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Joseph Edward Murphy, longtime assistant Chief of the Secret Service, and Grady Lee Boatwright, head of the St. Paul office, set out to see what they could get on the G-Men. Specifically they wanted to show that in killing a minor Dillinger mobster named Eddie Green in St. Paul two years ago, the Department of Justice operatives had shot without warning or cause. This plan presumably went on the rocks when Sleuth Boatwright, posing as a magazine writer in search of new material, confided it to a onetime G-Man. It was not long before the Secret Service...
Still being debated by impartial sleuths last week was whether G-Men had given Eddie Green a fair chance for his life...
Unless $25,000 is dropped from an airplane near Grant, Neb., on May 15, the life of Shirley Temple will be endangered." When Cinemactress Temple's father read this note in her fan mail three months ago, he notified G-men. Last week, by tracing the sale of the stationery in Grant, they arrested 16-year-old Farmboy Sterling Walrod Powell, voracious reader of cinemagazines, released him on $1,000 bail after he confessed...
...Navy Department first grew suspicious of Farnsworth last year when day after day he kept pestering it for information for "magazine articles," pored over books in the Naval Library. When a high-ranking officer's wife reported that he had urged her to show him certain Naval documents, G-Men joined Naval Intelligence agents in shadowing him. In May 1935, it was charged, he borrowed a U. S. Navy handbook entitled The Service of Information and Security, had it photo-stated, sold the copy to a member of the Japanese Embassy in Washington. This book, first published...
More spectacular, though less significant, than the routine of ledger experience is NACM's fraud prevention bureau, which is entirely staffed with onetime G-men. Director Charles Joseph Scully headed the Department of Justice's bomb squad in New York for years, helped bring about the deportation of Anarchist Emma Goldman. Director Scully is very proud of his rogue's gallery of leading U. S. commercial racketeers. This type of crime is lucrative, involves no physical danger, is seldom punished with jail sentences of more than three years. Typical commercial racketeers are the Brothers Minos and Pericles...