◆ SpookStack

forenen, fur workore, hoating contractors, laborers, machinists, mechanics, paintors, photestal operators, plate cutters, Plunbers, printers, stevedorcs, stewards, storekeepora, Lrapperdg, telegraph, telephone and teletype operators, truck drivers, woodcraft workers - one sculptor, one artist's model and one hypnotist. . : One hundred and vixty-one of our Special Agents have had active ser- vice in the Army, Navy or Marino Corps. Bixty-ono of our cpucial Agents are experienced musicians; seven- teen of that number lave tad professional experience and seven - may the Lord have marey on their soula - lave peen orchestra leaders. I wish I had time to tell you how one of our Arenta, a few years ago, saved his life in a mountain cabin in one of the Southern States by his ability to play the violin. , Seventy-two of our men have taught practically every subject in high schools and colleges. Six hive stadied medicine; five are first aid exper*s; Six have studied pharuacy; ono, veterinary medicine; and one has studied den- tistry. wy Several of our mon havo distinguished themselves in athletic ca- of _ reers. We have more than throu good football teans; we could form more than oc _ two good baseball tesiny Prom thore listed among cur Special Agents; several good basketball teams. and inv of our men have been inter-collegiate champ- tons in various lines of upert. fe Lies ' a You gentlemen knew totter than any other group that frem time immem- orial one of the greatoat tanks confronting law enforcement officers 211 over the world has been to hit upon iviome absolutely infallible method of identifi- cation. You know alse that tha first and most obvious method used was that of photegrapha-and tit thie mrthod proved fallible in many ‘respects. The Bartillon System was a considorable improvement ovor that of identification by photographs algne, but it war not, unfortunately, infallible, and as you know, was open to many objections. Mark Twain, a distuneuighed novelist of my country, was a half cen- tury abead of the cricinalsgiit.s. His exposition of fingerprint cvidence in his book, "Fuddin'! Head Wilnen," is comparatively accurate and his knowledge of fingerprints woo pownitly poined from a physician of Southern Italy. wno had made @ study of the velience from the standpoint of a physician rather than from the standpoint of a crininologist. f We aro rather feortunute in the United States in that officers repre- senting the Federal Goferhcont and the various State Governments throughout the United Statog hava the rleht to fingerprint any person they arrest. We have today in our fingerprint Tilos in Was shington, collected through the vol- untary cooperation of ‘houinic of law enforcement agencies throughout our s of fingcer- ogy . . mp in OP tiie ow : country and in all ptt orld, more than seven million sets of finge prints, tho largaut Psugerpeiut bureau in the world. Although we receive an. average of 4800 soln nf Fincerprints every day, we are able to identify these incoming sets of fisgapeints with prints already filed in our moré’ than seven million sets, in lean than fivo minutes’ time. During the calendar yoar 1936 : . = 2 tbe : pa > + . “ oe . ee — ™ date tf ctw ea De ee aa es ae a fe, One re a ;