The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-02
THE STORY OF 1894 -----
By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE

By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE
 WASHINGTON, Jan. D. Dread name after dread name was rub bed off the nations list of public enemies in 1884 as the federal gov ernment gave blasting answer to the challenge of gangland's killers.
 The Department of Justice, which in 1893 had joined with state and municipal law enforcement agen- cies in a smashing drive on the Kidnapping racket. directed it's off, fensive against a coterie of des- peradoes whose murderous exploits had spread terror among peace of ficers and citizens.
 In showers of lead from the guns of federal agents, John Dillin- ger, Charles Pretty Boy" Floyd, George Baby Face" Nelson and others encountered the same kind of death they themselves had dis pensed so ruthlessly
 Patiently pressing their quest for the perpetrator of the Lindbergh abduction- murder, investigators of the Department of Justice as- sisted New York and New Jersey police in running down the clues which led to the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the crime of the century,
 Law Reaches Out
 Fast work by the division of in- vestigation resulted in the return within six days after her abduction of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, socially prominent young matron of Louis vile. Thomas Robinson, Jr., of Nashville, was named as the kid naper
 The pace set by federal, state and local officers in bringing kid napers and killers to summary jus tice was hailed throughout the na- ton as evidence that an aroused public, supporting energetic and CO., ordinated police action, can tri- umph over an audacious under world.
 From the enactment in July 1892, of the Lindbergh Kidnapping law to the capture of Hauptmann, federal agents had investigated 29 major abduction cases-and 27 of them had been solved. In those cases, "A persons were convicted, Is life sentences and two death penalties were imposed while the grand to t al of prison terms amounted to 1,236 years, accord ing to federal officers.
 Singly, in pairs, and in larger groups, violators of the law were marched to death or to prison cells. In the last fiscal year, investi- gators located BPS fugitives from federal justice while fingerprint work of the identification unit re- suited in the tracking down of A., 356 persons wanted for offenses of all kinds.
 A year of extraordinary on- slaught on the forces of gangland cost the division of investigation the loss of three of it's most cap able agents. w. Carter Baum, Sam uel P. Cowley and Herman E. Hol lis met death in fusillades from gangster guns.
 Another development of the year in the war on crime was the con- version of the military prison on Alcatraz Island, off San Francis co.'s famed Golden Gate, into an escape proof" penite ntiary for dangerous federal prisoners. This isolated Bastile holds George Ma chine Gun" Kelly, his notorious confederate, Harvey Bailey, Al Ca pone and sundry other scofflaws
 Undressing the nations drive on outlaws was the twelve point" criminal legislative program enact ed by Congress. This provided drastic penalties including death sentences for Kidnapping and extor- ton with certain interstate fea- lures, for national bank robberieS, assaults on certain classes of fed eral officers. and commercial racke- teering.
 The national government was authorized to use its taxing power to regulate the sale, transportation and possession of machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and other wea- pons of the underworld.
 The division of investigation steadily increased its force and modernized it's equipment. New