The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-22
RECORD
 TRACED IN PLOT
 TO GET PROBERS
Duckstein Reveals Re newed Shadowing Of The
 Daugherty Committee
STONE PROMISES
 SUITABLE" ACTION
Attorney General To Ask Quick Disposal Of
 Whole Case
tBy Leased Wire to The Herald

(By Leased Wire to The Age -Herald)
 WASHINGTON, May 21.-The department of justice will take .ap- +propriate steps regarding Howard Mannington and others mentioned in connection with liquor deals and alleged law violations in the Senate Daugherty investigation.
 This was decided at conference between Attorney General Stone and members of the Brookhart in- vestigating committee late Wednes- day.
 Stone also indicated he would ask for an early trial of the charges against Senator Wheeler in Mon tanas
 Women Spies Used
 A weird story of spy work by agents of the department of justice supposedly assigned to ''get something" on members of the committee. and hamper that in- quiry was told Wednesday by W. O. Duckstein, private secretary to E. B. Mclean, publisher of the Washington Post. Shadowing cf senators and con gressmen, and spying on their secre- taries by women detectives was de- scribed.
 Duckstein testified that diaries and papers reported to have been stolen from Gaston B. Means last march were seen in the hands of two men alleged to have been employed by Hiram Todd, special assistant attorney general. baccalaurate address.
 "P. J. O'Brien and Walter Petit came to my house. on the night of March S1," Duckstein said. eThey said they had some papers of Mir. Means and wanted Mrs. Duekstein to identify them.'
 Mrs. DnGkstein formerly was de. parknenk ok justice agent.
 The Dacksteins entered an aut0mo- bile and were driven to a lonely spot in Rock Greek park. There, under the dim rays of pocket faehlight, the two alleged agents of Todd opened two black satchels and Mrs. Duckstein examined the papers and Identified them as Means documents and diaries. This happened. on the night of March 31, the day Means alleged that two men, posing as employees of Senator Brook hart, came to his house and presented letter from Brookhart asking for the papers. BrOokhart later said the letter was a forgery and Means announced he had been victimized.
 Win Subpoena Todd . Chairman BroOkhart announced he would issue subpoena for Todd and the diaries. These documents are said to contain aday-by-day record of Means investigations and the names of many high officials figure in the records, the investigator told the committee when he testified recently.
 Mrs. Duckstein described Jess Smiths activities around the department of jus tice and said he arranged for whisky nent- persons shadowed.
 Whom did Means investigate for Smith?" Senator Wheeler asked.
 General Sawyer, the White House !" she answered. ''The way the report read, think they went to President Harding"
 .'Who else did Means investigate for Smithg"
 Senator Caraway, Representative Woodruff, Michigan, at the time of the Keller, Minnesota, and Representative agitation about impeachi1g the Attorney General.
 Means also investigated q mysterious Mrs. Cross' for Smith, she added. He also obtained an order from Harding directing a special prohibition invssti- gation, and an inquiry regarding book about the late President.
 When Duckstein was on the stand, Wheeler asked:
 You once told me that I was goins' to be framed, long before was in. 
 ''Yes, it was fully month before Duckstein said.