The Washington herald., 1912-02-01


resort 10 the use of their fists. Both
were rebuked by the committee. AS the
result of the repeated verbal encounters
between the detective and Iorimer .
lawyer considerable feeling was devel-
oped between members of the commit
tee. On one occasion Burns warned tne
committee that he would no longer suD-
nit to Hanecy's offensive questions.
IF you don't stop this line Of ques-
tioning / WILL" said Burns to Chairman
Dillingham;, at the same time glaring az
Lorimer's lawyer Senator Luke Lea, OF
Tennessee, accused Judge Hanecy or
being unfair, and Hanecy resented. IL
Senator Fletcher hotly sided with the
LorImer attorney, and then Fletcher ana
Lea had sharp controversy. Alto
gether IL was the liveliest session ever
held by the Lorimer committee. The
committee room was crowded throughout
the day.
McGowan got into the Lorimer case IN
a remarkable way. One Burgess, the
witness introduced by counsel for the
L,orimer committee. testified that while
travelling on the ''Winnepeg Filler from
Duluth to Virginia City, in Minnesota
he heard wiehe, a brother-in-law OF Ed
ward Hines, the lumber merchant, who
has figured in the case as the man who
is alleged to have raised 10000 to put
L,orimer across, boast that he had con-
tributed $1,000 to this fund. Burgess
testified that among the other passen-
gers on the train who heard the CONVEX
sation was a young Canadian, name un-
known, who was journeying to Canada.
Existence of Hines Fund.
Later. the Lorimer people, realizing
that this testimony was, perhaps, vital
as tending to corroborate other statements
that the Hines fund Of $4,000 really had
existed. sought out and produced this
unidentified Canadian in the person Of
Young MCGOWAN. The Lorimer people
procured the name of MCGOWAN from the
Canadian officers of Winnipeg, where he
made his declaration required by law, on
entering Canada from the United States.
MCGOWAN denied that the conversation
in the smoking compartment of the Win
nipeg flier, to which Burgess had testi-
fed had occurred. Then the anti-Lori-
mer people started after MCGOWAN. First,
the counsel for the committee hired
Burns agency. but results proving un-
satisfactory. the committee dropped the
detectives, whereupOn the Chicago Trib-
une hired Burns and his sleuths to go
TO Canada, which they did. and now
claim to have secured admissions from
MCGOWAN thoroughly discrediting his
testimony. The Burns men profess to
have made young McGowan's acquaint-
ance and wormed into his confidence.
Burns was an object of attack for
Lorimer's counsel almost from the mo-
ment of his appearance on the stand.
The detective was a nervous. over
wrought witness. and talked like a gat-
ling gum Burns was hardly seated in
the witness chair when W. J. Hynes,
counsel for Edward Hines. the Chicago
lumber merchant, asked the committee
that young MCGOWAN be brought in to
confront the detective.
McGOwan ConfrOnts Burns.
THAT is a reasonable request" OBJ
served Chairman Dillingham;.
This was only one of the spectacular
features of the days hearing. AS a mat
ter Of fact, there was no reason apDar-
emily. FOR the request. The elder Nc
Go8an was already in the room. When
the son was ushered in by Senator Lori
mer,s- secretary he took q seat beside
his dignified parent. and both men
scrutinized Burns closely. The detective
returned their contemptuous look with
interest.
From the beginning Burns was short
and snappy in his answers, almost de-
fiant. His manner did not please the
committee and provoked a constant
WTanEling.
Planned Use of DicIOEraph.
Burns told Of having two additional
detectives with him in Toronto and a
stenographer to use with the dictograph.
Bailey. one Of his operatives, took a
business man named Kerr from Detroit
10 Toronto with him.
Judge Hanecy-What was Kerr doing
there?
Burus-Nothing.
Hanecy-He was not dead7
Burns-You will not think so when he
gets on the stand.
afA h,5
along TO ovcrhear anything that Nc
GOwan said. Asked as TO how he regis
tered in Toronto, Burns said he thought
he used the name b. J. Williams. %
That was his own name backward. He
said he frequently used that name be-
cause there were so many people shad-
owing him TO inquire about matters on
which he had been working that he found
il advisable to use the name.
We are being shadowed by SO many OF
those half-baked detectives that we md
it advisable 20 use assumed names at
times said Burns.
Judge Hanecy read from a speech which
Burns made last night at the National
Press Club expressing his opinion OF
private detectives as u class, and saying
that they were usually the worst ras-
Gals that ever went unwhipped OF JUS
tice.''
This aroused the witness and brought
forth tattoo from Senator DiIlingham's
savel
sought "OnIy the TRUTH
In answer to question, Burns told how
he had been engaged by Editor Eeely, of
the Chicago Tribune, 10 continue his in
vestigation into the MCGOWAN matter
and that Keely, who seemed to know
all that had been done before, had told
lin that he would see. that Burns would
get paid for it
Burns said he understood from his op-
erative, Bailey, that MCGOWAN had
made q statement in the presence Of
Kerr and Jimmy Sheridan that what Nc
Gowan had told the committee was not
Tue; that he had actually heard Wiehe
make the statement which Burgess had
said he made.
1t was his understanding that Nc
Gowan had written a letter to Bailey
and acknowledged that he had shaken
down the Hines crowd and made them
come through. Also that they had used
The dictograph on him.
''If you understood that why did you
go up there?'' asked Judge Hanecy-
Il went up there to get the young man
and his father TO come down here and
ten the TRUTH
You had no authority from this COM
mittee to grant him immunity, did your
Il had no such authority and 1 would
not have used it il l had. but I felt
that the committee would take into con-
sideration the fact that this young man