Evening star., 1923-03-16
j. s. AGENT JAILED
WITH COMMUNISTS
Sheriff Tells How Spy Got
Evidence Following Raid
on Convention.
SAW FOSTER AT Meeting
Federal Investigator Declares Al
legged Red Leader Was
on Scene.
SAW FOSTER AT Meeting
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. JOSEPH. Mich. March 10
Sheriff George Bridgeman, who led
the raid last August on the COM
munist party convention in the Mich
igan sand dunes, was questioned to-
day concerning the activities Of
Francis Morrow. at the trial of Will
liam q. Foster. charged with violation
Of the state anti-syndicalist laws.
Morrow. a Department of Justice
agent who was also known as Ash
worth. was present at the convention
as a delegate and was arrested"
when the meeting was raided
The sheriff admitted that when Nor
row was taken into another room, ap-
parently for questioning, he screamed
and cried, apparently in great pain,
and when returned to cell told his
fellow prisoners he had been beaten
by the federal agents and deputies.
Confined to JniI.
Morrow remained in Jail two days
to mingle with the genuine COM
munists.
Mr.. Walsh brought out that Allen
o. Myers. general manager of the w.
J. Burns International Detective
Agency. came to St. Joseph immedi-
ately after the raid.
The defense tried to bring out that
Myers and other government agents
had been given access to the piles Of
evidence, and that Myers had sent
some of the papers to New York or
Washington.
Sheriff Bridgeman admitted the fed
eral agents had gone through the
been removed with his knowledge.
Mr.. Walsh also tried to bring out
that when Morrow was released he
drew up a statement releasing the
Department of Justice agents from
all claims of damages for the beating
lie pretended to have received at
their hands.
The sheriff admitted such a paper
was prepared. but denied knowledge
denied knowledge whether Myers sent
any of the seized papers to p. NJ
Whitney of Washington, who wrote
a series of articles containing alleged
copies of some of the evidence which
were printed in the Boston Tran
script.
Saw Foster on Scene.
Jacob Spolansky, a Department of
Justice agent from Chicago. testified
he had watched the communist con-
vention at Bridgeman for several days
before 1t was raided. and that on Sun
day. August 90, two days before the
raid, he saw Foster on the scene
Foster was not present when the
raid was made, and when arrested in
Chicago later denied having attended
the convention.
Thirty-two OF the seventy-six alleged
delegates to the convention have been
arrested, or have surrendered, sixteen
being caught at the time of the raid
Foster was arrested in Chicago and ex-
tradited.
Evidence Was Buried.
Chief interest in today's session CEN
tered in the probable introduction by
the state of the regulations of ground
committee" found among the evidence
dug up at the convention scene from
two buried barrels. The regulations,
referred to yesterday by Assistant At
torney General o. L. Smith in his OPEN
ing statement, show, the state main
tains, the delegates themselves recog-
nized the illegal status of their ac-
tivities and took elaborate precautions
against discovery.
Delegates to the convention apparently
enjoyed little freedom. They could not
leave the grounds without a pass, were
compelled to rise at 6 am. and retire
at 10 pm. could not talk to strangers,
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