The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-25
WATCHED BY SPIES
Every Act and Word of Sulzer Re-
ported to Enemies

| New York, Oct 22.-That William
| detectives in the executive mansion
| in the executive chamber and where
| ever he went from the time of his
nomination as governor to the day of
his dismissal; that dictagraphs in
| stalled in the Peoples House" told
his enemies everything he said; that
| his telephone was tapped, his guests
| bribed, his servants paid by agents
| of his foes, this was the declaration
yesterday of Colonel William N. Am
DRY, widely known for his exposure
| of New York traction corruption.
Colonel Amory, after returning
from Albany, where he had been
with the governor in the last days of
the impeachment struggle, received
a letter from Chester c. Plat, secre-
tary TO Sulzer, confirming the discov
cry OF dictagraphs.
You are right" writes Plat.
They were installed not only in the
executive mansion. but in the
executive offices in the capital as
well. Besides, the telephone wires
were tapped and every telegraph mes
sage sent out copied"
A dictagraph expert from New
York unearthed the subtle little reg
listers in the Peoples House. One,
it is said, was inserted in the back
Of the governors desk and even
caught everything he said over the
telephone.
The surprised attitude of certain
witnesses at the impeachment trial,
particularly OF Allan Ryan and Hen
r. Morgenthau, when examining
counsel showed full knowledge of
neir telephone conversations with
Sulzer, gave circumstantial verify 10
Amory's statements.
you have taken me by surprise"
was one of the statements of Mr..
Morgenthau on the stand when his
conversation with Sulzer, the cover.
nor's request to "be easy with me"
was being brought out.
Colonel Amory, long a friend of
Sulzer, tells an amazing story of the
subtle machinery put into operation
to gain evidence against Sulzer.
"On August II last" he said last
night. "the governor sent for me.
became suspicious on my first visit
to the executive mansion. The sery-
ants fingered too long in the room
where guests were received | visit
ed the governor eight times within
the next few weeks and each time
my suspicious increased.
Il spoke to Mr. Sulzer about it;
showed that one of my kilograms to
him had been opened, and finally the
major domo was dismissed. At an
other time we saw through a glass
door panel the profile of a maid list
ening. Next day had that maid fol-
lowed, and she met detective.
Undoubtedly. 60 or more private
detectives were employed tracking
the governor by the mighty political
powers that were afraid of him from
the first.
Meanwhile the governor, a pecu.
liarly trustful man, listened only de-
precatingly 10 my assertions that
spies surrounded him. Why, one of
his Oldest friends, who lived for
months in the mansion is a man |
suspect of taking a leading part in
wiring the House with dictagraphs
and tapping telephone wires.
ITO tap the wires the agents of
Sulzer foes must have obtained
charts of the telephone system lead
ing to the mansion. The distagraphs
may have been installed even before
Sulzer took. possession of the house.
I'm other words, while the powers
that nominated and supported him
were hailing him governor OF the En-
pire state, they were literally laying
the wires to remove him should he
become dangerous TO their interests
| have good reason to believe that de
tectives were after him as soon as
he was nominated.
Not only the governor himself.
but everyone who visited him was
shadowed 1t was probably the most
complete and astute system of sur
VIGILANCE to which a representative
of the people in high office was ever
subjected"