The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
they bare their breasts and let every doctor and
layman look on and see it? If there is a diseased
mind why tell Dr. Singer: " On advice of counsel,
we respectfully decline to answer " ? Are they hon-
est in their defense? Or are they trying to put some-
thing over on the court?
Mr. Darrow: Pardon me. There is nowhere any
evidence that Dr. Singer ever asked any questions,
or that they were ever asked for any examination
by Dr. Singer or by any other alienist which they
did not allow.
[A recess was here taken until the following morning
when Mr. Crowe resumed his argument.]
Mr. Crowe: May it please your Honor, last night
I was talking about the State alienists and the three
wise men from the East who came here to testify
that the little " Babe," or the little babes, rather,
were suffering from a diseased mind. But no one
has been able to give this mental disease a name.
And yet everyone who got on the stand for the de-
fense pretended to know all that there was in the
books and a great deal that never got into the books.
I was surprised that Old Doc White wasn't able to
name the peculiar mental disease he says exists here,
because he in the past has been able to invent names
for diseases which did not exist. If your Honor will
recollect, I questioned him as to whether or not he
was the same William A. White who testified in the
case of Gonzales vs. the United States, and he said
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