Figures in Darrow Cases

Question 1

Clarence Darrow

Answer 1

defense attorney

Question 2

Robert E. Crowe

Answer 2

Leopold and Loeb: state’s attorney for Cook County, investigator and pros

Question 3

Bobby Franks

Answer 3

14 year old victim, Loeb’s cousin

Question 4

John R. Caverly

Answer 4

Leopold and Loeb: judge, “kindly and discerning”, anti-death penalty

Question 5

William Krohn

Answer 5

Leopold and Loeb: forensic psychiatrist for prosecution

Question 6

William Krohn

Answer 6

Leopold and Loeb: forensic psychiatrist for prosecution

Question 7

John Washington Butler

Answer 7

Scopes: namesake of Butler act, didn’t know anything about evolution by his own admission

Question 8

George Rappleyea

Answer 8

Scopes: staged the monkey trial

Question 9

George Rappleyea

Answer 9

Scopes: staged the monkey trial

Question 10

John Tate Raulson

Answer 10

Scopes: judge

Question 11

A. Thomas Stewart

Answer 11

Scoeps: AG of TN, chief prosecutor

Question 12

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 12

Scopes: helped with prosecution, “The Great Commoner”

Question 13

ACLU/Arthur Garfield Hays

Answer 13

Scopes: helped support the trial, assisted with defense

Question 14

H. L. Mencken

Answer 14

Scopes: journalist, biased toward defense

Question 15

John Scopes

Answer 15

Scopes: science/gym teacher, didn’t remember teaching evolution

Question 16

Ossian Sweet

Answer 16

Sweet: Black daughter, bought the house

Question 17

Gladys Sweet

Answer 17

Sweet: Ossian’s wife, had a newborn daughter (Iva)

Question 18

Otis Sweet

Answer 18

Sweet: Ossian’s middle brother, dentist

Question 19

Henry Sweet

Answer 19

Sweet: youngest brother, law student, subject of second trial (admitted to firing shots)

Question 20

Robert Toms

Answer 20

Sweet: prosecutor

Question 21

Frank Murphy

Answer 21

Sweet: judge

Question 22

NAACP

Answer 22

Sweet: provided financial assistance for case

Question 23

Thalia Massie

Answer 23

Massie: young socialite, mentally ill, claimed she was raped

Question 24

Thomas Massie

Answer 24

Massie: Thalia’s military husband

Question 25

Grace Fortescue

Answer 25

Massie: Thalia’s wealthy mother (hired Darrow)

Question 26

Admiral Sterling

Answer 26

Massie: white supremacist who headed up the Navy in Hawaii

Question 27

Agnes Peoples

Answer 27

Massie: assaulted at an intersection by a car driven by Hawaiian men, she knows the license plate

Question 28

Horace Ida

Answer 28

Massie: Hawaiian man who owned a car in an altercation, accused of rape

Question 29

Joe Kahahawai

Answer 29

Massie: Hawaiian man accused of rape, killed by Massies

Question 30

Deacon Jones

Answer 30

Massie: Conspired with Massies, killed Joe