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Show oiiio solo;:s ARECIECED Willi CHEERY Detectives 'Claim 'to Have ' Evidence Secured by Novel Methods. COLUMBUS. O.. May l.Member of th legiltnr are flocking into the city on early morning train today, hours earlier than - usasl on Mondays because of the ehargee made by detective de-tective who have beea her for weeks, secretly investigating legislative brio ery,., that they have unearthed the wont ' arandal In ' th history of the Ohio general -aasembly. . Senators aad representatives who are openly charged with having accepted money had not reached the eity early today, ao their version of the detective story ia.not known' at Srt hand, although al-though several, ar qaoted from their horn town denying th charge. . General Gen-eral Harmon ia to consult with Attor aey General Hogaa regarding the sen- eeuvasi ueveiopmenza. , Detaetivss Arraigned. Three detectives. F. B. Harrison of New York, A. a Bgllev ' nsd Dnvid Berry of Chicago, will be nrraigssd in police court for alleged bribery of Representative- George H. Nye. Detective De-tective Harrison name four atata sen-store sen-store with whom be had dealing aad to. whom he declared k paid moaev, Th .legislator meets at Ii p. m. to dsv, when aa investigation committee will be- aprxiinred.' " ' llmley, Harnwa and Berry, the detective de-tective siierativea, ' wer srrsigned ill nolic court todav. 1 Bailey aad Harrison were bound over to th grand jury in bonds of g.VMH) each, and Berry was beuad over to the grand fury on the charge of bribery in bonda of (2500. Their bonds were signed bv n aurety compaay.. ''We have stenographic eopiee of every word that paased between Representative Rep-resentative Nye and the other men involved in-volved in thia matter," aaid Detective Harriaoa todny. Bvldene by Dictaphone. ' "The evidence waa secured by th mesn of n dictaphone. You know what n dictaphone iaf It consists of a aumber of delicate discs arranged so that ths sounds spoke in n room caa be carried forty or fifty feet bv means of wires connected with nn electric battery. bat-tery. , "1 met Dr. Ny in thi room. In th next room waa a. teographer. A door connected the two rooms. In front of the door I placed a couch ia my room. Th dictaphone waa -nnder the couch, the wire ruining into th next room, where the steaographor sat with a telephone receiving errssgeatent on hie head.- Whenever Nye r any one else whose conversation I wanted recorded re-corded catered the room, mv tip to the stenographer wa th usual stereotyped greeting, extended unusually loud. 'How ar you this morning, doctor!' waa mv signal to the ., ateaographer when Nye came in." Harrison said today; "Twenty member mem-ber of th legislature are involved in this scandal. If I had been here a week longer I' would have run out of moaev. they were ao eeger for it. It will take us a week to tell nil we havs found out.' |