| Show RECALL EARLY CRIMES CK OF CHICAGO BOY KIDNAPERS I Alienists Declare Both Youths Sane Loeb Leader and Leopold Willing Slave Dreamed Of Being Attacked and Posed As Heroes CHICAGO July The 28 28 The The Chi Chi- Chi Chicago cairO cage Herald and Examiner Sun dun dun- dunday Sunday day printed the repot t of ot two ot of the engaged b the fam tam families Illes ot of Richard Loeb Loch and Nathan Nthan Leopold Jr to determine the men melt tat men ts tai status ot of o the two bo bois boa s 1 who ho kid and killed kilted their schoolbOY neIghbor Robert Franks The repol t prepared b Dr Carl CarlM 1 Ir Bowman Boston and anel Dr H S Hulbert Chicago says that Lo Loeb b Planned the tho crime In Its most In- In In Intimate details and that Leopold acted the part of ot a 0 tiling Illing slaVO In n carrying out the tho orders order of ot f hl his companion BoJ Bo h youths are fun fun- fun fundamentally forth form dament lly sane the report tun-j tun so eo sot I IN YOUTH I At the ago ase of ot 11 12 the nate ha hae haic e determined d Loeb Leeb first conceived of ot the tho Idea Idoa of ot a He lIe would lie abed l dreaming of ot being attacked and so 80 become Imbued with Ith a feeling ot of pHy From Irom then do n he lied the alienists asserted He began with Ith little things such 35 a d telling his governess ernes deliberate un untruths truths when hen hen he knew know that they would get him out ot of o unpleasant situations or help him to escape punishment STOLE AUTOMOBILES Loch Loeb a 8 first criminal leanings the report continues were ere those ot Of the ordinary boy the theft of ot cook les ies and co so tol tho thoAt At the tle age ot of oIS 16 15 however howe he stole automobiles for tor excitement with aith the assistance ot of Leopold The two planned to tolob lob iob a 0 wine wino cellar in a North Shore but tailed failed ailed when hen they wre W c unable to gain entrance to th the house nhen hen at the tho University of they helped to students property properly at t houes Loebs Loeb's Loc Intense fondness for tor booKs was nas attributed by the tho specialists as a R principal factor ill hi determining his later course ti h life liCe A story of ot 9 U criminal VAC no MI a little hoy boy and held hit I In a padded room ot of the attic In Inthe inthe Inthe the boy boys s home the alienists re n report port set sot the germ germ ot of the Franks r murder In Loeb s a mind J The repeat t quotes him as say aay saying ing concerning that tale I 1 think this this- started me mo off ott on the tho holo who s hole thing VICTIM The t itt n o 0 wealthy students first considered d di notion action actions In their Plot Piot when hen they hoy were wore ro- ro returning re returning turning from rom Ann Arbor ARch Mich 1 they hey decided to make Richard Bubel a U ot of Chicago stu- stu stu student lent dent th their lr victim Both liked Ru Ru tU liI hll bu but because e they t feared his hlA father tather You was too tight and 0 would spoil their chances ot of coi- coi col collecting lansom and not because ot of their ton fondness lIne tor for their Intended Intended did they discard him a as s a apo TalK Taut then Ihen turned upon Thomas Io b 11 old ll old ear brother of ot Rich Rich urd and then they considered Ills his father tather Both IQ as wore sere ere droppel I er when then practical obstacles lc appeared It was as Os not a 0 matter ot of the report states slates but the tho boys boy fLared that their attend attend- attendance ance at the and other mat mal mailers lers which would require them to at homo Items would produce sOme flaw in pl plans plana n to ev evade do 1 do- do lection do-lection SHERED CO rATHER r Other possible victims were store con considered eldered including the elder Leo and also 1110 Ir In a general way waya a ou oung JIg girl Birl the th report relates relate but theli finally centered upon a u soling o ng Dog DOY such auch as Bobby I 1 ranks In n the actual act ot of striking loung Franks Loeb uhf said He was hit hii on tho the head seve several 1 times time Ha bled I got great gret great hearl which was pleasant I was Oil cool and self possessed I had quite a quieting down Leopold LAUGhED L I IN I I 1 cool cooled d him hini dow flow flow- In five utes after atter we e got him Franks Into tho the back bael stat cat thinking hint alIe lie He Leopold oal said 1 This is Ia ten isten ible this I la is terrible I tol told l hint It was all right and laughed 1 III a d Joked possibly to calm my- my myself my myself self too loo Loeb It is basically a II dreamer tIn the doctors discovered His Hie reveries hase ha pictured him hint as a world t La Inous detective a pirate leader or U tl successful but extremely shrew business man He ne was WIla never any any- thing anything but the leader and ad plent plenty of ot onlookers to applaud LIED TO O HS MOM IV V When on he called upon a 0 acquaintance shortly bet before ore the wasa Franks murder he be told h her r he was Vas a bullet boilet bootlegger and showed her a bul- bul bul let hole In iii his shirt that he e had bad received In a shooting scrape In Ina ina II a saloon The tale was as a pure fabrication the ired tred Leopold on the other han hand Is the tho dreaming slave elave He Ho Is able to wherein Invent unusual sItuations where here in he Is to take lake the most dramatic