Evening star., 1936-07-18
SHOWDOWN NEAR
ION 'SN|P|NG' PROBE
|BY SECRET SERVICE
Treasury Officials Question
Head Of st. Paul Office
| on Activities.
QUIZ OF OTHER AGENTS
IN WEST WILL FOLLOW
Joseph Murphy, Assistant Chief,
Ordered Here From California
for Interrogation.
BY REX COLLIER.

BY REX COLLIER.
The mystery of the "misconstrued"
orders which led Secret Service agents
in st. Paul and Chicago to stray from
their legal field of operations into an
'ill-advised" undercover investigation
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Is expected to be cleared up with the
arrival here Of Joseph Murphy, assist
ant chief of the Secret Service.
Murphy, quoted as being "horrihed"
that any Of his men might have mis-
construed anything I told them" has
been ordered here from Califoria,
where he was reached by telephone
Wednesday night.
Meanwhile Treasury officials were
interviewing Grady l.. Boatwright,
head Of the st. Paul ofiice of the
Secret Service, who, it is said, has
named Murphy as the Official who in
structed him to check up on F. B. I.
sunplay In the fatal shooting Of Eddie
Green, Dillinger gangster, in 1884.
Thomas J. Callahan, head of the
Chicago office, and Harry Schaetzel,
Secret Service agent, also are to be
questioned in connection with an in
ouiry as to whether the fatal shooting
Of John Dillinger in Chicago, two years
ago, was justified.
Not Authorized Under Law.
Such inquiries are outside the au-
thority Of the Secret Service, which.
as . result of similar activities in 1908
under orders Of President Theodore
Roosevelt, was restricted by Congress
to investigating counterfeiting and
protecting the President and his
family.
Secretary Of the Treasury Morgen-
thau ID understood to have expressed
displeasure over the activities of the
Secret Service men and to have tele-
phoned assurances to Attorney Cen
eral Cummings and to Director j. Ed
gar Hoover of the r. B. I. that the af-
fair will be thoroughly sifted.
Disclosure that the "check-up" by
the Secret Service men on the Dill
Nnger case has been going on for sew
eral months has made the matter
more pu1sling than ever. Persons IN
st. Paul are said to have informed
the G-men they were approached by
Secret Service men as long ago as
April and May. More than 4 dozen
citizens in st. Paul, including under
world characters, police and witnesses
to the Green shooting were questioned.
President Roosevelt is away, but it
is believed the White House Is being
kept advised of developments in the
Treasury's inquiry.
Conference Long One.
Boatwright was in conference for
several hours yesterday with w. H.
McReynolds, administrative assistant
to Morgenthau, and with w. H. Mo-
ran, chief Of the Secret Service. Both
officials have expressed concern over
the investigations in st. Paul and
Chicago.
Apparently none Of the persons in
terviewed by the Secret Service men
gave information to the discredit Of
the G-meH. Several tipped on agents
of the F. B. I. that an apparent effort
to get" them was under way. It
was the belief OF these citizens that
Secret Service men were being i'm
personated by enemies Of Hoover, and
this led to the sensational disclosure
that the interviewers were not i'm
posters but actual Secret Service
operatives.
Green, bank robber and machine
gunner and the man who arranged
medical treatment for Dillinger after
the. latter was wounded by G-men in
st. Paul on March 81, 1884, was fatally
shot when he reached toward his gun
pocket after being trapped by F. B. I.
agents. He survived for a week, max
ing q full confession of his participa-
ton with Dillinger in numerous bloody
forays
In his apartment were found two
machine guns, the stock Of another
belonging to Dillinger, shotgun, an
automatic rife, . As caliber automatic
pistol, . bullet-proof vest and much
ammunition.
Details Of the Dillinger shooting in
Chicago are too well known 10 repeat
here.