The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
instances, unless he imagined that the doctor was
previously aware of those instances. When ques-
tioned about this later he said he had failed to men-
tion certain things because he thought it advisable
not to mention them or because he had been advised
not to mention them."
After some guileless attorney, studied in the medi-
cine and grounded in it probably more than he is
in the practice of criminal law, some doctor or some
member of the family had gotten these two Smart
Alecs and had trained and prepared them and
told them what to tell the doctors and what not
to tell them, then they bring out these doctors
and say: " Now, go in and listen to that story
and if, after you listen to the story they tell you,
you don't think they are crazy, then you must be
crazy."
" His older brother Allen does not know of these
untold stories, but the patient says he will not tell
them unless Allen advises him so to do."
What are these untold stories? They were not
going to lie in order to fool the doctors, so that the
doctors could fool your Honor. No. They were
perfectly frank. As Dr. White said: "They didn't
lie to me and they wouldn't lie to a man as smart as
I am." They had no thought when they were talk-
ing to the doctors as to their defense in this case,
none whatever. They might as a result of a childish
phantasy murder little Bobby Franks as they wan-
dered along in the dark, but God forbid that they
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