palts but aluais al as the tho swagger swagger- ing lug swaggering bragging handy man aided by bythe byth th moral support ot of o someone up on upon whom he could depend These opposite natures of ot the two companions brought together first led the pair to trivial crimes to setting fire to shacks and to stealing automo automo- idles bile automobile to to see sec It if their keys eys a WOl k find and at ot last It to the Franks Franka and murder Such In tho the Jut iset t I anal sis els Is the tile substance the mess men mental ot of the alienists report on tel tal condition conditio 11 of o the be he confessed ela loll Cia el C i The Tho relation of ot muter master ma ter and slave between Loeb Loob and Leopold JOEB THE TUE LEAPER LE LeopoldI I In minor Inconsequential or 1111 matters Leopold could argue protest and even disobey but in that Loeb thought I had Important bearing on any at hand three words from him lm ended ened the tho dispute and his It was tyas merel merely a coincidence ad adnot not lIot that they had their eventual vIctim then in mind that the lie two bos s selected the Ibe phrase For Roberts Robert a sake sako as the one with Ith which Loab Loeb would silence the tha pro tests ot of his bis toll follower ower The partners copartners In crime the specialists le learned had worked ed out outa outa outa a code As s an 1111 example It if one called the other ether and nd described to him a b bargain at t Twelfth street anti and Fiftieth avenue It Woul would l I mean that th he woul would want to peet his companion at lit 12 UGO that day or night at a pre arranged place J Do or ot cm CRIME n The report continues The pa- pa pa patient tient Loeb Loch lists as his hll reasons for tor lIng the crime First the pleasure of ot planning aniline It Second th the notoriety which the tho papers would give give to the crime and Ibe the fact that bo he would talk It over with other people and derive a thrill front from his feeling ot of o super super- superiority Jn In that ho he knew the tho he true facts acts about the tho crime and Ilna an Third Thiril the money to be gained d 1 DO 0 It GAIN AGAIN Asked It if he would BO go 0 through with this crime again It he certain he hs would not be discovered lie he replied I l I I f bellee belles belle o e I would It if J I could get the money further down the lien alienists alIenist Isis declare do de- de clare claris The patients patient's Intellectual tune tunc- tunc are Intact and he I Is obvious obvious- obviously obviously ly ot of o high Intelligence Neurological logical and phy physical examination was oas extensive but It did not riot show any pathology except the low lev bu basal l metabolism which may be related to hI his relatively low Inclinations There There Is la nothing about the thi pa patients heft a 5 condition to show any ovi evidence dence ot of a hereditary nature and there Is not the slightest reason to Ce suppose that a condition of ot this kind will be tran transmitted to future generations generation by any of his rela rein relatives tives This condition is acquired In tho the life history ot of the tho Indi Individual vidual end and dies out when hen he dies The Tho family of o Loch Loeb did nothing to contribute to his Ilia delinquency the aerts STOLE F FROM OI r FAMILY lLY It n was brought out b by the ox- ox ex examining specialists that the tho Im Impulse pulse In III Loch to steal was aa t 95 10 50 tI that about two wo 0 months ago or about the time of o the tho Franks killing ho he stole a sum of ot money from rom his hl hI famil although he ho did not need It The thought ot of o death was apparently al I at hand In the die dis bot between cOn Joeb and Leo Leopold poid Often Otten the tho doctors said Loeb thought ot of shooting Leopold and carried a pistol whenever Ito he went ent about with him but ho he never could bring himself to It It It If ho he t Is a quoted I I could 11 hate e snapped my Linger fingers and caused his heart to stop I would have hate done dono doneit It LEOPOLD PRODIGY The report ot of the alienists on Nathan l Leopold Is la virtually a 0 duo du duplicate plicate ot of their finding on Loob In to the slaying of ot d 1 and the tha history of ot tho the two bO bOss bOssare s saro are aro much alike There Thero were cru sense unprintable parts parte In both epo po u ts uTho The Tho examinations wert er mado 1 in the middle of ot June The baby book boo tot tOI Leopold sho showed ed that he 1 weighed only six pounds tour four ounces at bUlb tho he laughed at th thins at age ot of 4 weeks and took his first step stOll at ot three months old and spoke a word when v hen en only four months and three weeks old oid l YOUTH He Ho was v precocious during his loutis and was ns graduated from front tho th University ot of o Michigan as aa a 0 Phi Beta neta Kappa when 17 years old Th Thi report reviews his ability to learn languages and hs h's love of ot art artand and dwells on his salt love He Ic showed a great fondness for tor his mother now led dead but he ho did not seem willing according to the tho report to admit there thero was as any extreme attachment to her lie Ho Hohas has haa visited her grave often otten WOMEN WO o The Tho report reviews Isle his clear eler philosophy his art and religion as hitherto published and says when holl asked whether