The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
bosh that the preceding doctor had testified to as
distinguishing matter; and finally the Grand Old —
the gland old — Man of the Defense, Clarence Dar-
row, seeing how absolutely absurd it was, sub-
stituted as a defense in this case his peculiar
philosophy of life, of which we will talk later on.
They put on Dr. Hulbert to testify about certain
glands, ductless and otherwise ; and your Honor
heard an eminent authority upon that subject. Dr.
Woodyatt, and he said there is so little known
about the pineal gland and about these other mat-
ters and things that this other doctor testified to so
glibly, that nobody knew what effect it would have
upon the mind of a person, that a calcified gland ex-
isted in a sane, sound mind, the same as it did in
a diseased mind; and that all the testimony of Dr.
Hulbert upon that proposition was as illuminating
and valuable as that of Old Doc Yak with his
Teddy bears and Buffalo Bill suits.
If these men are insane, I ask your Honor why
they were instructed not to let our alienists ex-
amine them further.
Mr. Darrow: I object to that statement; there is
no such evidence, and no evidence that you ever
asked for it.
Mr. Crowe: It is in evidence, if your Honor
please, that when they were in my office Monday
and Dr. Singer was there, they replied to all ques-
tions: " On advice of counsel we decline to answer."
If the defense was a heavy cancer, why should not
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