The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
No man has read or written or thought or worked
as much with the young. . No man knows the adoles-
cent boy as well as Dr. Healy. Dr. Healy began
his research and his practice in Chicago, and was
the first psychiatrist of the boys' court. He was
then made a director of the Baker Foundation of
Boston and is now carrying on his work in connec-
tion with the courts of Boston. His books are
known wherever men study boys. His reputation
is known all over the United States and in Europe.
Dr. Glueck, who was for years the alienist at Sing
Sing, and connected with the penal institutions in
the State of New York; a man of eminent attain-
ments and ripe scholarship.
And Dr. Hulbert, a young man who spent nine-
teen days in the examination of these boys, together
with Dr. Bowman, an eminent doctor in his line
from Boston. These two physicians spent all this
time getting every detail of these boys' lives, and
structures; each one of these alienists took all the
time needed for a thorough examination, without
the presence of lawyers, detectives and policemen.
Each one of these psychiatrists tells this court the
story, the sad, pitiful story, of the unfortunate
minds of these two young lads.
I submit, your Honor, that there can be no ques-
tion about the relative value of these two sets of
alienists; there can be no question that White,
Glueck, Hulbert and Healy knew what they were
talking about, for they had every chance to find out.
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