The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-12


ting the department of justice,
when the head of the detective
bureau of that department was
recalled to the stand on May 2.
Burns was in one of his worst-hu-
mored moods when Wheeler drew this
admission from him. His attempts
to browbeat the Montanian failed,
however, to break down the smiling
persistence with which Wheeler I'M
covered the conspiracy against him
self that led up to his indictment by
one Of Daugherty's federal grand
iuries.
Burns Lies Again.
Ralph Hately, who died at about the
time of the indictment, was the Burns
man who was sent out to "get" Wheel
er. Burns said Hately was ordered
to go first to Washington Court House,
Ohio, Daugherty's home town, to see
man who was supposed to know
something Of Wheeler's past. Arriv-
ing there, he reported that the man
had gone to Nashville, and he was
ordered to Nashville Burns indig-
nantly denied that his own private
detective agency had been involved in
the matter, or in the combing of Mon
tana for bits Of evidence that Wheel
er had ever broken any law. He in
sisted that Hately was a purely gov
eminent detective, travelling on gov
eminent mileage and with govern
ment expense account.
Hately failed to get anything ION"
Sen. Wheeler from the Nashville trip.
The man he met was an old friend Of
| the senator, as Wheeler has testified,
and he reported to Wheeler that Hate
ly had asked him whether there were
not something somewhere in Wheel
er's career that he would not like to
have known" He was answered in
the negative.
Fink Trails Fink.
Burns added to the evidence of
cynical intrigue in the department by
saying that a detective has been sha-
downing CASTOR v. Means, one of
Burns former pals who now is aiding
the Senate committee. He denied that
this man stole the records which
Means has lost. Howard Warrington,
who lived in the Little Green House
on K. Street, and who denies that he
received money for his pull with
Daugherty in the matter or whisky re-
moval permits and other evasions Of
law, is another of Burns confessed
"old friends from Columbus" Burns
knew Of his close association with
Daugherty. He knew, also, that Jess
Smith was an intimate associate of
Daugherty. Burns has talked with
Lockwood of the republican national
committee, too, during the period Of
Lockwoods most violent attacks on
Wheeler and the other progressives
who have probed the corruption Of the
Coolidge administration. And Burns
confidential secretary, afterward a
special agent, was the wife of the pri-
waite secretary to Ned Mclean of the
Washington Post and Cincinnati En-
auirer-the Mclean who falsely de-
Iclared that he lent the 100000 to Fall.
Burns on Vermin.
Attorney General Stone has made
no move, so far as is known, to rid
the department of Burns. He has, ac-
cording to Burns, ordered that the
list of dollar-a-year special agents,
which included Mclean, Fred Upham
and other big politicians in the Daugh-
erty gang, be cancelled. Yet Burns
seems extremely anxious that his pri-
vate detective business shall not get
involved in the scandal which he as
public official, has waded in. He
denied, over and over, in loud voice,
any connection between the Burns
agency and the attacks on senators
or the defense of the administration.
"a lot of these lice around here
have been trying to make you believe
those things, but they are raise he