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Blank & Atroler Photo. Robert Isham Randolph, Whe Leadg Chicage’ «Crime Fight. op Ere ae (jes prosecutions, but they in| i ' i paid ob a public reli which contains @erworld knows who they are, where they live, and what their job is. Under such circumstances it is very ‘difficult and dangerous for thosé men to get the kind of evidence wa need to secure convictions in crimi-. nal cases. If you want to be helpful ‘I suggest that you organize a real jwecret service, in which the opers- fives are not known to any one but the director, perhaps not sven known to one another. If you can supply these men with money enough to run with the wolf pack and buy informa- tion from the jackals who trail the “pack you can get the kind of evi- \dence we need to secire convictions. “With that kind of evidence and with Monew eaasauek te orotest witnesses Saciey THOR tO POLL Waltiiases ‘any of the Assistant State's Attor- 'neys on my staff can secure convic- _ tons, and without It the beat lawyer "tm the city can't? ~~ . We undertook the job, and the first _ problem was one of ways and means, ‘men and money. Some of “the com: ferees were not sold on the plan. . j “I don't think things sré bad ' "qnough yet,” ssid one of ‘them. ; }*'EDvery time we have a gang killing we bave the collateral benefit of get- ting rid of an undesirable citizen or ‘two. I think wa ought to walt until ‘they kill one of ps." : T suggested that the alternative aa not make very strong appeal to me ‘Decause I happened ‘to be standing out in front, and he said be was not ‘offering himself as a sacrifice sither. ‘The success of the plan wis finally: ae when one of our most lnflu- and public-epirited citizen? ia. Y dy think things are bad enough: i I have very special means fot, knowing how bad they are. J think: are proceeding slong the right ea. I haven't time to satay hard _talk al K, but you . ae en nee nanan at 7 ‘wpecial agent of the Department - Pustice for this district. The a@ment cooperated generously by him a leave of absence for purpose and we were fortunate ‘ff securing him because of his ability, Antegrity and long experience in jind of work. His best r dation came from the underwor! ‘which never speaks of him wi ‘Sta most vehement and ment rious epithets, — Pian of Organization,” ‘ Our plan of organization was ‘orfe suggested by the State's ‘Rey and we have mever sought te usurp any of the functions of ‘thd Jegahy constituted authorittes, ‘Wa have only furnished them with an extra weapon and we have had ties. finest kind of cooperation from the police and the prosecutors, Btate ang. national, We use the services ‘of the: wa ntifig Crime Detection of Northwestern Univeraity. Thess, aids are the comparison microssope: for identifying fatal bullets from, fest bullets for use in foreusice bal- listics; the violet ray for revealing secret writing and identifying acid and blood stains; photographic pree-' agane fay revesline farwerion and whe wees SG SSSR scr gciroe SOU @rue ing handwriting experts; moulage, er the art of making plastic molds for the reproduction of ebjecta, perish. able er otherwise, which Kk may be’ necessary to keep in the original’ form for purposes of evidence; | microscopio exaruinations ef varioug' kinds; and chemical and bacteriologt- eal analyses, to say nothing of the lie detector, that uncanny machine that ey trips up the most accomplished liar, Methods Used by Detectives, .- All of these are extremely valuable’ ds, and they supplement the work: trained detectives in making ive deductions. There are WMetectives whose experience and fHtiene oneratine sublestiveale ls Fr Bucs amazing results, but the Sher-: ke Holmes of fiction is very largely ‘a fiction and the best detectives to- are those who have the moat as a best sources of information, Me- pause this is a fact we resort to alf rts of deviows and peat ethods of securing Bat our best sources of int underworld ‘sourcell, ™