Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14

Crime Detection Laboratory will discount per-
sonal opinion in favor of cold, scientific facts.
Facts that reveal themselves only to the eye
of the microscope, the spectroscope the nil
croscopic camera. Facts that assert themselves
to the hiochemist, the physicist, the medico-
legal expert and the authority on forensic ball
listics. Facts that, weighed with other known
evidence, should enable society to punish the
guilty and free the innocent.
This "crime clinic" has been set up in q
modest building on what is known as McKin-
lock Campus in East Chicago, overlooking Lake
Shore drive. It's destiny has been placed in the
hand Of specialist in the fine art of firearms
Identification, Col Goddard U. S. A, Reserve
Corps.
Col. Goddard, tall, heayy-set man Of genial
countenance and businesslike ways, does not at
all fit the popular conception of the hawk-eyed,
abrupt Sherlock Holmes. More aptly could he
be lkened to Holmes friend and adviser DIR.
Watson. In fact Col. Goddard some years ago
was follower of DIR. Watsons chosen profess
sion. medicine. having graduated from Johns
Hopkins and from the Army Medical School
and having served as a surgeon in France,
Poland and Germany during and after the
World War
It was during his service in the Army that
Goddard became interested, at first as a hobby,
in the study of small firearms. The hobby be-
came an avocation and finally unseated medi-
cine as Goddards chief vocation The new
professional could scarcely be termed that
when Goddard first took it up-brought the
Army surgeon an unexpected measure of fame.
He became an expert in the little explored
field of police balliStics, a consultant whose
technical testimony concerning fatal guns and
bullets was sought by prosecutors and accepted
by juries. His services played an important role
in the Hall-NIills murder case in the Sacco-
Vanzetu trial and in many other notorious
criminal proceedings.
THEN came the st. Valentines day gang mas
sacre in Chicago. Seven followers of Bugs"
Moran lined up against garage wall and
moved down with the machine guns by rival
racketeers. An outraged citizenry aroused to
decisive action, called on Goddard for aid in
solving the CHASTITY crime. Goddard showed
that the rain of lead had spurted from two
Thompson sub-machine guns-s'Tommies'' the
gangsters have dubbed them-and later iCien-
titled two captured guns of that type as the
ones used in the slaughter
Northwestern Universitys crime laboratory
was born OF that massacre. The first step in
its creation was taken by DR. Herman NJ Bum
oeson, coroner OF Chicago In conference with
number of the citys outstanding citizens the
coroner laid plans for a permanent crime de-.
lection bureau, the chief purpose of which at
the outset was to secure Goddard's services on
year-around basis.
wy AiSe 1tuuSAe, LIZ buAueS0n explained
TO the writer, was to establish crime labora-
tory under the municipality but soon realized
this would not do. Such a laboratory to be
effective must be outside the pale of politics
and divorced from all petty and narrow influ-
ences. talked the matter over with num-
Der of prominent men who had interested them-
selves in the city'S efforts to abolish ganglanS
may mention particularly Bert A. MaSsee.
soap company executive, and Walter EDISON,
rug manufacturer Mr. Massee and Mr.. Olson
were members Of the coroner's jury which In