| Show CRIMINAL EVER UP AGAINST IT law lawbreaker breaker almost certain to be run down if individuals co considering sI derIng a 11 calm mat inal venture could walk through h tile the bl biff new department of justice building in W washington ashington and see for themselves what cards detective science has stack stacked ed against them they might be warned off some of them over fingerprints are on file so arranged that ahat expert clerks can match a set of prints sent in for inquiry if they are among the the office of information exchanges prints with CO countries in keeping its files nine thousand of the ru most ost notorious criminals in this country bank robbers kidnapers and others are further cataloguer catalogued catalo gued bcd in a single fingerprint file wh where ere each of their ten angers on e rs Is separately indexed for ready reference dillinger thou thought ht he changed his prints but the experts identified them on unchanged 0 points in another file are cards showing over names nicknames and aliases nicknames have aa a way of sticking in the underworld govern ment detectives have aliases and nicknames at their fingertips brass monkey boxcar casey booze hound bowle bowlegged 7 ed joe may be traced though 1 they change their real names a dozen times another filo fie shows typewriter standards enabling investigators to find out what make of machine was used in a typed note A toy typewriter flo figured ared in one recent case but t the office had not overlooked toys w when hb en it made up its typewriter file Iland handwriting wrItIng and typewriting of criminals are also on file in those ranks ot of green steel filing cabinets each bach individual typewriter reve reveals als its identity by its mannerisms no less than the human hand does when it signs a name A file of stationery showing water marks is another ready reference aid that has trapped more than one criminal at government headquarters the governments overn ments crime laboratory tor has equipment for reading invisible writing whitin between the lines of innocent not notes s it can even read writing till on a second sheet where a pencil has pressed hard enough to leave invisible tracing A machine projecting parallel beams of light re fleets the shadows of this invisible writing there Is a trophy hall in th the e new offices of the S Di llinge rs s straw governile go f vernill I 1 ent hat bletl that at hold the th eSche Urs eliel th 1 are er e rati sill eab SS 1 rein icoler notley depart ment of j t 8 men science 5 9 ei atiat e star ri S e r v 1 e e n Z li fil d ern ve all subscribe t u oh t lie but gold there are c Iscle rs f lillie R at too t |
