Evening star., 1936-07-19
SHIFTS EXPECTED
|NSECRETS SERVICE
Morgenthau Said to Reflect
Roosevelt Views on "Snip-
ing" Report.
BY REX COLLIER.

A shake-up in the Secret Service
is expected to follow the disclosure
officially characterized as '.horrify-
ing'-that agents Of that veteran in
vestigative service have been Spying"
on their fellow Government agents,
the Justice Departments G-men.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau is said to have reflected the
attitude of President Roosevelt when
he expressed to the Department of
Justice his CONSERVATION over pre-
liminary substantiation of "sniping'
reports that have been current for
some weeks.
Grady L. Boatwright, agent in charge
of the St. Paul Office of the Secret
Service. is said to have confirmed
under questioning here yesterday that
he and another Secret Service man
under his command have been ques-
tioning eye-witnesses to the fatal
shooting by G-men in 1884 of Eddie
Green, Dillinger machine gunner.
Murphy En- Route Here.
Boatwright, first Of several agents
ordered to come to Washington and
explain their "ill-advised" activities,
Is understood to have said he was
directed to make an investigation of
the Green case by Joseph Murphy,
assistant chief of the Secret Serv-
Ice. Murphy Is said be en- route here
from the Pacific Coast. where, reach
ed by telephone, he expressed sur
prise that his men might have mis-
construed" anything he told them.
Murphy is to be interrogated as to
what he might have told his men that
could have been. interpreted by them
as instructions for a check-up on
work of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation in st. Paul and Chicago.
Thomas J. Callahan, in charge Of
the Chicago Office of the Secret Serv-
ice. and Harry Schaetzel, agent in the
Chicago Office, have been called upon
to explain certain inquiries made of
police and other persons about the
death Of John Dillinger at the hands
of F. B. I. agents just two years ago.
Duties Limited in 1908.
The present explosion parallels
somewhat the furore caused in Con-
gress in 1908 over disclosure that the
Secret Service was spying" on en-
ployes of various executive depart
ments and on Senators and Represen-
tatives, themselves AS result, the
jurisdiction Of the service was linn
tied to suppression of counterfeiting
and protecting the President.
President Theodore Roosevelt threw
q bombshell into Congress when he
sent a message denouncing the restric-
ton Of Secret Service activities and
insinuating that members of Congress
were afraid to be investigated.
In discussions on the floor Of the
Senate, it was brought out the Secret
Service had "shadowed" q naval officer
who had run away with the wife Of
some one else, and had made a report
upon which the officer was discharged.
Roosevelt's Message Direct.
In asking for elimination of the
limitations on Secret Service activity,
Theodore Roosevelt told Congress:
"The chief argument in favor of the
provision (for restriction) was that
the Congressman did not themselves
wish to be investigated by Secret Serv-
ice men. Very little Of such investi-
cation has been done in the past, but
it is true that the work of the Secret
Service agents was partly responsible
for the indictment and conviction of
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