The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

Th& Loeb-Leopold Case
and create a suspicion that he might be mentally
diseased. But such dissembling is impossible where
the examination is conducted under conditions such
as existed when the examinations were made by the
defense experts; examinations covering a long period
of time, not made by one expert alone, but made by
four, and where the four experts arrive at a common
understanding as to what the facts are — five ex-
perts, because Dr. Bowman also examined these
boys, and, although he did not testify, his report is
in evidence. The book of Doctors Singer and
Krohn corroborates the evidence of Doctor White.
So that you have the verity in the different
examinations as to facts arrived at by five experts
covering a long period of time in the case of the
defense's examination as against the examination
made by the State's experts in the instance of Drs.
Patrick, Church and Krohn late one afternoon, and
by Dr. Singer the next day, after the boys had been
turned over to the sheriff and taken from the cus-
tody of the State's Attorney by means of a habeas
corpus writ, and when they were brought into Mr.
Crowe's office and declined to answer any questions
about anything because they had been told by their
lawyers not to answer questions.
The impression is sought to be created that be-
cause these boys were able to repeat parrotlike in
answer to the questions asked by Drs. Krohn and
Singer, that they respectfully refused to answer,
upon advice of counsel, therefore, there was no evi-
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