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Show GROSSCUP C0:iiRiIS ; STCaTT OF tliE Ki'O ' iO'SlUDQVli'i'G Surveillance, However,- He Says. Has Nothing to Do ; t With Resignation." CHICACrO, 8ept. 50. FollowinK .th formal announcement yesterday by United PUte Circuit Judge Teter 8. Groncup that he would resign from the federal bench, ha confirmed last night a report that be had beea under surveillance sur-veillance for two year by soms unfriendly un-friendly agency whose motiv he eoold not give. He aaid he bad nothing to conceal from the public, and that th shadowing did aot cause bim to resign. Hi motiv was mors personal and political po-litical freedom, be aaid. It developed that the man who ha directed this inquiry i Lawrence Birhie, a former operator ia th government secret service. He ha done littl els for two years. H or his agents during dur-ing that period bar dogged . Judge Groweup every tep. So persistent waa th pursuit that whra th judge went abroad a year ago last spring he was not allowed to go alone. A "shadow" is said to hav followed fol-lowed htm all th way to Europe and back. Th agency that directed Richie Rich-ie ' activities could not be learned. "Do yon know whom Birhi haa beea working fori" the judge waa asked. 'I beard at one time that he waa working for the government," replied the juriet. "That I believe ia untrue. I also heard that h waa working; for a magazine. That report I also believe to b untrue.. There is nothing either in my private nr professional life, that I am afraid of having investigated. I he nnthino-to conceal." . "How did vou hear of Kichio's work!" m . , "Several of nr elose friend came to St and told m that Birhie waa threatening threat-ening to writ sne up. I waa told long tin ago that an eastern magazine waa ready to begin a series of stories about me a rear ago. These threats wer never any stronger than that, and wer also brought to me by my friends to whom Richie had talked. I wonldn 't know Kiehi if I saw him." It developed during th day that Lawreae Birhie waa employed by a magazine publisher in New York. |