The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
his companion were together drinking or driving
about. Patient's companion suggested that they
rent a car, so they went to the Morrison Hotel and
registered under the name of Ballard. Letters were
sent to Mr. Ballard at the hotel and a bank account
was opened in his name."
Here is a man who has no emotion; all intellect
and no emotion. His nurse says he was kind and
affectionate, obedient and respectful. Isn't that
emotion? Isn't love one of the greatest emotions
that surge through your heart? Kind and affectionate,
loving. What does the doctor say? " The
bank account was opened in his name," and then
the doctor adds in parenthesis: " When the patient
came to this point in the narrative he looked de-
cidedly interested, drew up his chair, talked almost
in a dramatic whisper with considerable tension, his
eyes constantly roaming the room."
Whom are you going to believe? The doctor,
after he has been coached, taking the stand and say-
ing he has not any emotions, or the doctor in the
first instance when he is making a report that he
does not expect you or me to see?
And this document is offered in mitigation of the
crime. As I said yesterday, probably I have been
confused by the use of all these learned terms in a
foreign language that I did not understand or learn.
But if this is mitigation, I would like to know what
is aggravation.
" The patient's companion " — that is Leopold
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