Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-27
us. CRIME BUREAU
EMPLOYS LATEST
SCIENTIFIC DEVICES
Federal Detectives to Attend
Chicago Symposium for
Advanced Methods.
NATIONAL LABORATORY
is DESIRE OF DIRECTOR
Sherlock Holmes Being odtdone at
Clinic, Which J. Edgar Hoover
and Aides Will Attend.

Ultra modern detectives of the
United States Bureau of Investigation
are being trained to out-Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes under arrangements
for keeping abreast of developments in
investigative technique formulated by
the director of the bureau, j. Edgar
Hoover.
Himself one of the Governments ex-
pert investigators and deep student
of modern-day methods of scientific
crime detection, the youthful director
of the Governments most versatile de-
tective force is thorough believer In
science as q formidable weapon against
crime.
In line with this conviction, Hoover
has accepted an invitation from North
western University to have his bureau
represented at a novel Crime SYM
postum" to be held in Chicago begin
ming today in connection with the
formal opening Of the universities new
scientific crime detection laboratory.
Dnring the symposium, to continue
the remainder of the week, some of
Americas outstanding opponents and
practitioners of scientific crime detec-
ton will describe the latest devices and
methods developed to dismay the
criminal.
WIZ View Crime Clinic.
As climax to the meeting, the in
vited guests will be given their first
. view of the universitys "clinic on
crime" recently established with the
aid Of private capital under the direc-
ton OF the well known criminologist
and ballistics expert Col. Calvin II.
Goddard. The laboratory, patterned
after leading European scientific po-
lice bureaus" is the only one of its
kind in America.
Hoover plans to attend the symposium
himself and also has instructed two of
his inspectors to be present. The latter
are John NJ. Keith, So-called dean" of
the bureaus detective university" in
which special agents are schooled in the
latest chronological advances, and
Thomas j. Cullen, another of Hoover's
crack investigators and administrative
assistants.
Sherlock Holmes Coming Into Own.
Sherlockian methods of investigation,
Icing scorned by police detectives of the
old school, now are coming into their
own. The late Conan Doyle no longer
is looked upon Merely as an imaginative
writer of interesting mystery stories,
but as a sincere propaganda, as 1t
were, for really scientific criminology.
Dust, which told such eloquent
stories to the perceptive Holmes, is be-
ing made to speak again under the mi
croscopeS of university, police and Gov
eminent scientists. Mud, which helped
Doyle's famous detective IN his geo.
graphical deductions, actually Is solving
modern-day mysteries. More than that,
Col, Goddard and other microScopists
have gone farther than Sherlock Holmes
ever dared, for they are reading in
eliminating facts on fatal bullets and
their shells. .
Many of the latest achievements in
the field of police investigation are to
be described on the opening day of
the Chicago symposium by Col. God
dard, who is managing director of the
university's crime laboratory and oc-
cupant of a newly-created chair of
forensic ballastics. He will address the
meeting on Scientific Methods for the
Detection of Crime" and also, later, on
his particular hobby, THE Identiflca-
ton of Guns and Bullets"
VIII Demonstrate Lie DetectOr.
The "lie detector," with which the
university Is experimenting, win be
demonstrated by its sponsor, Leonardo
Keeler, formerly Of Stanford Univer-
sity. Use of ultraviolet light in crime
detection will be explained by DR.. A.
j. Pacini Of the Pacini Laboratories,
Chicago.
DR.. Clarence w. Muehlberger, State
toxicoiogist of Wisconsin and poison ex-
pert of the Northwestern Laboratory,
will speak on 1.-THE Application of Chem
istry to Crime Detection" Jay Fordyce
Wood, who has had notable success in
identifying forgeries, will discuss "Ques-
toned Documents and the Examination
of Handwriting and Typewriting. "
Functions of the medical expert in crime
investigations will be explained by Prof.
j. P. Simonds of the Northwestern Uni
versity Medical School
One of the interesting features will
be a demonstration of the curious new
chronological art of "moulage," or the
use Of wax and plaster casts in iden-
tification Of criminals and their victims
Moulage has been perfected by In
spector Ferdinand Watzek Viennese
police expert, who will conduct the dem
onstration in his laboratory at the uni
versity.
Introductory addresses will be deliv-
cred by DR.. Herman N. Bundeson, cor
oner of Cook County, who has taken a
leading part in creation of the univer-
slty's crime laboratory, and Prof. John
H. WiEmore, dean emeritus OF the North
western Law School.
Ohicials of the Bureau of Investiga-
ton have been following closely North
western Uniyersity's crime research
movement, for it parallels an idea that
has been forming for some time in the
mind of Director Hoover. The idea
some day may result in the creation
of a national crime detection laboratory
under auspices of the justice Bureau.
Hoover is an enthusiastic leader in
the new school of scientific crime de-
lection and has inoccnlated his asso-
GATES with similar enthusiasm.
Il believe we should keep ourselves
informed as to the very latest devices
and processes for the apprehension Of
criminals and the investigation Of
crime" Hoover announced. THAT il
why we are going1to attend the sympo.
eiy,T,1 in Chicago -"