he suicide to get Set out ot of his present difficulty he has said that he would not kill himself because ot of othis his duty to obey his family and be- be because because be because cause the tile trial would be Intensely interesting Leopold 11 alwais a had fear tear ot of physical harm but none ot of death Ho h has never been attracted to- to toward to 10 toward ward ord the female se sex and has nov Dev never er or had any real lovo love affair lie lle Hohas has ho looked down on women and ond despised them because ho he felt them I Inferior Intellectually He Ha never had puppy love affairs themI and looked tor for a girl only because I his hi friends did so When only five years old Leo Leo- Leopold Leopold began to construct Leol tiles sies which he Indulged In before going to sleep at night His ear ear ear- lIest earliest ear was as that of ot king and dave and anti he preferred to play the role of ot slave This phan phan- tasy had a II great many variations LAr SLA bL LA r r ri TO LOEB LOBE He finally titled Loeb Into thIs as the king and himself lt as e o slave and he became become IL ii worshiper of ot his hia companion About the ago ogo ot of 15 ho he began to use al al- al cohol and to chest cheat at ot cards at the suggestion of ot Loob Leeb A Aked ked whether whether er he would commit another such crime as the l Franks ranks slaying he be reo cc- re replied plied piled I 1 wouldn't commit another Bitch crime because I realize that one can C I never r be sure of escaping do de Ho lie denies that he got pleasure any pleas plea ure ore from slaying Franks Franka and in- in In IlL 1st Insists th that It Is unpleasant for tor hm to see aee people suffering physical pain He said aId that h he was fond ot of small children and that ho he hail 88 01 wanted to Uko tOko a crying child chUd In his rm arms and comfort I And almost that In iii such Much cases be ho hoan was vas an al- al al most moved to tears He Is able ablo to pose and anti make a I calm caIrn appearance but when he Ilc io hi talking stalking frankly ho lse hoYo hoa a great deal ot of Irritability and nervous tension Ho He lied Hod plausibly at times but when hen he ho realized It was known that he be h was lying Ito l appeared perfectly unconcerned the report says cays PLEASURE Ho showed considerable coil COli- con concern cern corn as to whether his hll stories agreed with those of at Loeb Loch and made no effort clort eI ort to shill the tho blame blamo to his companion although ha ho in- in insisted In Insisted silted that he Ilc did not really desire to kill Franks and derive those thoo sPecial pleasures II Horn om doing It Ito liu t feis els that his only reason for go ing leg going Into the tho crime crimo was wu his pact ot of friendship with Loeb and his com corn companion panion s desire delre to do It Once Oneo started In the plan he had no no feeling of ot guilt or remorse lie he had oven even suggested to Loeb that they kidnap the latter's latler's younge brother He lie was somewhat su superstitious egotistical and selfish He thought himself Interior inferior when a boy and as he grow Grew older this feeling was as furth further er emphasized with regard to his sex life He lie appears to be lack lack- ing lacking In Q a n normal ethical sense The Tho only time that he ever over seemed to have reproached himself or to have felt guilty was when hen his mother died and he seemed feel that her death was due t to a dis dia disease ease cause caused 1 by his birth LACKS EMOTION LJ 1 lIe He has hus ed in detail hi his lying stealing drunkenness kid kid- kid naping and slaying and does doea not net that he tie Is la guilty of ot any wrong conduct He le feels sorry that ho he has been boen caught but not for tor what hat he h has done done He did not get any thrill from himself a 0 master criminal and h denied the slightest tee feeling linG ot of f for tor any harm or suffering Buttering Is h Might havo have Inflicted upon Ho He lacks tho the emotional reaction ot of u either cither the normal Individual by tIle the hardened the report soy says Ho He has haa ne net never or er developed emotional ly Iy emotionally although h his big Intelligence ha has advanced He Ho has haa lacked a proper sense of ot proportion and hb hi attitude and re reaction to the ox e o can be ha summed 1 up sap to In his 0 own n statement ot I I suppose the function of ot aU all this thia Is to pi my life lite as ns some thing something worth while chile I can t l t corr late that with my but It Is usually considered a worth while life lIe My Iy talks fOlks have havo decided on all this Of Ot course I Iam Iam Iam am co ato desperately tr tribe Ing to cooper co ate with them As tor for me I think this medical medlia psychiatric stuff is all 1111 bunk Now I 1 don t I know what hM It s all 11 about 1 louve ou eus eu's e not let me In meIn on It but It IC sou ou Insist on It yoU must have good reasons which you OU think outweigh discomfort tot tOI me GrAD LD DISORDERS awas The reported that iliaC thel thie a was calcification of the tho pineal gland a 0 disorder which Is little understood although It Is II linked WIth Intellectual precocity also found tho the pituitary gland ills ills- dis disordered ordered but no other ether pathological disorder 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