The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
learned, that they took into consideration every bit
of Dr. Hulbert's report, just the same as the three
wise men from the East did. Not only that; they
took into consideration all the testimony of these
three wise men. They didn't overlook a word; they
didn't overlook the fact that one shaved every day
and the other one shaved twice a week; they even
considered the little Teddy and the cowboy suit.
And from it all they found no evidence of mental
disease.
The only explanation I can give of the testimony
of Dr. White is that he is in his second childhood.
I would hate to think a man of his attainments
would prostitute his profession and prostitute his
learning to tell the story that he told here.
One of the very significant things the eminent
doctor says was that little Dick had his picture
taken in a cowboy's uniform when he was four
years of age; and that is a distinguishing thing and
stamped him as one of diseased mind, with homici-
dal tendencies; and I saw a shudder go through
every woman in the court room that has a " kid "
four or five years of age, and I began to think
of my four " kids." I suppose Marshall Field's
sale of cowboy suits must have fallen off at
least one hundred thousand since that doctor testi-
fied.
When the other doctors saw how ridiculous and
silly it all was, they said they paid no attention to
it; and one by one, each doctor discarded this silly
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