Show BURNS SLEUTH EXPOSES GAME BOSS PLAYED IN OIL CASE Famous Agency A Is Given Gi Black Eye By 13 Own Operative Op GIVES TIP TO T U. U S. S Former Governor Pinchot Central Figure in New Sensation WASHINGTON Nov 12 By By The Associated Press Testimony that the Burns detective agency fabricated reports for use should the defense in Inthe inIce he the Sinclair Fall-Sinclair oil conspiracy case decide that a n. mistrial was necessary was presented today to the grand Jury investigating Inv the tho surveillance of the trial tria 1 Jurors It was as furnished by one of the Burns Durns own operatives op who since October Oc Oc- October Oc- Oc October tober 24 2 had ben bren assisting the gov guy government government In weaving a net about Nil Wll- WIllIam lIam ham J J. J Burns his son W W. Sherman Burns and more than a I dozen de de- de sent out here at the behest b hest of oC Henry Mason Day one of Harry r F. 1 Sinclair's confidential associates FALSE LSE AFFIDAVIT IT This operative ope William J J. J McMullIn of at Philadelphia a World war veteran vetran and known to Burns and his men as William V V. Long with the code designation designation designation nation of L 35 He Ste swore that those thosa directing the Jury shadowing opera opra- o operations ra- ra lions required him to swear to a a. false affidavit on which William J J. J Burns based his charge of Jury Umpiring tamp by government agents and which was pre pre- presented presented to the oil all trial Judge Justice Frederick L. L Siddons by counsel for Burns McMullIn declared that at atthe atthe atthe the time the affidavit was presented pre the elder Burns founder of the de defective de- de e agency knew that It was false This affidavit had lo to do with the nl- nl activities of Harris n R. Lamb special assistant to the attorney gen gen- genera general era eral whom McMullIn declares was never shadowed for even a a. moment Some of the high lights in McMullin's lin's lins whole story etory were made public by District Attorney Gordon after aeter former f Governor Pinchot of QI Pennsylvania had apP fed before the the grand Jury to tell teU that McMullIn Mcl had voluntarily come to tl him on October Octo r 24 4 se cn days after aeter the Teapot Dome trial started and ind nd explained what the Burns Bums men were undertaking to do REPORTS Pinchot reported immediately ly to Owen J J. J Roberts of sD covern- covern ment oil counsel and then were laid to trap the private operatives op Under orders of the government go Mc Mc- McMullIn McMullin MullIn continued to serve with the Burns agency As Gordon told the story In the presence of Pinchot and McMullIn the Philadelphia man who formerly was as as an Insurance adjuster was em em- employed by the Burns agency on Oc- Oc labor r 13 and sent h here re on October 18 18 after aCter the oil trial Jury had been b en sworn in McMullIn became so 60 disgusted I I within a few days that list he went vent to Governor Pinchot Gordon said He ll had read In the newspapers new papers that Pin Pin- Pinchot Pinchot chot was vas in town and he sought him out because as he expressed it he knew the governor go was OT on the level It was on the basis of McMullin's Mcl reports that counsel II- II fInall nally nall went before Justice Siddons to present the reports of the activities cf of the Burns men and amid to suggest a mis mIs- mistrial mIstrial mistrial trial in which defense counsel Joined This Is was vas on October 31 BURNS IN IS IGNORANCE CC Still the Bums Burns people were in Ig Ignorance Ig- Ig ignorance norance as IlS to lo how the government got its information McMullIn never ne came under suspicion and two days after the mistrial was vas ordered he was asked to make an sic affidavit based upon the false faise reports he said he had signed concerning the activities of Lamb the tha government go agent to whom Burns referred In us making his charge of Jury tampering ring by the government In the th day that Burns urns was announcing log leg the filing of the affidavits direct direct- directed ed cd against Lamb Mc was In the fie theoffice office of Nell Neil assistant district attorney In charge charee of the In Investigation In- In preparing an arm affidavit of six to seven pages embody embodying lug the knowledge he had gained from his con con- contact contact tact with the operatives UNDER V DEn BURNS BURNS' Un s' s NOSE Burkinshaw explained that he de decided de- de deeded eded to work right under the eyes ees ol of Burns and his men because If he met McMullIn away from fro the courthouse their suspicions would have been aroused He was WIlS apprehensive that Liat his plan might go awry but apparently It was entirely successful From the time of at the mistrial the th Burns Bums men risen knew as they put it that they had been sold out but they professed proCessed complete Ignorance as to the identity of the person from whom the government got Its Information They even en questioned newspaper men risen menon on cn thai point |