The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-25
DARR0W IN
LONG PLEAF0R
BOYS LIVES
Continues Address Started
Last Week to Get Life Inn
prisonment for Youths
STATE TO FINISH CASE
Grove Expected to Start
Closing for Defense Late
This Afternoon

Chicago, Aug. 25.-Clarence Oar.
row, dean of the Chicago bar, con.
tinued his impassioned plea for tht
lives of Richard Loeb and Nathan
Leopold, kidnapers and murderers
OF the Frank youth. States Attorne,
Grove expected to start his CLOSING
address late today. He based hi.
plea upon heredity and environment
The weird mad act of these boys wa.
only mentioned incidentally as Oar
row went back Of the crime itself t.
trace the influences that surroundcC
the boys and lead up to the murder
Wealth, he declared, had been the
great handicap throughout the case
In speaking Of Loeb he referred t.
him as "Dickie". He declared tha
the youths phantasy was to com
NIT the perfect crime and that it was
| superimposed upon his brain anC
grew there like hot house plant.
The parents of this boy he SAID
"hight have done better by him il
they had not been wealthy. Nature
is strong and pitiless and works in it.
own mysterious way it's wonders tc
perform"
He drew audible comment from his
audience when he said: "Congress.
men, judges, lawyers, yes even states
attorneys have in their youth done
something that was wrong and tina,
they were not found out is there owr
fortune.
He quoted from Paul's epistle
"When / was child, thought as ;
child, spoke as child, but when
became man / put away childish
things"
"That was written 20 centuries
ago." he said, "but let us not forge,
its great lesson"
The youthful slayers of Robert
Franks were admitted by every
alienist who examined them to be
without emotional reaction, direct
ing force in the mind of any normal
person, with the exception of one
physician "who sells service for cash
and peddles perjury" Clarence s
Darrow, bulwark of counsel defend.
ing Richard Loeb and Nathan +
Leopold, Jr., charged in pleading
mercy for them before Judge John
r. Caverly.
Every one of the psychiatrists
| on both sides of this case told the
court that emotion furnished the
urge and drive in life, that is, with
one exception, DR.. William o. Krohn
who is not an alienist, but an ora.
tor" Mr.. Darrow declared. Or
Krohn, testifying for the state, said
they did have it.; his short oppor-
tunity for examining them was fine,
although the others said it was not
"But DR.. krohn is not physician
His license has been employed to
professionally 60 in and out OF
courts Staying his victims without
regard to their age or sex or cir
cumstances. DR.. Krohn for l6 years
has been peddling perjury and we
all know it,"
Will Finish Today
Mr.. Darrow closed straight two
hour address with this parting shot
Mr.. Darrow swerved from his re.
sumed argument that the boys were
moved by no motive but were pur.
poseless, senseless and childish in
killing Franks. For the final quar-.
ter of an hour, he poured a stream
of critical, personal and sarcastic
eloquence upon DR.. Krohn, who has
ho hn
states corps of alienists. Mr.. Oar.
row said he will end his argumen,
today, whether l am through OF
not"
The aged but vibrant leader OF
half thousand legal battles, agar
held crowded courtroom tense un
der the spell of his thoughts ane
words. He talked straight through
the half holiday session, scarcely
pausing for breath.
With equal attention, Loeb ant
Leopold and their relatives followe,
the argument. Loeb in particular
kept his eyes riveted on the slightl,
stopped man in the baggy gray sui
whose brain and tongue were busy
in trying to save him from the gal
lows. Leopold sat tense and motion
less.
The boys showed no trace of tn,
emotionalism which on Friday sen
them tremulous and fearful from tn,
courtroom. But there was little il
Saturdays proceedings to arous'
such feelings in them.
Proceeding with his argument tina
the crime was $50 senseless as t,
be the possible product of only
diseased mind" Mr.. Darrow pointe,
out to Judge Caverly that each de
tail of the killing, the disposition
of the body, and the action after
wards, took place under conditions
that showed lack of mental balance
He emphasized particularly that tn
kidnapping and killing occurred in tn,
lvery neighborhood Of the boys
homes, where they were known t,
most any one that might pass. HI
also stressed the drive of the deatl
car about the busy south side boule
wards in broad daylight and tina
they followed the main arteries o
travel to the section where they dis
posed of the body.
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