For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (70 page)

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