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Show Pinkerton Detective Reveals He Sliadowtd U. S. Official .' .. s , v. i PL WASHINGTON, Feb. (INS) Pinkerton detective operatives spied on and "shadowed" Edward F. Me-Grady. Me-Grady. assistant secretary of labor, while he attempted to settle a strike at the Chevrolet company in Toledo, Ohio, in 1835. the senate civil liberties liber-ties committee wse told today. William H. Martin. Plnksrton op- retire, said that ha waa sent to Toledo from Pittsburgh to "shadow" McOrady. Martin testified that a room next to McCrady's at the Secor hotel had been engaged for him by other Pinkerton detectives and that he waa "asslgnsd to follow McGrady day and night." "I was told to go to the room as soon as McGrady arrived In town," Martin aaid, "so thst I could sit In there and hear what they were talking talk-ing about." "What did you hear?" asked Senator Sen-ator Thomas D Utah). "The arrangement wasn't any good," Martin replied, "because I couldn't bear a thing. But we kept the room and kept trying anyway as long as McOrady stayed in Toledo." To-ledo." Martin said that his experiences with McGrady almost cost him his job. EDWARD r. MoGRADT His 'shadow' couldn't hear "I was to follow him out on the streets, too," he said, "but ho waa too fast for me. Every time McOrady Mc-Orady would leave his hotel I would try to follow him, but he always beat ma to a taxi and thaavl would lose him. "I just couldn't follow him, and Vm here to tell you that I got hell for It" Martin laid that tha arrangements arrange-ments to spy on McGrady were made by R. L Bumside, manager of the Detroit Pinkerton agency, who had gone to Toledo "to cover the strike." "Do you mean to tell me," asked Thomas, "that the agency knew of Mr. McOrady movement la advance ad-vance and that Mr. Burnatd was able to engage room next to Mo-dredy's Mo-dredy's at the hotel long before hi arrival?" "Yes. that waa It," replied Martin. Mar-tin. "We always work like that" "I It the practice of tho Pinkerton Pinker-ton detective agency to shadow official of-ficial of the government like that?" asked Thomas. "I don't know about tho practice part of It" replied Martin, "but In this case It waa, for that was my job, even If J dldnt get anything on him." |