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Blank 4 Htrouler Photo. — ; Robert Isham Randolph, Whe Leady Chicage’s Crime Fight. - ns ae Imingl prosecutions, but they are, peu ob a public roll which contains er nathes and sddresses: The wo- @erworld knows who they are, where they live, and what their job is. ‘Under such circumstances it is very difficult and dangerous for those men to get the kind of evidence wa eed to secure convictions in erim!-, nal cases. If you want to be helpful ih I suggest that you organize a real {secret service, in which the opera- tives are not known to any one but the director, perhape not even known to one another. If you can supply these men with money enough to run jwith the wolf pack and buy Informa- {ton from the jackals who trail the (pack you can get the kind of evi- (dence we need to secitre convictions. “With that kind of evidence and with _Money enough to protect witnesses any of the Assistant State's Attor- “Reys on my staff can secure convic- ‘tions, and without It the best lawyer ‘fm the efty can’t.”” We undertook the job, and the first | ‘ problem was one of ways and means, } men and money. Some of the com ' terees were not sold on the plan. { “I don't think things are bad’ qough yet,” said one of them.; } “Every time we have a gang billing we have the collateral benefit of get- “ting rid of an undesirable citizen or two. I think we ought to wait unti! ‘they ‘Kill one of us.” . ‘ * I suggested that the alternative did not make « very strong appeal to me ‘Decause I happened ‘to be standing Sout in front, and he said he was not ‘offering himself a « sacrifice either. WThe success of the plan wis finally’ are proceeding slong the right oa. I haven't tims to stay hare’ but . by gi ‘ng him a leave of absence for thi purpose and we were fortunate Negaty constituted euthorittes, “Wa have only furnished them with ==. extra weapon and wa have had ties finest kind of cooperation from the national. . «se wd ‘We use the services ‘of. the fei! tiflo Crime Detection Purposes of evidence; ; microscopio examinations ef ‘Kinds; and chemical and bactertologt- eal analyses, to say nothing of the Hie detector, that uncanny machine that trips up the most accomplished Har, trained detectives in making tive deductions. There are operating subjectively fuce amazing results, but the Sher, k Holmes of fiction is very largely’ fiction and the best detectives to-} are those who have the most oa