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How TV caught; Albertus Bollacker: parole breaker. Richard C. Roby: under an alias. The “WANTED” poster has moved to television. This placard, with its rogues’ gal¬ lery pictures, its fingerprints and full description of criminals, still hangs on the post office wall. But for every¬ one who sees the posters in post of¬ fices, hundreds watch them on TV. The medium has taken its place as an important law enforcement aid. No one knows just how many sta¬ tions carry programs to assist local and state police in finding fugitives, nor how many criminals such pro¬ grams have helped capture. But the F.B.I. bears witness that the television audience does help. More than 40 stations schedule regular weekly programs, with pictures and descriptive data of desperadoes wanted by the Federal Government. Many thousands who watch these shows have trained themselves to be on the lookout for the “Wanted” men and women. So far, four men have been arrested as a direct result of having their pic¬ tures flashed on television screens, in¬ cluding the one who was on the Bu¬ reau’s list of “Ten Most Wanted.” Oddly enough, two of the four ar¬ rests came from programs on a single station—WGAL-TV, in Lancaster, Pa., which has carried the weekly F.B.I. show since Sept., 1950. But it was two years before the show paid off. A man idly watching the set in his living room suddenly sat bolt up¬ right. The picture of Albertus Reed Bollacker, parole violater, had been flashed on the screen. The televiewer had seen this man and knew where he could be found. He put in a call to the nearest F.B.I. branch office. Bollacker was nabbed and put behind bars for three years. Two years later, the same station Alex Whitmore: unlawful flight.