Read For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago Online
Authors: Simon Baatz
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cross-examination of state’s psychiatrists, 348–52, 355–57
Crowe’s cross-examination of psychiatrists and, 314–15
Crowe’s enmity toward, 161, 165
death of, 447
defense of anarchists, communists, and antiwar protesters, 183
defense of Fred Lundin, 161, 221–24
defense team in Leopold and Loeb case, 240–41, 289
as determinist, 161, 175, 184–85, 195–96, 374–76
fame of, 172, 176, 178, 180, 246, 379, 422–24
fees in Leopold and Loeb case, 238, 269, 410
guilty plea for Leopold and Loeb, 282–88
habeas corpus presented for Leopold and Loeb, 230, 231–32
Haymarket bombing case, 170, 175–76
hearing on mitigation of punishment for Leopold and Loeb, 291–304
hired by Leopold and Loeb families, 143–45, 161, 196
humanitarianism of, 186
indictment against Leopold and Loeb, 232–44
influence of Altgeld’s determinism on, 174–75
insanity defense, 189–92, 269–70, 277, 278
on judicial system, 170
jury tampering scandal, 182
Leopold and Loeb enter plea, 239–42
loopholes in legal code and, 171–72, 173
loss of renown, 180–82
mental derangement (diminished capacity) as defense, 185–89
mitigation of punishment in Leopold and Loeb case, 280–304
motions considered in Leopold and Loeb case, 277–78
motive for taking Leopold and Loeb case, 196
move to Chicago, 166, 168
opposition to death penalty, 170, 173–74, 376–78, 404, 422–23
Orson Welles plays in
Compulsion
, 450–51
partner in Darrow, Sissman, Holly, and Carlin, 182
personality and character, 168
philosophy of crime and punishment, 161, 165, 174–75, 183–88, 192–96, 245, 250–51
plan for defense of Leopold and Loeb, 256, 267–68, 269–70, 276–79
politics, centrist, 183
politics, radical and progressive, 168–69, 179, 182, 424
on practicing law, 165–66
press and, 272, 289
on public opinion in Leopold and Loeb, 237–38, 323
public speaking/oration of, 168, 176, 223, 376–78
questioning of William Healy, 315–18
radio broadcast of Leopold and Loeb trial opposed, 276
scientism and, 192–96, 245
scientists for the defense, 245–68
Scopes trial, 423–24
summation at court hearing, 357, 369–79
threats during Leopold and Loeb case, 398
verdict in Leopold and Loeb case, 400
wealth of Leopold and Loeb families and, 234, 237, 268
writings and publications, 192–93, 194
Darrow, Jessie, 168, 178
Darrow, Paul, 168
Darrow, Ruby, 143–44, 178, 292, 410
Darrow, Sissman, Holly, and Carlin, 182
Dartmouth College, 4
Darwin, Charles, 192
Darwinism, 257
Scopes trial and evolution, 423–24
Davies, Gertrude, 249
Davis, Edwin, 220
Davis, H. I., 188
Day, James, 430–32
death penalty
age as mitigating factor, 361–63, 402–3, 412
arguments against, 173–74
case against Carl Wanderer, 213–14
case of Eugene Prendergast, 167–68, 170–72
case against Thomas Fitzgerald, 199, 201
case against Walter Krauser and Bernard Grant, 359–62, 413–14
Cook County list of men executed, 363, 372
Crowe as proponent for, 197, 213–14, 372, 388–89
Crowe seeks in Leopold and Loeb case, 161, 233–34, 235, 238, 243, 287–88, 290, 358–59, 371–72, 388–89, 417–18
Darrow’s campaign against, 422–23
Darrow’s opposition to, 170, 173–74, 189, 376–78, 404, 422–23
as deterrent, 216, 417–18
diminished-capacity defense, 186–88
executions in Cook County jail, 169, 201
guilty plea and, 372
hanging as means of, 167, 169
Haymarket bombing case, 169
Hoyne seeks in Pethick case, 186
Illinois law on, 358
Judge Caverly and, 240
juveniles executed, 362–63
mitigating factors, 361–63, 391
public demand for, Leopold and Loeb case, 319–23, 392–93
sanity necessary for execution, 296–97, 396–97
Debs, Eugene, 177–78, 379
Degnan, Suzanne, 436
Democratic Party (Chicago), 6
Chicago Daily Journal
and, 218, 464
Darrow and, 168
Denby, Edwin C., 55
