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will retire one of its storied T-men this month, with the “T” in this case standing for tops. He is Malachi L. Harney, ‘58, Sof 4325 Verplanck ‘st. nw., and only two decades ago the news his retirement might well have inspired a lot of unholy Fejoicing \in- some vicious ; Among some of the calmest urderers of a not-so-bygone Mere mention of Mal arney’s name provoked cases bolicemen the world over, he has been revered as. “g cop’s POD gomewhat ironically, the well- behaved workaday world — so ouch the more liveable for his efforts—almost knows him not. Be flourished in an age which evity.: . © Behind him are 36 years of fantastic Federal policeman. p, the last 20 or so in ad- Far too many people still re- with an involuntary shud- der the name of the late Louis -Ruchalter. Yet, far too. many others-are-tdd young to ” -etht, or the heroics his ruth-: i Serworld reign inspired | “ose charged with the] ‘age of human order in! -Mictions, . - | ’setroeuted inj ‘on March 4,| , © eight years; w=» «-#ooklyn candy. “Gekeeper. _. —w | incurable ‘jitters. . Among ; = Conversely, however, and/f rewarded anonymity with lon-/f ow profitably of the ruin he Me. Tolson —_— Nr. Boardman __— Mr. Nichols ——— Mr. Belmont ——— Mr. Harbo _--__—— Nr. Mohr Mr. Parsons —— Me. Rosen ——_—— Me. Tamm ———-- Nr, Sizoo —_-__— Mr, Wincerrowd — Tele. Room —— Nr. Holloman — Miss Gandy ——— ~The . ours in him—and one thing sort ies of led to another end all -of), {them led us to Lepke.” =. - js { The next thing the bewild-i, ered gang overlord knew, he?’ cotics laws and a dozen legal mouthpieces were shouting into rain-barrels all the way up to the United States Supreme ‘Court in vain efforts to effect: : his release... .. - ! " ‘ins “Eventually, New York had: e University of Minnesota. A Seer ae cra peeeident| from piysics to, pevelcal educa it was able to petition en! m phy: . a Roosevelt for another chance at on in high schools of the vi- e fish it had been unable’ to | land. Lepke was a sitting duck, of World War I duty with The hot seat at Sing Sing e Marine Corps... -. cooled off only rarely as a | He entered the Treasury en- steady procession of Murder, forcement field, he said, “be-|; ¢., principals slumped, s cause I felt like so many others red, or were carried into #s | who came out of World War igh voltage arms. . |... that the peacetime world|| Lepke himself went - quiet eld little enough action for & #the last of three to pay wi who craved it—and I Directly or indirectly, how. , eir lives for the eandy sto r, sithorities had dmplicated iMpeper’s murder. - inistrati - ngs—cold-blooded killin ings car. Even-had ‘the -switch beer ipacities Bace 1086 Fis last vied out at ¢ a wats for those lective, or al political light turn as a “cop on the beat tims out of the way. ic- Hl ning bolt laid low his execution-',was‘a typical one. He went ou ; .. Tonks \ito St. Paul a-few years ago to! He was wanted for murder, |fj°> 3¢ the last "moment, Leple| hae out” with a case involv- extortion and a whole series of|}\sat a. doomed man in that chair’ i a T-man. violations lumped under the||—still liable for the rest of the |HE, (06 Slaying of & Omen. feneral heading of racketeer-|[14 years prison time he owed o> enforcement gods ing. In the course of the two|§ Mal Harney and his T-men. —tihining brightly in his lexico years he was in “hiding,” police It is-possible that Lepke died | " ‘flesh-and-blood ‘policeme: :” His rise through the ranks ‘was rapid and he has been 43, ~ Officials sworn to bring him in|Junable to put his finger on the were bought off and aid for |}iman who fingered him—on a ——————— hey are Narcotics Comm oner Harry Anslinger and the te Elmer T. Irey, chief of.the asury Depariment’s Intelli- gence Division. He considers them “two of the completest - policemen of our generation.” _ ‘His own plans for the futufe are facetiously. “indefinite.” . - “Whenever things are left ¥ to your wife,” he explains, “it- always safe to call them “ definite’” ~~ QL Caterer their silence on his where-|{jman from whose lips today drop abouts—the while Lepke hench-|Jleasily such _halfforgotten men ranged abroad on the grim|{jmames as Harry (Happy) business’ of eradicating every |}| Malone, Harry (Pittsburgh Phil) last man who could possibly |fjStrauss, Frank (The Dasher) testify against him. . Abbadando, Martin (Buggsy) In his own boasting words,|||Goldstein, Max (The Jerk) Go he “never left Manhattan.” . In the modest recollection of || /Pone,. Emanuel (Mendy) Weiss, Mal Harney, “Lepke niade only A ‘one - mistake.” He aroused the Harney himself makes sparse official interest of the Treasury || \use of the so-called. vertical Department in his activities, || |pronoun “I”. His accounts -of -- Harney was in ‘narcotics ‘at| {his exploits as a top-echelon T- the time, he recalled, tackling} {man eall consistently for the anything or anybody that came} ]¥Sé ’ ;his jurisdictional way in that! {ute to the singleness of purpose {insidious traffic... ; " he worked. ' “/ctually,” he remembered, pke’s decision to’ cut ‘him- lf in’ on the- international otics traffic was.a casual; inane UNDAY, 1/1/56 bo—15 of ~A NOT RECORDED once 12 3357 hsubA sect, 13