Evening star., 1921-12-04

.I want YOU to cooperate with every
police department., with every sheriff
and police officer in the country. with
view to getting the very closest
cooperation SO that in time the state
authorities and the federal authorities
will be functioning as one institu-
ton" that is what his friend Harry
NJ Daugherty said to Burns when he
started him on the job of reorcaniz-
ing the federal bureau of inSesiiSa-
tion.
THAT strengthens the hands of the
various police departments through
out the entire United States" Mr.
Burns explains. When man gets be-
yond the jurisdiction of any local
authority he is still not safe because
he has the United states government
to deal with, for it becomes an inter
state matter when the thieves and
outlaws go from one district to an
other
Mr. Daugherty said he wanted me
to organize in Washington a central
bureau of identification that would
register the record, fiingerprintS. pho
tographs and all other available in
formation concerning every known
criminal active today in this country
as well as of the best known interna
tional crooks" said MIR. Burns. In this
statement he raises the curtain on
the second big innovation in the
tabiishment of an American Scotland
, Yard
} There is to be set up here the great
est mug gallery, the greatest museum
or crooks, the greatest library OF
criminal information. the greatest bu-
reau of identification that ever exist
! ed anywhere under the sun.
Mr.. Burns. after preliminary con,
ference with the officers of the Ma
tional Police Chiefs Association, has
invited the governors of that organi-
| Zation to confer here the last of this
! month with Attorney General Daugh-
erty and himself Maj Richard Syl-
Vester, former superintendent of the
metropolitan police force in Washing
ton and formerly president Of the po-
nee chiefs organization, with Chief of
Police GUILTY OF Rochester, y. V. are
cooperating with Mr.. Burns for this
conference. The plan under considera-
| lion is for combining the present ma
! tlonal bureau of criminal identifca-
tion, financed by the various police de-
| partments throughout the country.
| with headquarters in Washington.
| with the federal governments bureau
/ OF Identification maintained at Leav-
enworth, Kan. 1t is proposed to es-
; laollsh here one incompatible
'rogues gallery to which all the
police officers of the country, no mat
| ter how small the community, could
nave instant access tWenty-four hours
day. II is said that under this ar
rangement more than 100 bureaus OF
identification throughout the country.
be merged into one great reservoir
OF information regarding criminals.
All this would reduce to a mini
mum the possibility of crook es-
Gaping justice. when every peace otli-
Ger in the country is looking for
him. guided by full information about
him. and a force of trained govern
, ment agents working with them. The
criminal viii not be safe even when
/ he goes to Europe. Mr.. Burns eX-
4 harn al
| to cooperate with the police bureaus
! OF Europe. And in carrying out al!
TINS. ~ VIII reduce to an efficient
! minimum not only the expenses Of
/ the various police establishments.
! but also of the federal service"
/ THIS central Establishment in the
/ Department of Justice, according
TO Mr.. Burns, will be of great service
to the police departments when they
are seeking to arrest and extradit.
noted criminals from abroad. Through
| the State Department the federal
bureau will facilitate all this, which
at the present time is a great in
convenience. trouble and annoyance
to the several police departments.
| The establishment of the rogues'
gallery in Washington will mean
| Immediately the assemblage here of
records of more than 100000 crimi-
| nais Mr. Burns is especially en-
thusiastic regarding the wonderful
| accomplishments of the activities OF
| fingerprint experts. Recently a man
was found dead in Maine. with moth
| ing IN his pockets or marks on his
clothing to identify him. His finger
prints were taken, and sent to A. J.
l n an han
ment OF Justices bureau of identifi-
cation at Leavenworth. Reno searched
| the MES and promptly identified the
i oead man as an internationally ia
| nous criminal. His associates are
now being rounded mp.
| Another example given by Mr. Rurns
| rs Where man was found murdered
In Minnesota. Again the fingerprints
were sent TO Mr.. Reno, who replied
that the man was very famous
criminal sought for years on two acS-
| .ieNts, ana then recorded as dead"
| x X !,
1nCT of his own Worldwide and
~ successful experience for thirty
years, with some OF the most sensa-
I tionai and important cases of modern
times to his credit, Detective Burns
| VIII personally aid the school-trained
special agents with advice and coun-
| sci. The first great case that brought Z
| national recognition to Mr.. Burns
| was what is known at the Philadel-
| ph1a-Lancaster counterfeiting expose.
Ihis still stands as the greatest
counterfeiting case ever perpetrated
| against the government. A S10O Nom
roe head silver certificate was being
copied so successfully That the best
| experts of the government were be-
ing deceived. Burns deduced that a
camera had been used and the print
ing done from a steel plate This
/ htvr, fhof
| sible must be high up in the mechan-
ical processes. He went hunting for
such men. In three weeks time he
had located the plant in Philadelphia,
1 but 1T took him more than a year to
work up the evidence. This led to
| the arrest and conviction of thirteen
conspirators.
| His really first case of any impor-
tance was in rounding up the Costa
| Rica counterfeiters. Revolutionists.
to get money with when to cnange
| their form of government, tried to
kill two birds with one stone. They
counterfeited the Costa Rica 100-peso
| notes. thus undermining the mone-
tary system. Burns seized 1000. 900
of counterfeit money. He located the
plates from which they had been
printed in the bottom of the Hudson
| river and discovered as one of tho
principals Frederick de Mora, grand
SON of the first president of Costa
Rica.
Then he broke up the famous Bill
Brockway gang of counterfeiters.
who were doing mighty neat job
on $500 gold certificates. He recov-
cred more than 100000 worth OF
their product in den in Hoboken.
Still well remembered are the gil
gantic land frauds, in which the gov
ernment was being robbed of millions
of acres of timber and mineral and
Oil lands. President Roosevelt had
received notice from the Interior De-