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a _ SNe Owe dtRUe UNE OW mM LOMB OOO IRVR UN OOO eo eh “ON By) Times ws Rf McCarthy 2 Gagaeia, 1983, ty King Features Syndicate, lac, an bleak, lonely hills of the Osage Indian Ml! country were dotted with signal fires that jee. «get aflame’ the late Spring evening sky. From every direction came the steady, rhythmic ‘beat. of -the tom-tom, rising and subsiding in 7 ves ofpminous’ sound. ‘Terror ati tragedy were in the flames and ‘the drums, for’ “they told of the murder of.Anna Brown, one of the most beautiful. and wealthiest ‘gembas ‘of the Osage tribe. This was not in another jiand or another time. twas onthe Indian Reservition of the Osage:, 5 ‘rolling country of tall, green limesiose grass in lhe northeastern part of Oklahoma. Ii was in . 7 -1921—a black year that brought the first of a. ong series of mysterious murders which took the” GSS. Government six years 10 solve. f.--That. final solution, brought about through _dthe “extraordinary ingenuity of special agents “wtrom the Department of Just.ce, Bureau of In- Mestization, provided an appalling and grim pic- “ure of a community coerced hy fear. It led to. ' the rounding up of a notorious band of fugitives from justice who had preyed upon a tribe of . Indians auddenly made rich t be « discovery of pul on their land. Finally, it placed 1 behind prison jars for life the ‘master mind ‘who, alth ough a hite man, ruled over the terror-stricken reserva- ion ‘with blood and steel. ~ 4¥-. The manner in which the government sleuths yerformed this feat is an absorbing example of ow the Bureau of Investigation trains its men for any emergency and problem. Newly ap- pointed agents are put through an intensive theo- retical and practical training in- the Training School at Washington. The instructions are divided into administrative duties, technical, Jegal, ‘scientific and investigation work. ack special agent i is trained to investigate and to prepare legal reports on violations of all Federal nd civil Jaws. In other words, he must be preplred to get al/-the evidence, plan it and present & intelligently in court. This is important. . It. explains why the Bureau of Investigation ob-— ~~ ‘tains co victions in 93.7 per cent of all its cases “tried in fourt. + ¥" Important in the new recruit’s training is the fact that he receives detailed instruction in the ‘proper method of taking, classifying and “search- ing” fingerprint impressions. He is instructed in ‘ballistics jdentification document identification ipby) eRe . ‘uses; of, comparison? mi fnocular microscopes “and ‘ultracviolet* ‘scopes, ray machines—and, of course, the usc of firearms. ‘tion, In the vicinity of th world” ‘at dsrpes orca, ct Mae + “? a fFhe: Story," of how .they” : igiting “and, typewriting), Smiere TrO= Before he is assigned to a real: Sb given theoretical cases to solve—mud beries, frauds, ete. Then he accompée nh eran special agent on a real case, after submits his own report on it. If that 2 dicates that he is ready to take up the bility of a special agent he is detailed= im the Bureau's twenty-two field officés, ] the following cities: ; Birmingham, Charlotte, Chicago, 7) Dallas, Detroit, Honolulu, Jacksonvilieaae City, Los. Angeles, New. Orleans, Mell Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Pittsber4 land, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San F St. Louis, St. Paul and ‘Washington: a The importance of these cffices 1m. demonstrated frequently in many cases % the government ostensibly has no intergM. ° instance, it stepped in when little Virgin was murdered in San Diego, Cal., and roi Mary Baker, a Navy Department. el: ai capital, was slain, True, enough, -4 these remain unsolved mysteries. But it is when a crime is com- mitted on government property, such as an Indian Reservation, that the Bureau of Identifica- tion has sole jurisdiction. Then it is possible to see how. effici- ently its machinery operates, The Osage Indian crimes were by no means the first of their kind. At about the same time, crimes were being committed— chiefly murders—on other Indian territory, such as the Apache and Navajo reservations. And what the special agents of the Bureau quickly discovered was that the solution of a crime on ‘. Indian territory is considerably oe more difficult than in the under- x: world haunts of the white man. r f i 4 OR instance, it took agents four years to solve the mur- cerof Frank Dugan, a one-armed trader on the Navajo Reserva- ‘ Painted Desert, northeastern Arizolld ' During: all that time agents were compeiled t He av back over vast desert stretees and wilernes of mountains. They carried their ow orevisions. camped at night at wells or springs %, 1 were oat off for weeks from all cor municcd “4a jth the: oy” ‘thar | “of thé wild, weird Chant, deserves, and will receive. &