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. UrHAr ie just a chapter—aibeit the’ climate , Chapter—in the story of the investigating that ended in Capone's sentence to eleven years in prison. The whole story would have to cover months of painstaking accumula- _ tion of fragmentary bits of evidence, pieces of a gigantic jig-saw puzzle patiently assem- Died. tte Mr. Wilson began to put it togetber im the summer of 1929, when he was sent to Chicago " for five month: to work on the Lake and Druggan cases. That, done, he returned to Baltimore, not to go back to Chicago for the final clean-up until May 1, 1930. It was then * that he took charge of the Capone case and embarked upon a (ask that was not completed until November, 1631. eighteen months later. “The reports that we bad an ‘army’ of men working on the case were just a little exaggerated,” Mr. Wilson said. “As a matter of fact, seldom were there more than eight of us, and only five were sent to Chicago for that particular purpose. I believe 1 was se- lected because of my familiarity with Chi- cago. I had worked there on and off since 1920. I bad the very efficient cooperation of Agents H. N. Clagett, W. C. Hodgias, J. C. Westreich, Nak Tessem, M. F, Malone, J. Sullivan and many other offers of the Bue reau of Internal Revenue in gathering the evidence.” As be talked, Mr. Wilson, who will be 42 in June, chewed his cigar. The ace investiga- tor's desk was strewn with papers. There was one book—a volume on birds Mr. Wilson was transferred to the Balti- more por alee Lise weelegs Eve years ago, wo that be could settle down, wouldn't have to travel any more. He smiles when he speaks ‘of it, smiles because in the last four years he has spent only about nine months in all in Baltimore. The rest of the time the house be and Mrs. Wilson bought has been closed. «~ MRS. WILSON accompanied him to Chicago when he went there to take up the Capone trail. It is an evidence of the secrecy with which be and his colleagues worked that for the first nine months they were there Mrs. Wilson thought be was “investigating some politicians.” Mr, Wilson was born in Buffalo and schooled there. He studied law for a while at the Uni- versity of Buffalo, then embarked in the real estate business. He enlisted in 1917, bet was discharged from the army after a few months for defective sight. Then be joined the Food Administration 2s an investigator, bis ‘frst Federal post, and until the end of the war ) ple recently when one of the Socal chain sys- ~" fems was having a slight and altogetbet7wr- . justified run on one of its outlying branches. ‘They hurtiedly withdrew their funds from > this branch and, rushing down to the center te Of the town, redeposited them in the main ‘A PECULIAR CUSTOM observa! by 2 family of five was for each of them to-give the “others @ $5 gold piece at Christmas, One coin would have done the work, but twenty of them were iiways solemnly withdrawn just before the holidays and just as solemnly returned to the several accounts a few days thereafter, A depositor who was a doctor made it a tule to place whatever fees he collected in the nearest bank in whichever town be hap- La/7i mire Sun PDrarch 20 (G72.