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Show Forgers Recognized as Most Clever Criminals When it comes to "beating the rap" (escaping jail sentence) forgers forg-ers are by far the cleverest of all criminals. Just try and convict a forger ! writes Charles H. Knowles In the American Detective Magazine. Mr. Knowles, who Is a special Investigator Investiga-tor for the William J. Burns Detective Detec-tive agency, continues: "Tho lack of tangible clues prevents pre-vents positive proof. Forgers operate oper-ate In such huge, well-organized gangs that to catch one of the many means little. Although we Investigators Investi-gators and the police may, In our minds, be sure of certain things, the law says It all has to be proven, not surmised. Forgers, for this reason, coupled with their own organized cleverness and network of 'inside' help, are the slipperiest to hold of bII criminals. "If one of the gang Is caught and arrested, what then? He won't squeal, and if his pals do not supply sup-ply ball for him, which he can forfeit for-feit by jumping (disappearance) he can rarely be convicted of much on the slim evidence of his part In the Vhole great scheme." |