The main character is Alan Saunders, but the newsboy yells out "Joe Saunders still at large!" And this is over a shot of the newspaper headline which reads "Al Saunders".
When the captain asks the sergeant, who's trying to get the numbers of the battery from the burned car, if he thinks it will work, the optimistic lab tech says, "I believe so. You see, I figure that the heavy stamping machine, that puts on these numbers at the factory, hits with such force, that it changes the molecular structure of the whole metal. If that's true, we'll be able to re-raise the numbers." This is basic mumbo jumbo. Common car batteries are make of lead alloys, which are relatively soft. The stamping machine would not strike with much force, and even if it did, the molecular structure wouldn't be changed because an alloy is a mixture, not a compound.
The story below the newspaper headline 'Police Baffled by "Clueless Crime," Burglars Crack Safe; Take Payroll' is a completely different story. It's about the (attempted) lynching of Joseph Wilson "by a blood-mad mob", where Sheriff Tad Hummel and "several of his deputies were injured in a desperate battle to stave off the howling, screaming mass of humanity, which fought with stones and clubs." This story is straight out of Fury (1936), starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney.
On the second Bureau of Investigation - Homicide Detail form shown, under the Health section of Personal Habits, there are several conditions listed with question marks. The last one is "Suicides?", as if a person can have more than one.
On the third Bureau of Investigation - Homicide Detail form shown, under Employment Record, the investigator wrote that Alan's first position was "Councillor" for the Big Trees Camp for Boys, misspelling Counselor.