Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1937, Page 12

Kidnaper Unchecked by Law In Old Days, Writes Cummings Book Recalls How Sway as Deputy U. S. Marshal and Mentions Jesse James. BY REX COLLIER. | Victims of kidnapers received little help from the Department of Justice back in 1903, before the days of the sharpshooting G-men, according to Attorney General Homer Cummings. In “Federal Justice,” a colorful his- tory of the department just published jointly by Cummings and one of his | special assistants, Carl McFarland, | there is this letter from Acting At-| torney General McReynolds to the father of a kidnaped child: “You should furnish me with the | names of the parties holding your daughter in bondage, the particular place and the names of the witnesses by whom the facts can be proved.” The letter was in reply to the fer- vent appeal e father for aid of the Gowvi in rescuing his| daughter from her captors. It was dated November 21, 1903. At that time, Cummings points out in the book, the department had no | “Special Agents” Borrowed. The “general agent's” authority was | expanded in 1905 and 32 Secret Serv- | ice men were borrowed from the | Treasury and made *special agents” of the Department of Justice. “The organization was crude,” Cum- mings states, “but here were the ori= gins of a new national investigative force.” Three vears later Congress ordered all Secret Service men withdrawn from the Department of Justice, and in 1909 the department received its first appropriation for “investigation of frauds upon the United States.” The Bureau of Investigation was created officially under that name by | organizing the bureau and placing it Attorney General George W. Wick- ersham on March 16, 1909. Bill Dalton Held The bureau was small and practi- cally unknown to the general public. In 1921, the book says, Attorney General Harry Daugherty became in- terested in the bureau and appointed William J. Burns as director. “To many this was a sordid period, echoes of which are still heard upon occa- sion,” the authors comment. Attorney General Harlan Stone, now on the Supreme Court bench, is given credit by Cummings for re- upon a high plane. By eliminating the “unfit” and instituting training and inspection requirements, it is pointed out, Stone “laid the founda- tions for a new and efficient service.” A footnote at this point says: “J. Edgar Hoover a member of the staff of the Bureau of Investigation, was appointed director by Attorney Gen=- eral Stone in 1924. He was reap- pointed by Attorney General Cum- mings in 1933.” Difficulties With Desperadoes. Cummings found the department was having its difficulties with des- peradoes both in and out of the Fed- eral service half a century ago. He found in the early files a protest by Senator Vest of Missouri as fol- lows: “Bill Dalton is walking our streets armed with a repeating gun and a commission as a deputy United States marshal.” Apparently nothing was done about it. A telegram dated April 3, 1882, frcm District Attorney Waters in Missouri told succinctly of the elimination of an early public enemy No. 1, as fol- lows: “Jesse James was killed in St. Jo- seph today.” The Attorney General’s book, issued through the MacMilllan Co., tells an | interesting story of the development | of the Department of Justice from the first days of the Republic to the‘ present. | ‘The old papers show that Willlam Wirt was the first Attorney General | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1937. to keep records. On the day of his appointment, November 13, 1817, he wrote in his own hand: “Finding on my appointment this day no books, documents or papers of any kind to inform me of what had been done by any one of my predecessors siunce the establishment of the Federal Gove ernment, and feeling very strongly the inconvenience both to the Nation and myself from this omission, I have determined to remedy it, so far as depends on myself, and to keep a regular record of every official opin- jon which I shall give while I hold this office for the use of my suc- cessors.” There was no Department of Jus- tice by that name until July 1, 1870. Prior to that time the Attorney Gen- eral was sort of a stepchild of the executive branch. From 1818 to 1850, the book dis- closes, the Attorney General had only one official clerk, who served at a small salary. Attorney General Wirt gave this clerkship to a schoolmate and then deducted from the clerk’s salary for stationery, fuel and mes- senger service. Excerpts from the aging legal docu- ments hark back to the early days of the Western frontier, with its legal and ofttimes physical disputes over timber, land rights, railroad rights of way, Indians and boundaries. They tell, also, of bitter controversies whicn led up to the Civil War—of slavery questions, acts of secession, of war. Growth of the Federal prisons sys- tem is traced from the days when prisoners were herded in flimsy shacks, through the transitional period of 1891, when the prison system was given a real start and up to the present era of modern but still over- crowded institutions. Cummings, in a foreword, calls the book a “story of men, emotions, meth- ods and motives in that crucial zone of law and government bordering upon both the courts and the executives.” — POOL NEARLY READY Anacostia Park Swimming Facili- ties to Be Completed Soon. Final inspection of the new swim- ming pool in Anacostia Park prior to its acceptance by the Federal Gov- ernment is planned for next week, C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital parks, announced today. Inclement weather, he said, has slowed up clean-up work on the job, but construction is practically com- pleted. The Anacostia pool, built with the aid of P. W. A, funds, cost $69,026. Finnan said that the new pool un- der construction in East Potomac Park is proceeding satisfactorily and will be finished by June 1. — POST FOR CURLEY SEEN | Bay State Governor to Get Philip- pines Appointment, Is Report. BOSTON, January 8 (#).—The Her- ald says Gov. James M. Curley, whose term expired yesterday, will be ap- pointed governor general of the Phil- ippines within a month by President Roosevelt. Curley declined, at his Jamaicaway home, to comment on the report. 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