The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
it there for the night, so that anybody might see
and might know. They took it into the garage the
next day and washed it, and then poor little Dickie
Loeb — I shouldn't call him Dickie, and I shouldn't
call him poor, because that might be playing for
sympathy, and you have no right to ask for sym-
pathy in this world. You should ask for justice,
whatever that may be;
know.
and only State's Attorneys
And then in a day or so we find Dick Loeb with
his pockets stuffed with newspapers telling of the
Franks tragedy. We find him consulting with his
friends in the club, with the newspaper reporters;
and my experience is that the last person that a
conscious criminal associates with is a reporter. He
even shuns them more than he does a detective, be-
cause they are smarter and less merciful. But he
picks up a reporter, and he tells him he has read a
great many detective stories, and he knows just how
this would happen and that the fellow who tele-
phoned must have been down on 63rd Street, and
the way to find him is to go down on 63rd Street and
visit the drug stores, and he would go with him.
And Dick Loeb pilots reporters around the drug
stores where the telephoning was done, and he talks
about it, and he takes the newspapers with him, and
he is having a glorious time.
Talk about scheming. Yes, it is the scheme of
disease; it is the scheme of infancy; it is the scheme
of fools; it is the scheme of irresponsibility from the
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