The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
to pick up that coat by the tail, and when he did
the glasses fell out of the pocket. That was the way
it had actually occurred. Loeb had so handed the
coat to Leopold at the culvert.
The defendant Leopold was told that an Underwood
typewriter had been recently seen at his home,
and he said, if so it must have belonged to one of
four boys who had been doing some " dope sheeting
" with him. And he named the four boys who
had worked with him on his class work and in
preparing for an examination in school.
Just about that time Goldstein and Milroy of the
Daily News came to the State's Attorney's office
with some copies of work that had been done on this
Underwood portable typewriter.
The boys he referred to were sent for, and upon
being questioned in the office, stated that they had
noticed at one time in particular this portable type-
writer in the home of Nathan Leopold. One of
them had made some notes on it.
And after talking to the four boys himself, Leo-
pold was asked the question: " Could it be possible
that somebody else whose name you have not men-
tioned owned that typewriter? " His reply was:
" I think it belongs to Leon Mandel." Leon Mandel
was in Europe at that time.
Then he was questioned, and by the questions that
were asked of him by the State's Attorney, he was
shown that if the typewriter belonged to Leon Man-
del, it must still be at his home, and that he agreed
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