Evening star., 1924-07-28

was oldblooded intellect / tried to
cut out the emotional!'
Loeb, the report of him says, in
dulsed in many criminalistic reveries
| were several phantasies which oc-
| CURED with great frequency. One Of
these was that he would picture him.
self in a Jail.
the bars because | was a famous
| criminal" the report said of him.
One particular point connected with
all this phantasy was that he was
out p wonderful plan for crime
=. which would stir the country and
which would never be solved.
; The report says that Loeb planned
| tails and that Leopold acted the part
of willing slave in carrying out the
| orders of his companion. Both youths
| are fundamentally sane. the report
sets forth.
At the age Of II, the psychiatrists
have determined, Loeb first conceived
OF the idea of becoming a criminal.
He would lie abed dreaming of being
feeling of self-pity. From then on
he stole and lied. the alienists assert
He began with little things, such as
telling his governess deliberate un-
truths when he knew that they would
get him out of unpleasant situations
or help him to escape punishment
Thief Mt Is.
Loeb's first criminal leanings, the
| report continues, were those of the
ordinary boy, the theft of cookies and
so forth. At the age of Is, however.
he stole automobiles for excitement,
two planned to rob a wine cellar in
North Shore suburb, but failed
when they were unable to gain en-
trance to the house. While at the
University of Michigan they helped
themselves to students property at
fraternity houses.
Loeb's intense fondness for books
was attributed by the mentality
specialists as a principal factor in
determining his later course in life.
| a little boy and held him in a padded
| room of the attic in the boys home,
the alienists report, set the germ of
the Franks murder in Loeb's mind.
The report quotes him as saying,
concerning that tale:
II think this started me off on the
whole thing"
The two wealthy students first con-
| naping plot when they were return
| ing from Ann Arbor, Mich.
They decided to make Richard
Rubel, University of Chicago stu
| dent, their victim. Both liked .,ubel,
but because they feared the elIcr Mr..
spoil their chances of collecting ran
som, and not because of their fond
| ness for their intended victim. did
| they discard him as a possibility.
Would Victimize Family.
Talk then turned upon Thomas
Loeb. 11-year-old brother of Richard,
and then they considered his father.
when practical obstacles appeared 1t
was not a matter OF sentiment, the
report states, but the boys feared
that their attendance at the funeral
and other matters which would re-
quire them to stay at home would
produce some flaw in their plans to
evadA detection.
Other possible victims were con-
sidered, including the elder Leopold
and also, in general way, a young
cision finally centered upon a young
boy such as Robert Franks.
In describing the actual act of
striking Franks Loeb said: He was
hit on the head several times. He
bled l got great excitement,
great heart beating, which was pleas
ant. 1 was cool and self-possessed.
| had quite a time quieting down
Leopold.
81 cooled him down in 5 minutes
after we got him CFranks) in the
back seat, thinking him still alive.
JOked ns BOY Died.
HE bled. Leibold said: This is
terrible, this is terrible l told him
it was all right and laughed and
joked. possibly to calm myself, too"
Loeb is basically a dreamer, the
alienists discovered. His reveries
have pictured him as a world famous
detective, a pirate leader, or a sue
cessful, but extremely shrewd busi-
ness man. He was never anything
but the leader and always had plenty
of onlookers to applaud him.
When he called upon woman ac-
quaintance shortly before the Franks
murder. he told her .he was a boot
logger and he showed her a bullet
hole in his shirt that he had .'rc-
ceived in a shooting scrape in a
saloon"
The tale was one or pure fabrica-
tion, the alienists declaro
Leopold, on the other hand is tho
dreaming slave. He is able to invent
unusual situations wherein he is to
take the most dramatic parta. but al
ways as the staggering, Dragging
handy man. aided by the moral sup
port of some one upon whom he could
depend.
These opposite natures of the two
companions. brought together coin
cidently, first led the pair to trivial
crimes, to setting fire to shacks and
to stealing automobiles, ito see if
their keys would work." and at last
to the Franks kidnapping and murder
Such. in the last analysis, is the sub
stance Of the alienists' report on the
mental condition of the confessed
slayers.
The relation Of master and slave