The Washington times., 1919-12-22
TRAIL L|SWARM
|NLEAK PROBE.
Cleanup Of Men Implicated in
Supreme Court Tips Due
Within Few Days. :
.SPECULAT0RS IN PANIC
Wall Street Trading on Ad-
vance information Admit.
ted by Some.
sPEcULAToRs IN PANIC

The gang Of Washington and New
York Spectators involved In the al
legged "'esk" in the Supreme Court
decision case today are in a state
Of panic while Secret Service agents
are putting the finishing touches on
the chain of evidence connecting
them with the affair.
Confronted by witnesses. who
came to Washington from New York,
some Of those implicated have made
q clean breast Of their share In trad
ing in Wall Street on information
which the principal in the case
claimed he had: from a minor at
tache of the Supreme Court
Clean.Up Dle Soon.
Other Developments are now pend
ing, and cleanup Of the whole mat
ter is merely a question OF days. per.
hAps evsn OF heusA z.s
The Departme4t'e 'ef Justsc~ aatufal-
lysresusss.-sS mAlre public the details
ex 3he probe, which is still under way.
bnt It Is known that officials working
o. the case see the bsginning of the
end.
At iSast one more personality Is
underseOod to have been involved in
the Alleged leak" through the admis-
sions Of Others. and, IN addition to
the Washington lawyer. the Depart
ment of Justice lawyer and the minor
attAche Of the Supreme Court already
- hap vtDN -
by the Federsl authorities, still others
may be called on to explain their ac-
tion.
Psses A Rich Gambler.
Some Of the details Of the case
would furnish reading As thrilling a.
the best "thrillers" Of the day.
One man. to obtain information a.
to the Wall Street operations Of the
gang, posed ~ . gambler with .
million dollars credit This credit
was actually arranged" for the pur-
pose OF the Investigation. and the
Washington lawyer who was to use
this credit to trade in stocks affected
by Supreme Court decisions took the
pains to verify this "credit" by a call
on the New York broker In person
To pin the sharpers down, this same
man found II necessary to get them
into a room. They talked freely out
side, when certain no one was listen
ing, but shied when they found four
walls about them So the supposed
gambler, while living at the New
willard Hotel here. pretended to be
i'll. A doctor was sent for. The
physician prescribed, put the suppos-
edly sick man on strictest diet, and
called in O trained nurse to see that
his orders were carried out-sail this
without being "let in" on the scheme.
So, propped up In bed, with hot
water bags about him and all the
other signs of the sick-room plainly
apparent, the spectators came in.
What they did not see, however, was
the dictagraph under the bed.
.staIIs- fer Week.
Later. when the expected wet
and dry" decision was not handed
down as anticipated on December ),
II became necessary to ''stalr' for .
whole week, as the speculators in
sisted on going to New York to play
the market on the mere strength OF
the expected decision. This was not
what was wanted by those investi-
eating the case, and some way had
to be found to stave on the trip. The
fictitious gambler, therefore, pre-
tended he was drunk Though he
had not touched whiskey in ten years
ne poured the stuff over his clothes,
his hair and the room, threw cigar
and cigarette ends all about the
floor and gave the room generally
untidy. foul-smelling effect. The
speculators were furious, but con-
WINGED.
During the several weeks the in
vestigation has been under way the
speculators have furnished this man
a number of forecasts of decisions
which the Supreme Court was to
hand down, and most Of them proved
absolutely correct