The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
boys who had been in the possession of the State's
Attorney's office for sixty hours; they were sur-
rounded by policemen, were surrounded by guards
and detectives and State's Attorneys; twelve or fif-
teen of them, and here they told their story. Of
course this audience had a friendly attitude toward
them. I know my friend Judge Crowe had a
friendly attitude because I saw divers, various and
sundry pictures of Prosecutor Crowe taken with
these boys. When I first saw them I believed it
showed friendship for the boys, but now I am in-
clined to think that he had them taken just as a
lawyer who goes up in the country fishing has his
picture taken with his catch.
The boys had been led doubtless to believe that
these people were friends. They were taken there,
in the presence of all this crowd. What was done?
The boys told their story, and that was all.
Of course, Krohn remembered a lot that did not
take place — and we would expect that of him; and
he forgot much that did take place — and we would
expect that of him, too. So far as the honest witnesses
were concerned, they said that not a word
was spoken excepting a little conversation upon
birds, and the relation of the story that they had
already given to the State's Attorney; and from
that, and nothing else, both Patrick and Church said
they showed no reaction as ordinary persons should
show it, and intimated clearly that the commission
of the crime itself would put them on inquiry as to
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