The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
DARROW TO REST
 HIS CASE TODAY
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will seek to advance a plausible ex- planation of the gland-dream testi- mony; one designed to convince Justice Caverly that the statements of de- fense alienists constitute, no reason why the defendants should not be hanged.
 Grove will not know until court opens Monday whether Miss Susan Laurie, a former sweetheart of Leo pold, will take the stand against him. He had asked her to testify for the prosecution but after his request she journeyed to the home of a friend in Milwaukee. Assistant States Attorney Robert McAfillan, found her there last Saturday and handed her summons to court. However, since she was out of the jurisdiction of the Illinois courts, the summons had no value.
 McAIillan urged the young woman to return to Chicago and appear as a witness. She replied that she did not want to testify against her former 1 friend, but she finally said that she would consider the matter and would let the states attorney know Monday. If she fails to appear Monday Grove said he would make no further effort to induce her to testify.
 Seek Former Associates
 The states attorney is conducting a diligent search for former friends and associates of the prisoners who are willing to testify concerning their past conduct. He has not had much sue cess in his search, he said. Curiously enough, many of the young men and young women who have been interview ed by detectives said they still had confidence in Loeb and Leopold; that they believed the boys either insane or that there was some explanation of the crime which had not come to light.
 Some of the young Chicago univer- sity students who were with Loeb and Leopold almost daily told detectives they believed perhaps the youths had been protecting someone or concealing the exact truth about the killing of the Franks boy.
 None of these youths, however, could produce concrete facts to justify their beliefs and, as far as the authorities have been able to determine, the truth of the case has been told in court.
 May End Saturday
 Unless some unexpected situation develops this week, the state will pre- sent most of its rebuttal evidence by Saturday. Grove believes that the di- rect and cross examination of his alienists will take up most of the week. He does not think that the presentation of testimony will be fin- ished before Monday or Tuesday of the following week.
 As soon as the prosecution and de- fense finish their closing arguments. Justice Caverly expects to order a continuance of at least q week. He be- lieves it will take him that long to finish his study of the evidence. The decision as to whether the youths shall die or go to prison rests solely with him.
 No record for appeal is being kept of the proceedings and this, according to attorneys on both sides, means that no appeal may be taken. The one loophole left for the defense, in the event Justice Caverly imposes the death penalty, both sides agree, is for Darrow to introduce a petition alleg- ing that the slayers became insane after sentence.
 On such an insanity petition Justice Caverly would be compelled to draw q jury and direct a trial on the sanity issue. If the slayers then were found insane, they would be committed to an asylum, until such time as they became sane. If they should recover their sanity, under the Illinois laws, the death sentence would have to be carried but.