Chapter 47 Section 22

During the defense's cross-examination process, Dr. Claren Darrow told the judge several times that after the arrest of Nathan and Richard, Attorney General Robert Coro wanted the prosecution's experts to complete their investigation of the two defendants. The evaluation and diagnosis of the defendant repeatedly refused the request of the defense lawyer to meet with the client until the court issued an order."Seizing a client and forcing a confession from them is absolutely not law enforcement," Krazhin said. Attorney General Korow replied: "We didn't force them to talk...the fact is, once they talked, they talked endlessly... endlessly bragging about how clever this so-called 'perfect crime' they planned Ingenious and thoughtful."

Under the questioning of Claren Darrow, the Attorney General finally became angry: "I do not deny that my actions violated their constitutional rights. And, as long as I still sit in the chair of the District Attorney, I will continue to do so." Do. When a guy is charged with a crime, I would never call him and tell him what lawyer to get before one of our guys talks to him." Claren Darrow also went viral: "You think the citizens are going to elect their district attorney who publicly threatens to violate the Constitution?" Robert Corow is known to be running for re-election in the upcoming November election , which is one of the reasons why he spared no effort in the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Fanks.

The media also made a big fuss about what Klaren said, and even picked out the finishing touches in this conversation and made it into a large headline in the newspaper.Later, Chief Prosecutor Koro had to "explain" his above remarks in court. In 1924, the "Book of Monanda Rights" had not yet come out.It was not until the 1960s, 30 years later, that the Federal Supreme Court pointed out in the Monanda case that the relevant authorities must inform the suspects of their right to remain silent and to hire a lawyer.When reporters interviewed Willian Corot, a prominent Chicago attorney and nephew of Attorney General Robert Corot, about the Supreme Court ruling, he acknowledged that Dr. Claren Darrow had had the foresight in this area years before. . (For the full text of "Meng Randa's Letter of Rights", please refer to the article "Desecrated Maternal Love" in the author's book)

On the afternoon of August 19, after the last witness for the prosecution had exited the courtroom, Judge John Gavelli announced the beginning of his concluding remarks. The first to speak was Assistant Attorney General Thomas Marshall: "Given the unprecedented severity of the case and the unprecedented brutality of the perpetrators, the position of the prosecution is that there is only one possible punishment for the two defendants, That is the death penalty—the death penalty.” Thomas talked for a whole afternoon, counting almost all the cases of hanging in history. Another Assistant Attorney General, Joseph Savage, told Judge Gaveli: "Now before you are two of the most ruthless, cruel, cowardly, and despicable criminals." A chance for Bee Fanks to rebel. "They hit Bobby from behind, and that was an utterly cowardly thing to do." Now, when they're in the hands of the police, when they're brought to court, their well-paid lawyers talk about tolerance and kindness. "When they punched Bobby four times in the head, dragged him to the back of the car and stabbed him alive with a chisel, did they show any kindness or mercy to Bobby? Your Honor, you Don't you think it's absurd that when they did that to a real boy, they're now in court begging for clemency and mercy?"

In the auditorium, sobs and sighs gradually rose.Jacob Fanks finally couldn't bear it and stood up and left the court. "Hang them! Hang these two heartless murderers!" Joseph Savage concluded. "If we do not execute them in the name of the law, we are violating the law. And I want to thank you ——Your Honorable Judge said something from the bottom of his heart, if these two defendants were not hanged, all those hanged criminals in the past history would feel wronged.” It is said that during the adjournment after Joseph Savage’s speech, Nathan Leop changed his relaxed, casual and indifferent attitude to the public since the opening of the court, and cried bitterly in front of his brother Mike: “Oh, my God! ...Mike, do you think we're really going to be hanged?"

In stark contrast to Joseph Savage's fury, the defense lawyer Benjamin Bachlach's speech was very calm and pedantic.He spent a long time explaining to the court audience the then-emerging Freudian interpretation of the human psyche, saying that "mental illness is essentially the condition in which the patient is impossible to deal with, and correct judgment on the events that occurred”.Therefore, what is needed to deal with such cases is knowledge and understanding, but Assistant Attorney General Joseph Savage just blindly incited the prejudice and hostility of the people in his speech.

On the afternoon of Friday, August 22, when Judge John Gavelli returned after lunch, he found that there were so many people inside and outside the criminal court building that he had to scramble left and right to get to the sixth floor.When he finally entered his courtroom, Judge Gavelli angrily ordered the bailiffs to close the door immediately. Half of Chicago flocked here, to use an apparently exaggerated statement by one reporter.People wanted to hear for themselves Claren Darrow's concluding remarks in the case. At 2:12, Dr. Claren Darro rose to his feet.The noise outside the door, the noise outside the window, one after another.Claren raised his hand helplessly after speaking less than ten sentences: "If you don't mind, Your Honor..." The following words were drowned in a new round of voices.The audience in the auditorium only saw the famous lawyer walk back to his seat and sit down.

Judge Gavelli sternly ordered the marshals to evacuate the entire building within ten minutes and called Chicago Police Chief Morgan Collins for reinforcements.It took two more tries for Claren Darrow before he was able to restart at around 2:40. Claren began by talking about the national sensation caused by the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Fanks. "When a case arouses public outrage and public opinion demands that the murderer be punished severely, people will only think of one punishment method, which is the death penalty, without considering the seriousness or severity of the specific crime committed by the defendant."