"Badly Wanted'

Black was the Chicago reputation of Willie Doody. Police, searching for him for six months, called him a "two-gun terror," the "babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn.

Last week a score of sharpshooting police officers, armed with shotguns and revolvers surrounded an apartment building on Chicago's West Side. Some went on the roof while others climbed three flights of rickety stairs to a rear apartment. There they cut the wire out of a screen door, stepped into a room, found a sheepish little fellow of 25 with round pink cheeks, black hair, innocent hazel eyes. He was pulling on a pair of socks. It was Willie Doody. Tamely he surrendered, said he was "relieved" the chase was over, blamed "bad company" for his troubles.

Police departments in different cities exchange notes on criminals whom they want badly. If police chiefs in leading cities could, by wishing, lay hold of the men they want most badly, they would wish for the following:

Los Angeles. Edward F. Sands, 34, 5 ft 5 in., for the murder of William Desmond Taylor, cinema director, whose butler he was. Questioned in this case were Cinemactresses Mabel Normand, last to see Taylor alive, and Mary Miles Minter whose lingerie and love letters were found in the Taylor apartment.

William Loren Tallman, 23, 6 ft., black hair, blue eyes, for the murder last June of Mrs. Virginia Patty, broker's wife, found beaten to death with a brick in Tallman's apartment. Reward: $2,000.

San Francisco. William or Jake Fleagle (alias Holden), 35, 5 ft. 11 in., well-dressed professional gambler, for a train robbery at Martinez and a bank robbery at Lamar, Col., in which four men were killed. Reward: $17,000. Warning: "Desperate!"

William Loren Tallman (see Los Angeles).

Seattle. "John Doe," 27, 5 ft. 7 in., dark for the murder of a policeman.

"John Doe," 24, 5 ft. 8 in., light complexion, posing as a college student, for the murder of a gas station attendant.

Denver. Ray Stevenson, 36, 6 ft., 165 lb., thin brown hair, two bullet scars on right shoulder, wanted for bank robberies at Denver and at Englewood. Reward: $1,500. Warning: "Desperate bank robber."

Walther Gruhl, 32, 5 ft. 8 in., 150 lb., brown hair, blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, wanted for the same robberies as Stevenson.

Kansas City. Sam Stine, 24, 5 ft. 7 in., chestnut hair, blue eyes, wanted for the robbery of Home Trust Co. and the murder of Policeman James Smith during the Republican National Convention last year.

Clyde Reed (alias Arthur L. Barrett), 30, 6 ft., slender, brown eyes and hair, wanted for highway robbery. He escaped from officers at Kansas City, from a Knoxville, Tenn., jail and from the Tennessee penitentiary. Warning: "Desperate criminal."

Dallas. Robert Lynch, Negro, wanted for the murder of an expressman whose body he cut up with a pocket knife, whose truck he stole.

Pete Jones, Negro, for the murder of Lyle Harris, employe of Consolidated Film & Supply Co.

Atlanta. The unknown murderers of Robert Brandon, mortician, and Prof. Alexander Hamilton Johnson of Hartwell, slain during the convention of the National Education Association in June.

Jacksonville. Frank Owen, Negro, 28, 5 ft. 8 in., for robbery and rape of a white woman.

Tom Stephens, Negro, 21, 5 ft. 7 in., for breaking jail, for attacking park couples. Warning: "Vicious."

New York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year.

Hyman Biller (alias Gill Biller), 42, 5 ft. 4 in., 140 lb., brown eyes, scar on left forehead, wanted for the murder of Arnold Rothstein last year (TIME, Dec. 24). A gambler and bookmakers' cashier, Biller frequents race tracks.

Chicago. Bernard Roa, Mexican, 16 bullet scars on back, wanted for murder. Roa broke out of Joliet prison, killed a deputy warden. Warning: "Dangerous."

Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot.

St. Paul and Boston. Police officers do not believe the broadcasting of information about criminals helps to catch the men sought.

Federal. Two men most wanted by the U. S. Post Office Department:

Walter Ringer (alias Charley Ringer, Franz Rudis, Max Walter Ketter, Charles Long), 39, 5 ft. 6 in., heavy set, broad shouldered, for stealing U. S. mail upon the high seas aboard the S. S. Leviathan last year. A linguist, he conducts novelty shops, cafes, works as a seaman or carpenter. Reward: $2,700.

Edward J. Pinc (alias Edward Bodery), 32, 6 ft. 2 in., 325 lb., brown hair, with two hands clasped over a heart tattooed on his left forearm, for the theft of U. S. mail pouch containing $16,500 in currency last March at Melrose Park, Ill. He wears a no. 12 shoe, smokes cigars continuously.