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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (66 page)
42.
“Bares Loeb’s Story of Strangling Plot,”
Chicago Daily News
, 8 August 1924; “Nathan’s Nature Kind, Dr. Hulbert Asserts,”
Chicago Daily News
, 9 August 1924.
43.
Trial Transcript, fols. 1988–1989.
44.
Ibid., fols. 1989–1990.
45.
Ibid., fols. 1991–1992.
46.
Genevieve Forbes, “Slayers’ Gland Systems Blamed for Diseased Minds,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 10 August 1924; Trial Transcript, fols. 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000.
47.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2056–2058.
48.
John Ashenhurst, “Tell Loeb’s Glee as Mother Talks of Tar and Feather,”
Chicago American
, 8 August 1924; Genevieve Forbes, “Loeb Hears Self ‘Dissected,’”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 9 August 1924.
49.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2061–2062.
50.
Forbes, “Slayers’ Gland Systems.”
51.
Trial Transcript, fol. 2062.
52.
Ibid., fols. 2067–2068.
53.
Ibid., fol. 2068.
54.
Ibid., fols. 2063, 2069.
55.
Ibid., fol. 2069.
56.
John Ashenhurst, “Ex-Sweethearts of Leopold Aid State in Gallows Fight,”
Chicago American
, 9 August 1924; Charles V. Slattery, “Leopold Like Man of 45, Says Expert,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 10 August 1924.
57.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2069–2071.
58.
Ibid., fols. 2073–2076.
59.
Ibid., fols. 2092–2093.
60.
Horry M. Jones, “A Simple Device for Measuring Basal Metabolism,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
75 (21 August 1920): 538–539; Robert C. Lewis, “The Jones ‘Metabolimeter,’” in Frank B. Sanborn, ed.,
Basal Metabolism: Its Determination and Application
(Boston, MA: Sanborn, 1922), 80–135.
61.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2093–2094.
62.
Ibid., fols. 2096–2097.
63.
Ibid., fols. 2097–2098.
64.
Ibid., fols. 2098–2100.
CHAPTER 14: PSYCHIATRISTS FOR THE STATE
1.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2656–2657.
2.
Ibid., fol. 2711.
3.
Ibid., fol. 3042.
4.
Ibid., fol. 3328.
5.
“Double Guard over Loeb and Leopold,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 18 August 1924.
6.
“Fools Folks on Piano,”
Chicago Daily News
, 18 August 1924; Sam Putnam, “Leopold Explains Taste in Music as He Pounds Piano,”
Chicago Evening Post
, 18 August 1924.
7.
“Double Guard.”
8.
W. H. Carwardine, “Outlawing of War, Return of the ‘Slipper Age,’ Urged by Pastors,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 18 August 1924.
9.
John Herrick, “Franks Trial Now Entering Final Phases,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 18 August 1924.
10.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3320–3323, 3325–3326.
11.
Ibid., fol. 3327.
12.
“Experts Exaggerate, State Doctor Avers,”
Chicago Daily News
, 13 August 1924; Genevieve Forbes, “‘Slayers Not Mentally Ill,’”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 13 August 1924; John Herrick, “State’s Alienists Ridicule ‘Dream Defense,’”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 14 August 1924; Charles V. Slattery, “Attempt to Buy State’s Alienist Is Crowe Hint,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 14 August 1924.
13.
Trial Transcript, fol. 2731.
14.
Ibid., fol. 2732.
15.
Ibid., fols. 2736–2738, 2744–2750.
16.
Ibid., fols. 2650–2657.
17.
Ibid., fols. 2711, 2712–2713.
18.
Ibid., fol. 2716.
19.
Editorial, “They Only Confuse the Problem,”
New York Times
, 15 August 1924.
20.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2873–2875.
21.
Ibid., fols. 2877–2878.
22.
Russell N. DeJong,
A History of American Neurology
(New York: Raven, 1982), 75–77.
23.
Trial Transcript, fols. 2902–2903.
24.
Ibid., fols. 2906, 2907.
25.
Ibid., fol. 2906.
26.
Ibid., fols. 2822–2823
27.
“Charges Crowe Had No Right to Quiz Youths,”
Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 17 August 1924; “Calls Slayers as Normal as Average Youth,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 16 August 1924; Adolf Meyer, “H. Douglas Singer, M.D., 1875–1940,”
Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry
45 (1941): 162–163; “H. D. Singer Dead; Noted Alienist, 65,”
New York Times,
30 August 1940.
28.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3032–3041.
29.
Ibid., fols. 3060, 3063, 3066, 3074.
30.
Ibid., fols. 3189–3190.
