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Ruth Farneworth murder tn Guam. According te the — article, the work dene by the chtef chenist ef that laboratory played a big part in bringing the ktllers to justice. This claim was erroneous stance the testineny at the trial was furntsahed by a Spectal Agent eof the Bureau's Laboratory. (95-29057-44) _ In 1930, Goddard made a ballistte erantnatien tn the nurder case of Mary Baker in Virginta, and took the stand tn connection with the trial of one Campbell. Campbell subsequently brought eutt against Geddard fer libel and consequential damage in the anount of $500,000. The sutt was allegedly based on an answer made by Goddard to a reporter the day before the trtal tn which Goddard said his analysis had identified the fatal bullet with the pistol and, tf the ptetol had never left the hands ef Campbell, then Canpbell would be the guilty person. This sutt was withdraun tn October, 1932. Campbell was never convicted and the Baker case ts sttll unsolved. (70-1056-24 In 1931, Goddard testified in another trtal as to the tdentification of a fatal bullet with a recovered gun and used photegraphiec charts to tllustrate his identift- catton. The jury returned the verdict of "Not Gutlty*. Subsequently, another suspect was trted for the murder and convicted. The conuteted subject signed a confession and tdentified the gun with which he had committed the murder. The Chteago Office of the Bureau afterwards ob-= tatned the charts used by Goddard and a study of them by the Bureau firearms experts brought the concluston that the photographs contradicted rather than substantiated the identtfication. (80-89-33-6) In Mareh, 1938, tnformatten was recetved that in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Goddard had made an examination of an autematic pistol supposedly taken from Sacco and informed the prosecuting attorney that while the bullet found in the deceased person was of the same ealibre, he would not testify that it came from Sacco’s gun. At the tnsistenoe of the prosecuting official, however, Geddard dtd take the stand and testified that, due te the caltbre of the slug taken from the body of the dead person, tt was possible that tt could have been fired from such a gun as that taken from Sacco. Fhen the case came up fer ~ 15 - emer