The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
usual; there was no difficulty about that; they took
all that into consideration. They observed his
actions and attitudes in the court room.
The alienists for the State observed them, too.
They saw that he walked all right, that he smiled
a good bit; and when Mr. Crowe raised some kind
of a rumpus, and called attention to his constant
smiling, he changed it. The others did not notice
that he changed it at all. They smile once in a
while, and they do not smile, just depending on how
they feel.
Then they learned from that examination the
thoughts and plans of suicide. They learned of the
thoughts of killing Babe and Dick Rubel, and they
saw from their experienced investigation a lack of
judgment. This we found corroborated by wit-
nesses who were called by the defense.
They found that he was willing to die, that he
considered life complete, but that if he must go to
jail for life, he would be satisfied if he could obtain
a complete newspaper file dealing with the crime and
the trial. So much they found out from Loeb.
I will go rapidly now, with reference to Leopold.
They found out something about Leopold; his sex
life, his early sex life. He had some trouble.
There was a governess there. She was not there as
long as the other. There were endocrine disorders.
There was a phantasy life. There was the king-
slave phantasy. There was a prolongation of the
same phantasy over a period of years.
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