31.
Ibid., fol. 3193.
CHAPTER 15: CLOSING STATEMENTS
1.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3463–3464.
2.
Ibid., fols. 3766, 3768.
3.
“State Demands Quick Death for Two Boy Killers,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 21 December 1922; Genevieve Forbes, “Where Bullet Struck,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 21 December 1922.
4.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3582–3583.
5.
“State Demands.”
6.
“Caverly Verdict Brings Hope to Condemned Boy,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 12 September 1924; “Franks Decision Brings Hope to Condemned Boys,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 13 September 1924.
7.
Trial Transcript, fol. 3585.
8.
Ibid., fols. 3585–3586.
9.
Ibid., fols. 3591–3593.
10.
“Turns on Cardinella at Trial for Murder,”
Chicago Daily News
, 29 June 1920; “Gallows for Cardinella,”
Chicago Daily News
, 30 June 1920; Trial Transcript, fols. 3603–3608.
11.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3598–3602.
12.
Ibid., fol. 3482.
13.
Ibid., fols. 3465, 3467–3468.
14.
Ibid., fols. 3663–3664, 3665–3666.
15.
“Leopold Weeps under State’s Attack,”
Chicago Daily News
, 21 August 1924; Orville Dwyer, “Darrow Opens His Plea for Slayers Today,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 22 August 1924.
16.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3775–3776.
17.
Ibid., fols. 3777–3780.
18.
Ibid., fols. 3777–3780.
19.
Ibid., fols. 3822, 3824, 3825, 3826.
20.
Ibid., fol. 3830.
21.
Ibid., fols. 3830–3831.
22.
Ibid., fols. 3835, 3836, 3840, 3841.
23.
Ibid., fol. 3869.
24.
“Darrow, Master Pleader, Begs for Mercy; Women Faint as Crowds Mob Court,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 23 August 1924.
25.
Ibid.
26.
John Ashenhurst, “Darrow’s Plea!”
Chicago American
, 22 August 1924; “Darrow Pleads for Mercy; Mobs Riot,”
Chicago Daily News
, 22 August 1924; “4 Women to 1 Man Make Courtroom Like Sardine Can,”
Chicago American
, 25 August 1924; “Relief from Heat Promised Chicago,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 23 August 1924.
27.
“Darrow Pleads.”
28.
Trial Transcript, fol. 3887.
29.
Ibid., fol. 3893; “Text of Darrow’s Closing Appeal to Save Two Slayers,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 26 August 1924.
30.
Trial Transcript, fol. 3893; “Offers ‘Pact’ of Slayers as Product of Diseased Minds,”
Chicago American
, 25 August 1924.
31.
Trial Transcript, fols. 3907–3908.
32.
Ibid., fols. 3905–3907, 3910–3911.
33.
“‘Cry of the Dark Ages’ Is Assailed by Darrow in Plea,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 24 August 1924.
34.
“Text of Darrow’s Closing Appeal.”
35.
“‘Cry of the Dark Ages.’”
36.
“Text of Darrow’s Closing Appeal.”
37.
Ibid.
38.
John Herrick, “Darrow Pleads for Parents,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 26 August 1924; “Text of Darrow’s Closing Appeal.”
39.
Charles V. Slattery, “Darrow Pleads for ‘Boys of Future,’”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 26 August 1924; Herrick, “Darrow Pleads.”
40.
Trial Transcript, fols. 4157–4158, 4167–4168.
41.
Ibid., fols. 4178–4180.
42.
Ibid., fols. 4184–4185, 4201–4202, 4215.
43.
“Row Stops Crowe’s Attack on Slayers,”
Chicago Daily News
, 26 August 1924.
44.
Betty Walker, “Girl Reporter Causes Exodus,”
Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 27 August 1924; “Women Insist on Listening to ‘Unfit Matter,’”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 27 August 1924.
45.
“Women Insist”; Trial Transcript, fol. 4216.
46.
Trial Transcript, fol. 4216.
47.
Ibid., fol. 4219.
48.
Ibid., fols. 4221–4222.
49.
Ibid., fol. 4222.
50.
Ibid., fols. 4259–4260, 4299.
51.
Ibid., fols. 4299–4300, 4300–4301.
52.
Ibid., fol. 4275.
53.
Ibid., fols. 4244, 4274.
54.
Ibid., fols. 4262–4263.
55.
Ibid., fols. 4272–4273.
56.
Ibid., fols. 4331–4332, 4334.
57.
Ibid., fols. 4335–4336
58.
Ibid., fols. 4337, 4341.
59.
Ibid., fol. 4341.
