, [ At last been briefly told.
 With one exception only it's The mighty Leopold" In taking up Leopolds estimates Of himself the report says:
 He has always felt himself to be Of the intellectual type. He has al- ways been precocious intellectually. He has steadfnstly tried to make in- telligcnce the most important thing in his life and to reprcss his emo tional side. AS he puts It. My idea was cold -blooded intellect I tried to cut out the emotional"
 Loep the report Says, "indulged in many criminalistic reveries and crim- inalistic practices. There were sev- tral phantasics which occurred with great frequency. One of these was that he would picture himself in a jail.
 T enjoyed being looked at through
 
 criminal" the report said of him. One particular point connected ~ith all this phantasy was that he wa. Cf,e muster mind" who would work out wonderful plan for crime which would stir the country and which would never be solved.
 Leopold disdained women and, all though he had been with them he aid SO because ''the other fellows did." Loeb, however, often thought O. marriage and fas,tlS life. a For his wife, he has said, he would choose sweet and pretty" girl.
 Loeb said that et the time Franks was killed he got great excitement great heart beating, faster, which was pleasant"
 When Franks bed from the blows or his head, Loeb said, Leopold cried: "'Thls is terrible and l told him 1t !: was all right and joked and laughed. , possibly to calm myself too"