Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-08-22
NEW ATTACKS
ON MURDERERS
DarroW' However, to Come
Back Today in Effort to
Save Chicago Youths

cldleu ITeSSJ - nat Nathan Leo
pold, Jr., and Richard Loeb have
paranoid personalities was the direct
statement made today to Judge John
r. Caverly by Walter Bachrach, one
of the attorneys who are trying to
save from the gallows the admitted
murderers of Robert Franks.
Mr.. Bachrach devoted much of his
argument to an analysis of the medi-
cal testimony, asserting that the
alienists had taken insufficient op-
portunity to study the youths.
He also intimated that those OBJ
servations had been made with the
idea of stopping a defense based
failed to take into consideration
symptoms which would show a
mental disease short of insanity.
Mr.. Bachrach quoted testimony
given by DIR. Hugh Il. Patrick,
state alienist, on cross-examination
to prove his point as to the charac-
ter of the states investigation. He
followed this with quotations from
a book written. by Doctors II. Doug
las Singer and William o. Krohn,
other state alienists. From this
volume he read symptoms of para
noia and pointed out that these had
all been found in the defendants by
the lengthy examinations of the
defense alienists.
I'VE do not claim tnat these boys
are stupid or do not realize where
they are" said Mr.. Bachrach, but
that the fact they are of high intel
lSence and do realize 1t are, taken
in connection with the circumstance,
evidence that they r,e paranoiacs.
Mr.. Bachrach named Loebs use
of wrong premises In MS logic and
Leopold delusions of grandeur and
holding himself a superman, as the
chief corollary facts.
The strictest orders on admission
of the hearing made 1t hard task
for even accredited news writer's to
win admission to the proceedings
today. The corridors and ante
rooms were jammed with would-be
spectators, armed with all sorts Of
credentials but none of them was
good until after the bailiffs had
combed the assemblage of friends
of the judge, or friends of the
attorneys.
Mr.. Bachrach. picking up his
thread of argument stopped yestef-
day at adjournment, began with
discussion of the alienists' testimony
for the state, pointing out that they
did not have the proper surround
ings to make a scientific or inclu-
sive examination,
when DR.. Hugh T. Patrick testi-
fed. for the state he couched his
opinions in the most careful Ian
guage and did nothinU more than
state that in that inadequate exam
ination no proof had been submitted
to him that the defendants were
mentally diseased. The symptoms
of these boys are such that no inn
mediate diagnosis can be made.
Nov what DR.. William o. Krohn
and DIR. H. Douglas Singer, other
state alienists. think about it is best
defined in their own book. This
book on page 1919 says that few lay
men and indeed few physicians have
sufficient knowledge of insanity to
conduct any elaborate examination
or diagnosis of 1t.
A change in plans by attorneys
for the youths brought Mr.. Darrow's
address after the completion of the
opening arguments for their side by
Walter Bachrach, who began yes
terday. His brother Benjamin will
conclude the defense pleas for miti-
CATION of punishment based on "a
degree of mental oISease less than
insanity"
The final summing up or the pros
ecution, by Robert e. Grove, states
attorney. will come after the defense
has concluded, early next week
Then. Judge Caverly has Indicated
he will take several days to weigh
| the theories, facts and arguments
brought out during the long legal
| battle.
The opening of the defense sum-
ming up by Walter Bachrach came
Yesterday after the dramatic elo-
quence of Joseph Savage, assistant
states attorney ended for the nonce
the prosecutions plea for the gal
| lows.
Mr.. Bachrach calmly discussed
the aspects of the case which he
contended pointed to mental disease
how preposterous it appeared that
two sons of millionair-s' should have
killed for any reason, much less fol
the $4,000 ransom they demanded
The very act. he argued was pal
pable proof of mental instability.
He went into the question of th'
vouth of the defendants. likeninl
| them to children and the court to |
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