interference). He consulted on criminal investigations. A man sent a bomb to Huey Long, the Louisiana politician, along with a note full of hieroglyphic markings. William solved it. The warden of an Ohio penitentiary sent him a cryptogram smuggled into prison by the mother of a bank robber. William sent back the plaintext, which revealed a plot to help the inmate escape by placing bombs along a prison wall and exploding them on a Sunday during