Deneen, Charles, 204, 219
DePriest, Oscar, 182–83
Detective Story Magazine
, 71
determinism, 161, 174–75, 184–85, 195–96, 216, 374–76
Detroit Free Press
, 413
Deutsch, Armand, 78
Dever, William, 15, 140, 219–20
Devoorde, Philip Van, 19
Dew Drop Inn (Leopold and Loeb stop at), 84–85, 133
Dewey, John, 36
DeYoung, Frederic Robert, 18, 240
Dick, Paul, 251
Dickens, Charles, 34
Dix, Dorothea, 257
Doherty, Jim, 425
Dolginoff, Stephen, 451
Donkar, Ed, 255
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, ix Douglas School, 30–31, 309
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 35
Drake, Glenn, 24
Duffy, Tom (Red), 425
Dunham, Charles, 274–75
Durand, James, 341
Eagle Harbor (Michigan), 29
Eagle River (Michigan), 29
Eckstein, Frederick, 20
Edfeldt, David, 232, 282
Edgewater Beach Hotel, 391–92, 399
813
(Leblanc), 35
Emory, Elwood, 24
endocrinology, 194, 247–51
adrenal glands, 248–49
endocrine glands and mental health, 249–51
interstitial sex glands, 249
Jones metabolimeter, 251–52
Leopold’s pineal gland, 253–54, 331, 334
Loeb’s low metabolism, 251, 254
pancreatic glands, 249
pineal gland, 248, 331, 334–38
pituitary gland, 248, 331, 345
plethysmorgraph, 252
testing of Leopold and Loeb, 251–56, 328–34, 335–38
thymus gland, 249
thyroid gland, 248, 249, 331
Victor X-ray machine, 252, 336–38
Englund, Sven, 77–78, 91–93, 127–30, 233
Enright, Maurice (Mossy), 295
Errico, Thomas, 363
Erselen, F. C., 275
Ettelson, Samuel, 6–10, 12–15, 17–18, 240
evolution, 423–24
Ewing Avenue police station, 105
eyeglasses
drop from Leopold’s clothes, 87
found at crime scene, 11, 12, 13, 25–26, 87, 103, 104, 105, 118, 119, 233
Leopold questioned about, 110–11, 112, 113–15
linked to Leopold, 131
Fabre, Jean-Henri, 195
Fennessy, Mike, 207
Ferry, Asa, 275
First Principles
(Spencer), 192
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 321, 449
Fitzgerald, Thomas, 197–201, 206, 209, 372
Fitzmorris, Charles, 217–18
Ford, Henry, 55
Foreman, Gerhart (Leopold’s maternal grandfather), 30
Francis Parker School, 33
Franks, Bobby.
See also
murder of Bobby Franks
body discovered, 10–12, 96
cause of death, 11, 12, 234
collection of poems in his memory, 4
discoloration on body, 11, 12, 17, 86
Ellis Avenue as site of abduction, 19, 23
funeral service, 24–25
at Harvard School, 4, 5, 102
home (Ellis Avenue), 4, 6, 12, 24, 81, 393–94
identification of body, 13–14
kidnapping of, 4–26, 81–83, 85
as Loeb’s second cousin, 81, 83, 102, 142, 157
personality, 5
police protection of family, 21
reward offered by family, 20
sexual abuse alleged, 380–83
threats against family of, 21
victim by chance, 81–83, 157
Franks, Flora, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 17, 24–25, 89, 290, 394, 405
Franks, Jack, 4
Franks, Jacob, 4, 5–6, 7, 12, 21, 89
appearance, 240
on Caverly decision to allow psychiatric evidence, 307
in court, 240, 290, 306–7
court testimony, 290–91
ransom payment, 13–14, 95–97, 100
sale of home, 393–94
statement after Leopold and Loeb confessions, 138
testimony before grand jury, 233
threats during Leopold and Loeb case, 393–94
verdict in Leopold and Loeb case and, 404–5
wealth of, 6, 16
Franks, Jacob, Jr., 4–5, 6, 17
Franks, Josephine, 4, 6, 21
Freud, Sigmund, 265, 420–21
Gaensslen, Bessie, 417–18
Geary, Eugene, 295–99, 396
General Managers’ Association, 177, 178
George, Henry, 169
Gertz, Elmer
attorney for Leopold’s parole hearings, 439–43
lawsuit against movie
Compulsion
, 445–46
Gibbs, Charles, 301
Gill, John B., 171
Glenn, Otis, 18
Glueck, Bernard, 262–64, 265, 420
psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb, 263–64
testimony, 306, 323–27
Goettge, Frank, 55
Goldstein, Alvin, 101–2, 103, 120, 463
Gore, Edward, 320
Gorman, Al, 207
Gortland, James, 111
Grand Jury proceedings, Leopold and Loeb case, 232–35
foreman of jury, 235