The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
should attempt to fool your Honor in an effort to
save their lives.
But let us continue from the Hulbert-Bowman
report: " On the other hand there is a certain legal
advantage in minimizing the broadcasting of his
episodes, even keeping them secret from his attor-
neys, examiners or relatives. Consequently no
great effort should be made to bring forth details
which he wilfully suppresses."
This is Dr. Bowman and Dr. Hulbert advising
Dr. White, Dr. Glueck and Dr. Healy.
Now, I quite agree with Dr. Hulbert that when
he wrote this report he never thought it was going
to be read by the State's Attorney.
" His phantasies usually occurred between the
time of retiring and the time sleep comes over him.
He estimates that this period was on an average of
a half an hour's duration."
Not wandering around all day, Mr. Darrow, in a
daydream and indulging in phantasies, walking up
and down the street, snapping fingers, pointing out
buildings, waving the gang here and there; not a
phantasy that became a part of his life.
Dr. Hulbert and Dr. Bowman said that the phan-
tasies usually occur a half hour before he goes to
sleep. That is the time your Honor and I and
everybody else have phantasies. When we get into
bed we dream dreams of what we are going to ac-
complish and we scheme and plan, and that is
exactly what Dickie Loeb did. All this other stuff
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