The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
siderable about split personalities in this case. I
was somewhat surprised to find that my old friend,
who has acted as counsel and as nurse in this case
for the two babes who were wandering in dream-
land, also was possessed of a split personality. I
had heard so much of the milk of human kindness
that ran out in streams from his large heart, that I
was surprised to know he had so much poison in his
system also.
It is wrong, if your Honor please, for the State's
Attorney and his two assistants to refer to these two
perverts, these two atheists, these two murderers, in
language that they can understand. But it is all
right for Mr. Darrow to take an honorable physician,
and to characterize him, without a shred of evidence,
without the slightest foundation, as a peddler of per-
jury, and hurl that cruel charge broadcast over this
land. Where is there anything in this case that war-
rants Clarence Darrow to make such an infamous
charge against Dr. Krohn? I would suggest that if
they want mercy, if they want charity, they practice
a little bit of it.
Treat them with kindness and consideration?
Call them babes? Call them children? Why, from
the evidence in this case, if your Honor please, they
are as much entitled to the sympathy and the mercy
of this court as a couple of rattlesnakes flushed with
venom, coiled, ready to strike. They are no good to
themselves. The only purpose for which they are
of any use is to debase themselves. They are a dis-
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