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i ™ Interest in relating science to crime investigations picked up mo- entum in 1929. In that year the FBI began assembling a library of Isai books and papers dealing with subjects related to crime in- | vestigations, such as the testing of drugs, blood and hair. And, oddly { enough, a gangland massacte spurred the development in Chicago. It was the so-called St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. This slaughter occurred on February 14, 1929. Members of the Al Capone gang, disguised as police, cornered seven persons, one of whom was believed to be “Bugs” Moran, in a garage. They stood their victims against a wall and mowed them down with machine-gun fire. pDuring the coroner’s jury investigation, some of the jurors asked what {purpose was served in keeping the bullets found at the garage. H j Chicago police explained that ballistics experts could determine whether | the bullets had been fired from certain guns—but that the Chicago ¢ Police Department had no laboratory in which to do such work. Frcerpt from page 145 of "The FBI Story, A Report to the Peanle" Au Bon he ee ve #hitehead rf 7 # f } : ”, apron cbr § Ee aia ee Oo pee “4