The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-06


encountered.
II asked him." said the doctor,
whether he had any objection If
told on the stand some of the
more intimate little things Of his
life that he had related to me, and
he told me, No, I'd rather hang
she thinks that he is a heroic.
If somewhat tragic figure, that some
people despise him, and some prob.
ably admire him, but he considers
himself as a Napoelon on st.
Helena.
Leopold expounded to Doctor
Glueck in his conversations the
same philosophy" that he expound-
ed to the other doctors-that any.
thing that gave him pleasure was
| right, even to kidnapping and muir
der.
II asked him, well, don't you.
realize that such a philosophy is
leading you straight to destruction
and he said he didn't care.
He told me-" continued Glueck,
that II he went 10 the gallows he
would ask his father that he be
allowed to make q final statement
of his position, to show that he
had been consistent to the end
Argued ON Everything.
He argued with me about every
thing, with persistency that l
have never seen in any cases except
those of disordered mentality"
Regarding Leopolds phaHtGsy life,
his dreamings and imaginings, the
alienist said that "it is very remark
able that this boy. with his. fine IN
tellect and developed mind, would
go to his home daily during the last
few years and there indulge his
mind in these phantasies."
Finally, he gradually came to in
Producing his phantasy life into real
life. l won't go into details of this
phantasy life"
We'll" interrupted State Attor-
ney Grove, 'inasmuch as you have
based your conclusions largely on
these phantasies, 1 insist that you
go into them"
Doctor Glueck then recounted the
famous king slave phantasy previ-
6usly related by his predecessors,
how Leopold considered himself in.
his mental dreaming a very power
full slave, serving king, who i'll
this case was Loeb. He pictured
himself as saving Loeb's life, Of dy-
ing for the king, and serving the
king in many devious ways.
AFFECT Devotion.
HE told me of his abject devo-
ton to Loeb" said the doctor. HE
even told me he was jealous of the
food and drink that Loeb consumed
because he could not come as close
to Loeb as did that food and drink.
"These mental pictures, this
phantasy life, had a great vividness
for him. His unusually energetic
mental life had no effect on the
vividness of this phantasy life.
He told me that in his early
phantasying he was always seeing
the crucifixion, always seeing PEG.
pie nailed down.
Il was interested in going over
his college note book and I found
on the margins of many Of them
drawings, usually depicting the
cr1ucifixion. These, of course, were
done while his mind wis wander.
ing in the classroom.
"As l go over these things, this
delusional transformation Of his
personai+r. l cannot escape the
conclusion that he was heading for
self.destruCLlOr.
Leopold, to my mind, is and has
been for some time developing
paranoic personality, in which there
is the element of pathological eX,
aggeration of his ego. 1t may be
he is on the way to developing
sychOsis--mental disorder.
Crime Due to Association.
Considering them both together,
this crime is incomprehensible un.
less there Is considered their re.
lationship. Each ore brought into
his association a background Of
curious. delusions, and active enor.
geuic mental life.
The thing that brought them
together offered them each a kind
of satisfaction which they could
not have had without each other
'"To Loeb, the association meant
that he was to get willing &C.
.complice in The carrying out . of
his grand. lofty criminal ideas.
Leopold found in Loeb an Cd.
portunity to give himself in abject
slavery, in this delusional, phan.
tasy life OF his"
The peculiar sexual association
of the pair, Doctor Glueck did not
think very Important. Like Doctor
Healy he characterized 1t as
childish"
This Franks crime" said Doc.
tor Glueck finally, was the natural
outcome o. the coming together
OF these two pathUlogically dis.