Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-13
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had read in the newspapers that Pin
chot was in town. and he sought him
out because, as he expressed it, he
knew the governor was ON the level"
1t was on the basis of McNGullin's
reports that government counsel fl
Enally went before Justice Siddons to
! present the reports of the activities
Of the Burns men and to suggest a
mistrial, in which defense counsel
joined. This was on October 81.
Still the Burns people were in
Ignorance as to how the government
got it's information. McMullin never
came under suspicion and two days
after the mistrial. was ordered he was
asked to make an affidavit based
upon the false reports he said he had
! signed concerning the activities of
Lamb, "the government agent" to
whom Burns referred in making his
charge of jury tampering by the
! government.
| McNIullin was kept around the
court house from the beginning of the
! grand jury investigation. And in
order to camouflage the real purpose
for which he was wanted, District
| Attorney Gordon summoned all of the
/ private operatives to Washington.
On the day that Burns was an
nouncing the filing of the affidavits
directed against Lamb. McMullin was
! in the office of Neil RurkinShaw, as
sistant district attorney in charge of
the investigation, preparing an affi-
davit of six or seven pages, enbody-
! ing the knowledge he had gained
from his contact with the operatives.
] Gordon and Burkinshaw took elab-
crate precautions, to deceive Burns
and his own men as to what was
t going on behind the scenes scarcely
4 a dozen feet away. The Burns men
we're hustled in and out of; the grand
! jury room while .NcNullin was die
tating to a stenographer
/ When the dictation was over a no
tary was sent for and taken quietly
| into another room. McMQllin was
escorted to- the grand jury room,
sworn under the name of ong, and;
as Burkinshaw himself put it, was
asked a number of meaningless ques-
! tionS by the young assistant prose-
cutor. When word went in that
the transcribing of the affidavit had
been completed, Long was hustled into
l-Still another room, where he read,
sWore to and signed the affidavit
while there again was a procession
of Burns men passing in review before
the grand jury.
Burkinshaw explained that he de-
cided to work right under the eyes
of Burns and his men because if he
of 1oo 1JYstl
house their suspicious would have
been aroused.
McMullin finally told his whole
story to the grand jury today for the
first time after Pincfot had testified.
Monday, the Burns, father and two
sons, w. Sherman and Raymond, and /
their operatives will be recalled and
given an opportunity to ,amplify their
previous testimony. Most of them |
have been before the jury at least !
twice
From the time of the miStrial the |
Burns men know, as they put it, that |
they had been "sold OUT" but they
professed complete ignorance as to the |
identity of the person from whom the |
government got it's information. They |
even questioned newspaper men on /
that point.
And during the 12 days they were
in doubt, NcNIullin mingled with I
them freely, attending what Gordon
described as their "pep" meetings, at I
which the grand jury investigation t
was discussed seriously and facetious1y
and promptly reporting to District
Attorney Gordon or to BurkinshaW
by telephone Sometimes his reports
went in while the meetings we're in
progress, and Gordon said he had
difficulty in understanding because
of the Ehilarity' of the other oper
ativeS in nearby room. }a
Far from suspecting NcMullin, Will
liam j. Burns, according to the oper-
ative, frequently praised him and
patted him on the back when he re-
ported he had told the grand jury
nothing, and even called upon him to
drive him around Washington in his
car which he brought from Philadel-
phia at Burns request.
Besides the report as to Lamb Nc
Mullin told the prosecutors that he
had been required to make number
of other false reports, including one
that he had been in nearby Maryland
He said he never had been out of the
city of Washington while on the
operation except to go back to Phila-
delphia occasionally and that the re-
port that he shadowed Juror Norman
j. Glascock to Potomac flying field
near here was sheer fabrication"
This was known to the Burns men,
he asserted, adding that after he had
sworn to the affidavit that he had
seen Lamb and Glascock at the field