The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
bank account at the Hyde Park State Bank under the
name of Morton D. Ballard and gave that as the bank
reference? A. I think it was.
Q. Was it intellect, or boyish, childish fantasy working,
when they took the bloody rope that they had
wrapped the body in and saturated it with gasoline and
took it to the lake to burn? A. I think it was their
intellect.
Q. Was it intellect or fantasy working, when they
attempted to rub the bloodstains from the rented car?
A. Intellect, I believe.
Q. In other words, every detail of this crime is a
crime of intellect, and not a fantasy? A. I think so.
Q. And they are above the average intellect?
A. One of them is; the other is not.
Q. The other is not? A. I think he is just about
average.
Q. And so superintellect in one case and normal
intellect in one case planned and carried out every de-
tail of this crime? A. I think so.
Q. Was it intellect or childish fantasy that caused
Leopold to try to divert suspicion prior to his arrest to
other persons? A. It was his intellect that worked.
Q. Was it intellect or fantasy that caused Leopold to
lie for two days to the State's Attorney of this county
when first brought in? A. Intellect.
Q. Was it intellect or fantasy that caused Loeb when
brought to the State's Attorney to lie for a considerable
period of time? A. I think it was his intellect.
Q. Now were there any other emotions acting in conjunction
with the intellect when they attempted to cover
up this crime by the various things they did and by the
various lies they told? A. It would be hard for me
to say whether there was or not, or whether it was, very
largely, an intellectual process.
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