The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
Detective Chief to Go Be-
fore Grand Jury Again
to Make Denial.
WORKED AS JURY SPY
SIeuth Who Aided U. S.
Says False Fixing Aft
! davit Is Signed.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
limited Press stan CorrespOndent

WASHINGTON, NOV. lf'-WH-
liam j. Burns, international detec-
tive, will be allowed to reply before
the grand jury probably tomorrow
to the Governments charges that he
obtained and used fake affidavits in
the course Of the Fall-Sinclair oil
trial jury espionage.
U. s. Attorney Peyton Gordon.
after an hours conference with the
detective and his son, w. Sherman
Burns, granted Burns request to
place his denial into the record.
Flat denial Of the Governments
charge that Burns operatives sha-
downing the Fall-Sinclair jury falsi-
fed affldavits, apparently designed
to force a mistrial Of the case was
made today by w. Sherman Burns,
directing head Of the international
detective agency, and one Of Will
liap j. Burns;
w. Sherman Burns, as spokesman
for his father, said the entire story
of William j. McCullin, who worked
as civilian ". Long," Burns oper-
alive "L-36," while he was a spy Cor
the Government, was false.
McMullin's story was that. at the
request of Burns agents, he made a
false affidavit on which w. j. Burns
based charges Of Government Jury
tampering by Justice Department
official.
Hotel records showing that Sin
clair's bill at the hotel Mayflower
for the two and fraction weeks OF
the trial amounted TO $4,000 were OBJ
tanned by the Government today.
The hotel bill disclosed that a tele-
phone call was completed from Sin
clair's apartment to Harry Jeffreys,
the oil mans confidential clerk in
New York, on oct. 18-the day after
the trial started.
Fall Pays Own Expenses
The Government contends JEFF
freys was told by telephone to hire
the Burns sleuths.
Two hotel clerks, John F. Schlot-
terbeck Of the Mayflower and james
L. Riddle of the Wardman Park,
where Burns agents gathered, ap-
peared before the grand jury today.
\ Sinclair did not pay the expenses
of his co-oefendant, Fall, who lived
at the Mayflower. 1t was disclosed.
Falls expenses In the Fall-Doheny
Elk Hills conspiracy trial were paid
by E. L. Doheny.
District Attorney Peyton Gordon
after making public one Of the most
remarkable stories Of modern
criminology over the weekend,
said there was no doubt that Burns
and his agents hired to shadow the
oil trial jury planted" evidence
for some Interior purpose" presum-
ably to force a mistrial.
u. s. Shows Hand
The Government showed most OF
It's hand in disclosing that William
j. McNIullin, under the alias "Wil-
liam v. Long" served as a Burns
Jury shadower, at the same time
revealing every step of the espion-
age plot to the Government.
1t was stated emphatically
that the Government has cor
roborated on five different points,
McMullin's statement that he signed
false affidavit on the basis of
which Burns publicly charged Har-
ris r. Lamb, special assistant to
Attorney General Sargent, with hav-
ing private conversations with
Juror Norman Glascock during the
trial.
AFFIDAVIT Called False
The Government also disclosed
that McMullin's testimony involved
Burns personally as having directed
him to get out of Washington, car
nv on and you will be provided for
we'll" after Burns had leveled his
charges.
The Governments new refutation
of Burns charge Of Jury-tampering
took I'D In detail the detective chiefs
story, based on an affidavit by
Long" that Glascock met the driver
of Lambs roadster, license number
"P-1738" at a flying field here. Oct.
%.
McMullin has told the Govern
ment his affidavit was sheer fic-
ton"
McMullin's story also disclosed
that @. G.. Rudy, directing the
agents in the jury-shadowing, or
dered him to submit reports that his
subject. "Glascock. read newspaper
accounts of the trial, In violation
of Justice Siddons' orders. McMul-
lin told Government lawyers these
reports also were false.
Another angle held sinister by
Burns accusers was McMullin's
statement that he faxed reports at
testing that he trailed Glascock for
hours over Maryland automobile
roads, on suggestion Of Rudy. who
pointed out his 17-cent-a-mile ex-
pense money would add considerably
to his revenue.
The flake affidavit" was drafted
by Daniel Wright, attorney for Ma
son Day, and former justice Of the
District Of Columbia Supreme Court
the same court before which Sin
clair and Fall were in Judgment
according to McMullin's story. After
being called of the shadow duty"