For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (69 page)

Leopold and Loeb enter plea, 239–42

Prendergast case, 170–72

trial of Communist Labor Party, 183

trial of Emma Simpson, 191–92

trial of Russell Pethick, 187

trial of Thomas Fitzgerald, 200–201

Cook County Criminal Court Building, Chicago, 141, 142.
See also
Cook County Criminal Court

Crowe press conference at, after confessions, 136

Leopold and Loeb questioned at, 112–17, 122–23, 128–30

spectators at, 143, 239–40, 369–71, 377, 399–400

Cook County jail, 255

Bowman-Hulbert examination of Leopold and Loeb, 247–55

executions in, 169, 201

jailbreak attempt, 255

Leopold and Loeb in, 228, 232, 247, 288, 340–41, 394–96

Leopold’s cell, 341

Leopold suicide rumor, 340–41

Loeb’s cell, 341

Pethick in, 186

warden, 247, 340–41, 395

Coppersmith, Ella and Jack, 185–86, 187

coroner’s report on Bobby Franks, 21, 234, 291, 382

court hearing on mitigation of punishment for Leopold and Loeb, 3, 284–390

age of defendants as mitigating factor, 362, 365–66, 402–3

Bachrach’s closing statement, 365–69

Bowman-Hulbert report, 27, 312, 345–46, 354, 384, 385, 387

Caverly address on conduct of hearing, 389–90

Caverly decision on admissibility of mitigating testimony, 306

as contest between Darrow and Crowe, 162

cost to public, 320

Crowe alleges rape of Bobby Franks, 380–83

Crowe alleges secret crimes by Loeb, 383–89

Crowe’s strategy, 291, 293–304

Crowe’s summation, 357, 379–89

Darrow objects to state’s witnesses, 291

Darrow’s appearance, 292, 370, 377

Darrow’s cross-examination, 348–52

Darrow’s summation, 357, 369–79

defense team, 289, 290

defense witnesses, 292–93, 303, 305–46

endocrinological evidence, 327–34

Geary case precedent, 295–99

Lowhone case precedent, 300–302

Marshall’s closing statement, 361–65

mental illness and, 284, 364–69

mitigating factors, 284, 401–2

opposing philosophies of crime and punishment and, 162

prosecution team, 290

prosecution witnesses, 291, 300, 342–57

psychiatric testimony, 292–93, 303, 307–11, 315–18, 323–34, 342–46

ransom as aggravating factor, 364–65, 385–88

security instituted, 398–99

sentencing date set, 390

spectators, 369–71, 377, 399–400

state’s cross-examination, 312–15, 318–19, 326–38

testimony of Jacob Franks, 290–91

threats of lynching, 398–99

Couzens, James, 55

Cowles, Edward S., 420

Cox, Benjamin, 275

Crapo, Leonard, 363

Cravens, J. B., 66

crime and punishment.
See also
death penalty

as consequence of economic and social conditions, 215

Darrow’s philosophy, 161, 165, 174–75, 183–85, 192–96, 245, 250–51, 374–76

determinism and, 161, 174–75, 185–86, 195–96, 216, 374–76, 455

endocrinology and, 250–51

free will and, 174, 215–16, 245, 266, 455

Glueck’s theory, 263

medicalizing ideology, 266–67

mental derangement and, 185–89, 262, 263

organized crime, 216

Prohibition and, 216

punishment as destructive and detrimental, 175

punishment as deterrent, 161, 173–74, 216

recidivism, 175

rehabilitation and, 263

scientism and, 192–96

social maladjustment and, 263

Crime and Punishment
(Dostoyevsky), ix

Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
(Darrow), 192–93, 194

crime scene, 10–12, 13, 85–87

body discovered, 10–12, 96, 233

corpse, condition of, 11, 12, 17

disposal of body at, 85–87

eyeglasses at, 11, 12, 13, 25–26, 87, 105

Leopold and Loeb choose drainage culvert to hide the body, 62

Crot, William, 111

Crowe, Robert, 197–224

aftermath of Leopold and Loeb case, 424–26

alibi of Leopold and Loeb broken, 127–28

alleges new secrets about murder, 383–89

alleges rape of Bobby Franks, 380–83

appearance, 198, 202

assistants in Leopold and Loeb case, 240, 290

attorney to Police Trial Board, 204

background, 198

