Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-23 | Page 9 | Detective Burns is to be Investigated

DETECTIVE BURNS IS TO BE INVESTIGATED NEW YORK. May 22. Alleged activities activi-ties of William J. Burns, head of the Burns Detective agen-y. installing a listening listen-ing device in the office of the munitions dealing law firm of Seymour & Sevniour will be ttie subject of an investigation by l he grand jury on Tuesday. This was made by District Attorney Edward Swann when he made public today a . letter to Frederick Seymour, summoning him to make a complaint to the grand jury "asainst any person whom you have evidence." evi-dence." s II was alleged before the Thompson legislative investigating committee, which bronchi Rurns's activities to light in connection con-nection with an inquiry into police wiretapping, wire-tapping, that th Burns agency was acting act-ing for J. P. Morgan ts Co. in an effort to trace a leakage of confidential information infor-mation in respect Lo munitions contracts.