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. fag 127 pounds. He s e with | ' ’ ‘a good-humored Southern | ‘drawl. we . 5 j After he quit the FBI he : ‘served as a consultant on mo tion pictures, radio programs | and, later, television pro | grams, He acquired a radio Station and a newspaper in , Florence. | Preferred Quicter Role. But his fame rested on the - eight years be was a blood. | hound on the trail of the big- gest crooks of the day. He never relished that role. In a book ‘he published in 1936, “American Agent,” he wrote: , “1 am not a gunfighter. I am not a wily sleuth. To tell the truth I was thoroughly frightened every time it fell to my jot te carry a gun on a foray of any kind. ‘“‘There were men who served with me who never knew the emotion of fear, They belonged to the glory company of history, those joy- ous daredevils whe from time immemorial have been wait- ing for a commander to order | | a charge on the gateways of hell. 4 he Fa ara ae a . “I admire them but my | nervous system ig not built that way, I never led a raid without apprehension, and only the knowledge that there was a job to do kept me funts tioning .. .” cS He went after some of the biggest criminals of them all after World War II when he. was assigned to investigate | German and Japanese war | criminals, after serving in the | Army as acolonel. Recently, he had done some investiga- tive work for the Senate ju- dictary committee. He shot himself Monday, following a period of depression and iil "In one of his last publie ap- ° pesrances, a speech before the, National Crime Commis sludl : L. we ‘«