Show FBI SCORES AGAIN science proves aid to crime detection features science has established itself as one of the strong allies of crime detection equipped with more than a million dollars worth of scientific apparatus and staffed with spec cia lists in various scientific fields the federal bureau of investigation crime detection laboratory in washington has proven an increasingly potent factor in detection and apprehension of criminals throughout the nation facilities of the modern scientific crime detection laboratory are at the command of every duly authorized law enforcement agency throughout the nation both in large cities and in small communities during the last fiscal year the volume of work received from state and municipal law enforcement agencies increased per cent over the previous fiscal year services of the FBI laboratory have been expanded phenomenally since its modest beginning in 1932 in the early it became apparent to john edgar hoover FBI director that his organization as well as all local law enforcement enforce emerit agencies needed the assistance of a crime detection laboratory this need was given concrete expression on november 24 1932 by founding 1 of the FBI laboratory solve sheep theft indicative of the widespread use being made of the labora torys facilities cili ties is 1 a recent case involving theft of sheep in big horn county montana investigation had disclosed that a suspect was selling a large number of sheep whose wool bore evidence of efforts to obliterate brand markings specimens of the brand paint remaining on the sheep wool and samples of the brand paint used by the true owner of the sheep in marking his animals were forwarded to the laboratory A spectrographic spectrograph lc examination conducted by FBI technicians revealed the presence in hi all the samples of prussian blue paint identical in both color and texture in addition it was found by checking with the manufacturer that only one shipment of this particular lot had been made to montana after being tried and found guilty the accused was fined and sentenced to serve three years and tour four months for the theft another case la in which findings of the he FBI laboratory aided local officers in their investigation involved a mule thief in a southern state who had all ered a number of 0 articles from P private home packing his stolen goods on a mule belonging to the victims next door neighbor james henry brown none nonchalantly hal antly rode off but when the mule later was found abandoned someone te remembered seeing an individual who looked like brown riding it flown down the railroad tracks picked up by local officers brown was held as a suspect while his trousers together with a sample of 0 hair from the side of the mule were submitted to the FBI laboratory there the mule gave brown away hair bearing characteristics of the family was found on his trousers and in his trousers cuffs when this hair and the hair from the side ot of the stolen mule were compared under the microscope it was determined that the two specimens strongly resembled each other when brown was faced with this evidence he confessed and later was sentenced to a term in the state penitentiary adopt war methods the knowledge acquired and techniques developed develop ed and perfected by FBI Is laboratory bor atory technicians through the war years in defeating espionage sabotage and related wartime cas cases es are being adapted to postwar crime problems bank robbery hijacking murder auto theft robbery and many other types of crimes handled in prewar years now are being afforded the latest and most comprehensive attention in the laboratory many times findings of the laboratory experts will clear the name of 0 innocent individuals suspected of involvement vol in a case A woman in wilmington ohio when arrested for issuing a worthless check protested that the store manager to whom she had given the check agreed to hold it she stated she had written the words hold this till I 1 pay on the face of the check submitted to the FBI laboratory the questioned check was examined examine d under ultraviolet light and found to contain this message the case against her w was as dismissed whether e er it t is a request for identification of suspected bloodstains matching of hairs and bits of fibers classification of various body fluids handwriting paint and soil com comparisons parl bullet identifications restoration of obliterated serial numbers or any other type of examination technicians of the FBI laboratory stand ready to offer reliable scientific analysis |