The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-05-08
DETECTIVE BURNS
GRILLED BY DORSEY
Continued from page 14l.


@. Mr.. Burns, what did you say to
Allen? Didn't you curse and abuse
him? A. did not.
Left Money on Table.
Q. Mr.. Burns, tell us about the
stack of money left on the table in
your main office while Allen was
there and while the rest of you with
drew from the room? A. No such
thing happened.
Q. Did you pay Allen anything?
A. No.
@. Didn't you authorize O'Neal to
go to Indianapolis and tell Allen that
you wanted him to do some work for
you in an effort to catch negro?
A. No.,
@. What authority did you have
for taking Allen to Chicago and de-
tanning him there? A. 1 never took
him to Chicago, and I never detained
him there.
Paid Isom Nothing.
.. Dou you deny that 1som was paid
500 for his trip to Chicago?' A. 1
never paid him anything.
Q. Have you man in your employ
named Charlton c. Tedder? A. l
have not employed such man.
Q. He is working for some of your
agents, isn't he? A. I think he has
been employed by Mr.. Lehon.
Q. You have conferred with Tedder,
haven't you? A. Yes.
@. What sort of work did you have
him doing? A. Working on the Con-
ley case? A. Yes.
@. Didn't you just say you were
employed to work on the Frank case?
If so, why did you have Tedder work.
ing on the Conley case? A. l was
enjoyed to work on both cases.
Q. Why did you put Tedder on the
Conley case? "A. never employed
Tedder. 1 don't know just what ar
rangements Lehon had with him.
Q. Isn't Lehon one of your lieu
tenants, and doesn't he make his re-
ports to you? A. Lehon doesn't al
ways report to me.
Q. Lehon is in charge of your in
vestigations, isn't he, while YOU are
travelling about the country investi-
eating other tangles, isn't he? A.
Yes.
Don't Get All Reports.
Q. Doesn't he make written reports
to you? A. Not always.
Q. Then her peorts verbally to
you? A. Sometimes.
Q. Eventually and ultimately, do
you get all the reports from your
men in every case? A. No.
Q. Who does get these reports?
A. Mr.. Sears, the local manager, has
charge of that; and our man Hause
gets some of the reports.
Q. Tell the court here why it is YOU
have been making special trips, trav-
cling all over the country to Chicago.
Kansas City, and other places, inves-
tigating various angles of the case.
though you were specially employed
to direct the investigation here, and
still you don't get all reports, either
verbally or in writing?. A. do not
get them.
Q. Are matters reported to Franks
counsel before they are reported to
you? A. No.
Q. Don't you report everything to
Franks counsel? A. No.
Q. Who does? A. Lehon and 9TH
@. Why do you report to these
men? A. So they will know what is
going on in the case
q. When you conferred with AT
torney Smith, Conley's lawyer, you
knew Tedder was reporting to Smith,
didn't you? A. Yes.
Inquired About Tedder.
@. At that time didn't you ask
Smith if Tedder could be trusted i'm
plicitly? A. Yes.
@. Why did you ask that question?
A. l wished to know if (Tedder was
trustworthy.
Q. Did you direct your activities
toward the conviction of Conley and
the demonstration of Frank as an in
nocent man? A. No, not if Conley
was innocent.
Q. When did you first know of the
first spoke to me about it.
Q. What did he say? A. He said
there was a preacher who claimed to
have been in an alley-and stopped
him right there. l didn't want to
hear any more alley propositions.
=. Then you had been surfeited
with that? A. I had
Y. Who was the man in Chicago
who claimed to have picked up a
pocketbook and pencil in the alley?
A. forgot the mans name.
q. Didn't you take an affidavit
from him? A. No.
Q. Who did? A. Mr.. Haas, I think.
Q. Is that affidavit in the city? A.
/ think it is.
@. How many of these alley prop
ositions did you hear of? A. Three or
four hundred, think.
Did Not Find Man.
q. Did you find in Chicago a man
who claimed to have been in the alley
and who claimed to have picked up a
purse and a pencil and -memoran-
dunn? A. didn't find him.
q. Who are some of the three or
four hundred people who claimed to
have been in the alley? A. The op-
eratives kept tell me of them.
Q. Why, for instance? A. Mr.. Le-
hon and were continually joking