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Missing Persons at that time, which was a polite name for a sort of super-detective service in the Police Department of New York City. There was a service called the detective service. They had titles and ranks in the detective service. But this Bureau of Missing persons was sort of a special research bureau. They would look up peculiar cases, keep track of all kinds of bad behavior that isn't actually a detective's work as yet. They could call on the detectives to do jobs for them, but they kept the cards up close. Often these were cases where no action could be taken. They were just trying to find out things. Until they found out a lot there would be no police action possible. It was called the Bureau of Missing Persons when so many people disappeared mysteriously. There was a time in New York life when a good many people disappeared leaving no trace. It had been established at that time, but gradually became a super- detective service. They knew a lot about things in which they were not making arrests at the moment, and perhaps couldn't.

I had known him while I was Commissioner of Labor in a number of different contacts. We had some very strange people who came through the Department of Labor on workmen's compensation, or other cases. Some of them were quite mad. Others were extremely perverse. Others were just plain crooks