Plentywood herald., 1932-11-24
MURDER WILL OUT
THEORY EXPLODED
BY DETECTIVES
Killers Never Return TO Scene
of Crime, Says Chicago
Sleuth.

that murder will out" does not work
out In practicable police work. Chief
Of Detectives. William A. Shoemaker
said as he pored over the headquarter
records OF unsolved murder cases. Up
until the time that the activities of
the federal government coupled with
the local authorities made raeketeer-
Ing Improbable there had been GA
sOscaiier gang killings in the greater
Chicago district without any of them
being solved.
Chief Shoemaker said that the pop
ular thought that murderers return TO
the scene of their crime or come to
take 4 farewell look at their victim is
not an actuality. Few cases are on
record where Killer. prodded by his
own conscience, has surrendered TO
the police. Now and then such rar-
ity occurs, the detective chief said, but
never in the eases of gangland kill
ings.
Gunmen Have No Conscience.
he gangster has no conscience,
said Chief Shoemaker Il have had
such fellows as George tBugs1 Moran
and Leo Mongoven tell me in this very.
Office that they have no conscience.
that ii is case of survival of the
fittest"
These fellows who write the story
books and movie scenarios have some
good theories but if they were keeping
the homicide records in real police
station they would find out that the
idea that murder will out is just the
bunk" said George Shuman, who has
been the. bureau statistieian for IS
years.
Murderers as rule are harder to
catch than any other criminals. Once
In while the murderers make a slip
and leave behind clew which, by
good detective work, leads to the solu-
ti0n of the crime. However, the police
have long since abandoned the theories
that murder will out of Its own ac-
cord and they have ceased to sit at
the scene of the crime waiting for the
murderers to return.
One Illustration of how minor
slip by the criminal brought about the
arrest of the famous Richard (Dickie)
Loeb and Nathan Leopold case. After
Staying little Bobbie Franks, son of q
wealthy man, one Of the murderers
made the mistake Of dropping his
glasses. The police were able to trace
the glasses, solve the crime, and
bring about life sentence for the
killers.
1.-The Loeb-Leopold case is an ex-
ception to the general rule" said
Shoemaker seldom do killers even
leave us that much of cleW. Gen
orally we have to grope around In the
darkness until we stumble across
something which leads US to the
Killers
Veterans at police headquarters say
that the informer system Of the pres
ent day Is much more effective than
any other method In solving crimes.
Science Not Much Help.
Even the scientific discoveries OF re-
cent years have failed to aid the po-
lice much In solving gang killings or
murders. Often these devices have
aided the police In satisfying their
own minds as to who killed who. but
have not been of much aid In getting
evidence upon Which jury can CON
vict.
The science of ballstics by which
experts say they can tell that Ger
tain bullet was fired from d certain
gun has not been OF material aid In.
sofar as court proceedings are con-
cerDed. The courts look on this sci
ence with some skepticism unless there
Is other corroborating evidence. The
science, however, does aid the police
In satisfying themselves on certain In
formation obtained through stool
pigeons.
The murders which have been solved,
and the Chicago police cleared up 261
In 1891. are those resulting from de-
tective work over periods of weeks
and months and not as a result of an
aching conscience or desire OF the
murderer to take last look at his
handiw0rk, said the police chief.