| Show J I W. W J. J Burns No Respecter of Persons Finds Way Into Spotlight of Scandal l i I I By RODNEY DUTCHER N NEA EA Service Writer The WASHINGTON The blowup of the Sinclair Fall tl trial al turned turned- the spotlight on moro more peculiar situations situations situa situa- Lions and circumstances than any airy incident in Washington since the Teapot Dome Doheny and Daugherty Daugherty Daugherty Daugh Daugh- erty scandals were vere first uncovered For Poi instance it ht brough t t that ha t mos inos person William am J J. J Burns Bums back into the stocks of notoriety no no- Only one brief sequence of I events is needed to show show- that the tire I Burns Burns' career has been without parallel In 1912 It wa was revealed that Burns had been involved inthe in ni inthe nithe the picking of a Jury which convicted convicted convicted con con- aman named named Jones In pard par par- d dosing lIng Jones President Taft accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac the conclusions of or Attorney General Wickersham about Burns Burns' activities and referred to them as the most barefaced and unfair use of or all the tire for drawing a jury whIch he had ever encountered Yet when wirer Harding Hardin became president picsi- picsi dent and Daugherty was named at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney general Burns was put Inan In an extremely important position of ot trust as ali head of the tire investigation atlon bureau of of the department of justice jus jus- justice tice Now we have Burns a again ain a private vate vats detective Involved as an era cm- ei of men v whom horn the tire government government govern govern- ment charges were vere used in a plot piot to influence the tIre Sinclair Fall jurors S Burns never was a respecter of persons The Tire attempts of ot his iris bu bu- bu- bu to get Set something on on senators senator who s sought to expose poso Intire in inthe the tire interior and justice departments should b be recalled Investigation of department of justice files flIes during the tire senate Inquiries Inquiries- revealed some seine raising hair sidelights on methods and results of the justice departments departments department's depart depart- ments ment's attempts to get something Oil on others little of which was vas ever ever publicly exposed because of the tire prominence of persons concerned concerned con con- corned Now ow as a no grand jury investigates the Sinclair Pall trial fiasco the tire government reveals that a Burns Bums t S p w W J. J Burns ze c o the eye and founder cf of the Burns Detective agency is is shown here hefe with his son W W. W Sherman Burns also a mem- mem her ber of the famous agency man shadowed and aird reported on an assistant attorney general of the tire United States Stales while his comrades were tr trying Ing to establish contact with jurors It is charged that one of oC Pall Falls Fall's s counsel used another de- de pal official to Investigate this assistant attorney general The question continues to be asked why as marry many as sixteen men were trusted with the very delicate job iob of jury shadowing with apparent ont ent nt disregard of t tile the e possibility that one or 01 more might spill the beans beairs It seems obvious that anyone if anyone was Uj ing to tamper with the jury jur such sucha a method would indicate either dicer heer desperation or indifference as asto asto asto to hethel or not a mistrial were declared de N Your our coi respondent correspondent talked for half an hour with Henry Mason Dav Da Day now under bond as an alleged fixer before he ire went before the grand jury jur Day Is a a. tall taU al almost almost almost al- al most swarthy apparently powerful and sartorially Immaculate man of the tIle world not cultured but suave He lIe seemed alternately steely or penetrating and boyishly naive One felt feU that one would rather have Day as a friend than an enemy His official title is vice presIdent of the tire Sinclair Exploration company an organization of Sinclair ll geologists Day is not a geologist he is much more One gathers that Day I is is- iscom com com- chief mander-ln-chief of Sinclair's Sinclair s foreign foreign foreign for for- eign forces forces forces-a a fixer as it ft were who has mixed with cabinet members in various arious parts of the world where there is oil or interest in It ft He has represented Sinclair In the Jatter's latter latter's lat Jat- lat lat- ter ter's s bids for vast fortunes In hr oil l Poi For instance Sinclair left him in Russia in 1923 t t. t to negotiate a a. huge concession from the soviet government govern govern- ment Until a few days ago Day Dav was waR bettel known in Europe and andA A At i 1 than in the United States He Heis Heis Heis is voted to Sinclair l I tire tile government proves any of its tampering jury charges against Sin Sill or Day Dav the question will promptly arise as to what the jury- jury fixing rates would have been had the plot gone through Day hired a chauffeur for Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- clair chair at wages of 27 a da day and aird when taken into consideration along with the tire large sums paid for wages and expenses of oL the detectives that fact would indicate that p plenty enty of money was available for one purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose or another |