blocking insanity plea defense, 151–61, 236, 271–72

brings Leopold in for questioning, 108, 109–11

calendar in Leopold and Loeb case and, 242–44

case against Carl Wanderer, 210–14

case of Frank Lowhone and, 300–302

case against Fred Lundin, 220–24

case against Thomas Fitzgerald, 197–201, 206, 209, 372

case of Eugene Geary and, 295–99

characterization of crime, 3

confessions of Leopold and Loeb, 131–43, 235–36

cross-examination of Glueck, 326–37

cross-examination of Healy, 318–19

cross-examination of Hulbert, 334–38

cross-examination of White, 312–15

crusade against illegal gambling, 217–18

Darrow’s cross-examination of state’s psychiatrists and, 352

death of, 447

death penalty and, 197, 206, 209

death penalty in Leopold and Loeb case sought, 161, 233–34, 235, 238, 243, 270–72, 287–88, 290, 358–59, 371–72, 388–89, 417–18

early theory of crime, 22–23

E. G. Marshall plays in
Compulsion
, 450

election of 1920 and, 206–9

enmity toward Darrow, 161, 165

evidence mounts against Leopold and Loeb, 119–26

fame of, 214

fights habeas corpus for Leopold and Loeb, 231–32

fights hearing on mitigation in Leopold and Loeb case, 286–304

grand jury proceedings, Leopold and Loeb case, 232–35

gray Winton automobile sought by, 20

guilty plea by Leopold and Loeb and, 283–84

hearing on mitigation of punishment for Leopold and Loeb, 291–390

insanity defense and, 271–72

as judge, 198, 202, 205–6, 372

links Underwood typewriter to Leopold, 120–26

meeting with Leopold’s father, 150–51

moves for a speedy trial, 237

murder investigation, 145–46

office of, 152, 155, 160

parole of Leopold and, 438

philosophy of crime and punishment, 162, 216

police brutality and, 109

political ambitions, 201–2, 210, 217, 223, 224, 455

political power of, 219

preparation for trial, 140

press and, 213, 214, 217, 235–36, 272, 288–89

press conference after confessions, 136

on psychiatric evidence in Leopold and Loeb case, 286–88

psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb and, 151–61, 270–72

questions Leopold at Criminal Court Building, 112–17, 122–23

questions Loeb at Criminal Court Building, 116–17, 128–30

as Republican, 202, 206–8

retracing of Leopold and Loeb’s steps on day of murder, 140–43

Samuel Ettelson and, 6

on sexual compact of Leopold and Loeb, 316

statement to media on Leopold and Loeb homosexuality, 405–6

as state’s attorney for Cook County, 198, 201, 206–18, 463

summation at court hearing, 357, 379–89

suspects in murder and, 17

tortoiseshell glasses investigated, 26

verdict in Leopold and Loeb case and, 404

Curran, Louis, 55

Dailey, James (Bull), 208

Daly’s Restaurant, 145

Danielson, O. A., 273, 274

Dargan, Preston, 72–74

Darnell, Carl, 252, 336

Darrow, Amirus, 174, 192

Darrow, Clarence, 165–96

aftermath of Leopold and Loeb case, 422–24

at Allegheny College, 192

appeal in Leopold and Loeb case readied, 396–97

appearance of, 144, 168, 228–29, 230, 242, 246, 289, 292, 324, 370, 377

in Ashtabula, Ohio, 166, 168, 174

as attorney for labor movement, 166, 176, 177–78, 179–82

autobiography of, 464

Bowman-Hulbert examination of Leopold and Loeb, 246–56

calendar in Leopold and Loeb case and, 242–44

case of Charles Healey, 183

case of Communist Labor Party, 183

case of Edward Hettinger, 188–89

case of Emma Simpson, 190–92

case of Eugene Debs, 177–78

case of Eugene Prendergast, 167–68, 170–72

case of the Haymarket prisoners, 169–70

case of McNamara brothers, 180–82

case of Mont Tennes, 182

case of Oscar DePriest, 182–83

case of Russell Pethick, 185–88

case of Thomas Kidd, 178–79

case of WFM officials, 179–80

as champion of weak and defenseless, 176

characterization of Leopold and Loeb murder, 3

in Cook County Criminal Court, 183–84

critics of, 173