Evening star., 1937-04-25
Bv Rer C0lliw.

(IV Y YISE GUYS" once an
underworld term Of
" " ridicule, now is being
applied in a sense Of
deep respect to the swelling alumni
OF the G-Men's National Police
Academy.
Class room erudition, popularized
BY the gang-smashing exploits Of the
college-bred special agents of the Fed
erAl Bureau Of Investigation, no longer
- sneered at in law-enforcement
circles.
With the more-than-the Grim
nal theory Of crime detection def
nitely established as prime factor
in successful police work, the demand
for admission to Uncle Sans free
training school for State, county and
municipal police has overwhelmed the
academy.
A class OF "a officers has Just grad
uated, another of similar size is being
formed and there is long waiting
list OF police departments eager to
send picked representatives to learn
how the F. B. I. agents get their men.
Unable to accommodate all who wish
10 take the intensive 12-week course
at the Department Of Justice, the
r. B. I. IL cooperating with individual
police departments in organizing train
ing schools Of their own, modelled
along lines Of the academy.
The thirst for knowledge on the
part OF police has been accentuated
by the fact that graduates Of the
National Police Academy are demon
strating to their colleagues back home
and to gangland that Oman tech
nique in battling crime gets results.
Reports are coming almost daily to
J. Edgar Hoover and his academy fac
ulty Of battling cases cracked by
policemen who learned about clue
hunting in the conditioned school
rooms and laboratories of the bureau.
The reports show that rapid pro-
motion has been the lot of most OF
the ohicerS possessing the coveted
graduation certificate of the academy.
AMoNG things that Trooper Leo J.
Mulcahy of the Connecticut State
police learned to do at the academy
some months ago was to preserve
evidence at the scene of q crime by
the art Of moulage. This is delicate
process Of recording footprints, tire
tracks, teeth marks in food, tool marks
on wood or metal and other scratches,
indentations and similar surface irreg-
ularies left by the criminal.
Painstakingly he was shown by F.
3. I. moulage experts how to make
cast Of tire rut in snow or mud, so
that the impression can be studied
long after the original mark has dis
appeared.
He was instructed also in the science
Of glass fractures-how to reconstruct
. broken windshield or headlight lens
and determine the nature and direc-
tion Of the blow which caused the
fracture.
The "fatfoot" of another day doubt
lAss would have scoffed at ouch infor-
nation as useless knowledge" of value
only to the detective story writer.
Not long after Trooper Mulcahy re-
turned to his station and framed his
diploma he was called to investigate
q hit-and-run case in which q reck-
less driver fatally wounded boy and
he'd from the scene.
At the scene Of the accident Mulcahy
discovered tire track. apparently
made by the death car. Scattered
nearby were fragments Of glass from
An automobile.
The trooper carefully collected the
glass fragments and made = cast Of
the tire marks in the earth.
As a result Of an intensive search
IN automobile suspected Of being the
death car was found. .Mulcahy COM
pared the cast with the tread Of the
tires on the suspected car and found
that certain imperfections in the tread
OF one tire exactly fitted uarks left
at the scene OF the fatal accident.
The glass also was found to match
broken glass on the car.
Armed with this evidence, Mulcahy
arrested the driver, confronted him
with the findings and obtained con-
fession.
4IOOpcI MuACd4Ay 4AsS UccA PAoA1oo0Sa
to lieutenant and has been placed
tn charge of the Connecticut State
Police Training School.
DETECTIVE SERGT. FRED PHIL
BY of Louisville, KY, learned
about latent fingerprints from 'Beu-
lah," antiquated automobile to whom
all G-Men and police students are
introduced. in connection with finger
print studies. Under the tutelage of
r. B. I. experts he became skilled in
developing invisible prints by the ap-
plication of special powders or chem
ica1
Last September he was assigned to
investigate the hold-up Of Spanish