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Show rM i FBI building s i, 4 ( i ". f.'4 i i Where ! I the G-m- en tell tales by Horace Sutton THE WEST reveres the exploits of the cowboys and the Indians. Somewhere in hillbilly country they still tell tales about the revenooers and the feds. But in an enormous fortress of a building in the nations capital, the memorial stands to those woolly days of the Thirties vs. the Gangsters. when it was the is recollected in the FBI That urban shoot-ou- t more properly, the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building Building, which took 12 years to build, cost $126,108,000, and appears as forbidding as the walled ramparts of Carcassonne. It is the most popular tour in the nations capital, e requiring the bureau to maintain a staff of 47 guides to run tours through the segment of the building which it keeps open to public view. Tours of the premises depart every weekday from 9 a.m. until 4 with one guide assigned to a group of 30 visitors. OF ALL the Bureaus exploits, it was those of the gangster era of the 1920s and 1930s that made it famous. The guides spiel and the exhibits in the display cases make a vivid show of the times when the headlines carried news of John Dillinger, Machine-Gu-n Kelly and Baby Face Nelson. Twenty-eigh- t special agents of the Bureau have been killed since 1908 and Nelson accounted for three of them. It was Kelly, however, who gave them their everlasting sobriquet. When surrounded, Kelly came out with his hands up saying, "Dont shoot, dont shoot. Dillinger, the gangster scourge of the Thirties, was in front of the Biograph killed in a gun battle with Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934. His death mask is on view. It was made on the premise that criminal tendencies could be deduced from certain bone structures, a theory that has since been abandoned. HAVING knocked off the five-stgangsters, the Bureau turned its attention to bank robbers. Two exponents of that art of pilferage were Albert Nussbaum and Robert Wilcoxsin who, in a whirlwind tour, relieved eight banks of a total of $249,523. In replaying the heist of the Lafayette National Bank the FBI built a model of the premises with red dots showing Wilcoxsins path and blue dots showing those of Nussbaum. From that reconstruction it was determined that full-tim- n, ar Tourists and FBI guide view displays from 20s and 30s in popular FBI Building tour in Washington, D.C. Wilcoxsin, the hit man, had killed a guard, while Nussbaum, the brains of the caper, was occupied elsewhere. Nussbaum was arrested from tips given by his mother-in-laand his wife should there be any lesson in that. He is now free (a nephew has taken the tour, but Wilcoxsin remains in the slammer. AMONG THE articles of war employed by the pair, or at least, maintained in the arsenal, was a basketful of grenades and an enormous 20 mm. anti-tan- k gun capable of tearing the treads off a Sherman or punching a hole in a vault. On tour the Bureaus guides show movies of actual bank robberies as they were filmed by hidden cameras, a prime technique used in identifying the stick-u- p men. The FBIs jurisdiction includes kidnapping and visitors hear the chilling exchange of voices that actually took place in Dallas when kidnappers called and discussed ransom. "How about a quarter of a million? the voice of the Oh, I kidnapper asks tentatively. The response: havent got that. Then the kidnapper, in a suddenly more conciliatory tone, asks, How about $50,000? CRIME aboard aircraft is a province of the Bureau and an elaborate display depicts the bizarre episode of November 1, 1955. On that day a w plane exploded in midair eleven minutes after it took off, killed everyone and scattered baggage all over the landscape. In a painstaking reconstruction, the baggage of all the passengers except one was put together. There was no trace of the suitcase carried by the mother of one Jack Gilbert Graham who had put her aboard the plane. Investigators showed that Graham had a history of insurance fraud that included putting a car in front of a train to claim collision. Graham was executed in Colorado in 1957. Q.E.D. WHAT DOES the Bureau stuff into its mammoth building? Weil, old typewriters, ancient check-writerstacks of anonymous letters, 167 million sets of fingerprints, a serology lab for testing for body fluids. Also 3,000 weapons, mostly confiscated from criminals, all of them arranged by caliber, including a cane which is really a shotgun. A memorial display sanctifies the memory of J. 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