Show WORK VORK OP OF FBI IS AID TO 0 INTERNAL SECURITY mr mir jay C newman N ao special agent in charge of the salt lake 1 ke city field division of the federal fe d aral bureau eau of investigation said last wk week in discussing the technical laboratory facilities of the F B I 1 in washington Washingto nr that examinations conducted toy by experts haw have frequently been of value to local law enforce an fo ce merit officials as well as to the FBI not only in a criminal matters but in 1 cases case relating to ni internal terns security y as well an am important phase 0 of f the t laboratory ir work in 15 the cx examination a m ma tion of handwriting and hand rioting printing spec per imma FBI director J edgar hoover has made this service aree available to all duty constituted low law ef e enforcement f agencies local and state as well ell ss federal fadem I 1 to illustrate the value of this type of examination several ree recent ent cases were cited in which the facilities of the FBI Ted technical mical labor laboratory t ary have been utilized to conduct hand handwrite writ ing analysis obscene expressions scrawled on school textbooks intended for students student tu I 1 in georgia a public schools led to the conviction of a philadelphian on charges of inter interstate natate transportation of obscene literal literature E employed empl by the pub publisher 1 aher of the be books the subject an abject had made the criminal notations tin at the time he packed the books for shipment another cue case involved a colum bw bus ohio woman who boasted that she could write in two or three handwritings 11 she styled herself german spy number and wrote threatening letters to governor governoor bricker of ohio although she apparently parent ly relied mired on her ability to it disguise her handwriting to escape a de lection tec tion that very handwriting when examined in the FBI labors labora tory was responsible for her being positively identified in memphis tennessee the testimony of an expert from the laboratory established that the signature on a murder victims will was a forgery this tact fact led to the condic tion pen persons ions in a poison in min der cue case fraudulent check powers passers too are often identified through handwriting examinations one of the most elusive and accomplished criminals in this category was recently identified through specimens sum bitted from chicago illinois he later ad bitted passing worthless checks to tolling talling approximately in more than different cities cilam one of the most dangerous check flashing gongs gangs in the business was a recently broken up by the apprehend arn aion and positive identification of its ring leader james ormsby costin 56 of sedalia missouri more than eighty checks cashed by this thin gang were received in the Bur bureaus eaas technical laboratory from the states of utah nevada washington oregon idaho montana so dakota wyoming and nebraska by means of the national fraudulent check file the laboratory identified the writers of most of the checks as well a as 6 the check protectors type writers and nd paper used in their preparation pa ration at the federal trial in ogden U tah on may 14 1943 the result of the laboratory examination were presented by an FBI expert and costin was convicted and sentenced to seven years as imprisonment the other seven members of the gang had previously entered plem pleas of guilty in the united states district court for the district a of utah the then there we was the case of the id idaho he extortionist who wrote letters th threatening a neatem ng death to several of hollywood ly wood s outstanding screen person H he was positively identified by FBI hand handwriting writing experts in this case th thirteen taen letters were written to prominent individuals and all were wem identified as the work of 0 the sub jeer t one hundred and seventy nine specimens of handwriting taken from suspects and submitted in A recent examined acen illinois extortion case were examined in the FBI laboratory and made possible the positive identification of the writer ot of a threatening letter to the son of an illinois congressman gress an when confronted with the findings finding of the experts the extortionists extortionist tort confessed mr M newman pointed out that these there are am but is a few of many types ot of examinations and FBI laboratory performs as a service to bocol sm ana state police agencies fraudulent cheeks checks are am searched through the national fraudulent check file and elpe experts r ts have identified more than fifty per cent ot of the checks submitted by local law enforcement agencies other facilities such as chemistry microscopy blants opy graphy fire arms identification fi cation slow glass studies tri toxicology and numerous ous other types of examinations are a available to local agencies the examinations are made free of charge and the examiners go out to testify as to their findings without cost 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