The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
ceived evidence of them from the State's Attorney
before any designing person could have had the
slightest opportunity of talking with him. As to
the delusions of Leopold as a suf)erman, and of
Dickie Loeb as a superman, we get evidence that
dates back long prior to the commission of the
crime.
Your Honor will remember, if it is necessary to
recall it, that when the argument occurred in the
office of the State's Attorney on that notable Sunday
of June 1, 1924, an argument between Dick Loeb
and Babe Leopold — that is what the State's At-
torney was calling them — in which Leopold tried
to convince the State's Attorney that it was Loeb
who struck the blows with the chisel and sat in the
rear seat of the car, in order to prove it, he called
attention to the fact that Richard Loeb was reading
detective stories, playing detective, and had no-
tions of being a criminal, a Master Criminal and
so forth.
Your Honor will remember the letter dated
October 9 from Leopold to Loeb. On the next day,
after receiving a reply to this letter, Leopold again
wrote to Loeb as follows:
October 10, 20th Century Limited, 1:45 ^•^^
Dear Dick: I want to thank you first of all for your
kindness in granting my request of yesterday. I was
highly gratified to hear from you for two reasons, the
first sentimental and the second practical. The first
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