McKernan M.: The Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb , Allen and Unwin 1925 (printed in the US)

Scarce. "On July 23rd, 1924, there began, in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, before His Honour Judge John R Caverley, Chief Justice of that Court, a hearing in the case of Nathaniel F. Leopold, Jr, and Richard A. Loeb, in which for the first time in a court of justice an opportunity was presented to determine the mental condition of persons accused of crime, according to the debates of science and modern psychiatry, without arbitrary and unscientific limitation imposed by archaic rules of law" - from the introduction by defence lawyers Clarence Darrow and Walter Bachrach. The account of the crime and the trial was compiled from the official record of the trial as well as all documentary evidence. 380pp, illus; spine a little dulled VG+ (Book ref. 129)  £55.00

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