The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
he said, " that is nothing, Judge; I have been around
that location two hundred times. Why, it is only
last Saturday I was out there with George Lewis,
I was out there with Sidney Stein, and, Judge, on
Sunday, I made another visit; I was there again
Sunday with Sidney Stein, and it is more than likely
that I dropped my glasses from my pocket."
And then he was asked, " Well, Nathan, you
stated that you have not worn your glasses for four
or five months. What were you doing with your
glasses in your pocket if you were not wearing
them? " And he said that the bird suits, the suits
that he used on his ornithology expeditions, were
hanging in the closets sometimes two or three
months not being pressed, and that in all probabil-
ity he had left the glasses in one of these suits.
And he remembered in particular on this Sunday
that he wanted to shoot some bird and the bird
was over, your Honor, in Hyde Lake, and he remembered
going across that particular spot, and that
he ran from the direction of Wolf Lake toward
Hyde Lake, and that he stumbled while he was
trying to shoot that bird, and that that must have
been the time that he lost his glasses.
And then he was asked to put the glasses in his
pocket; then he was asked to trip on the floor and
he was asked to stumble on the floor, and he tripped
and stumbled and he fell and the glasses still remained
in his pocket. And then he was asked to
remove his coat, your Honor, and then he was asked
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