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Show POLICE TAP WIRE TO PROTECT MORGAN New York, May 18. The telephone wire of the law firm of Seymour & Seymour was "tapped" by the police, District Attorney Swann asserted tonight, to-night, not because they were searching search-ing for a clue to a plot that might result in international complications, as Mayor Mltchel and Police Commissioner Com-missioner Woods had intimated earlier ear-lier In the day. but because J. P. Morgan & Co. had complained that official documents were being stolen from their office. The Morgan documents were given to someone who had desk room in Seymour & Seymour's office, Mr. Swann declared, and who realized large sums by selling the information informa-tion they contained to American munition manufacturers. He made it clear that Seymour & Seymour had no connection with this transaction. On the other hand, Mayor Mltchel and Commissioner Woods, who previously prev-iously had appeared beforo the Thompson legislative committee, demanding de-manding a hearing on the wire-tapping charges, maintaining that the telephone had been "tapped" In the regular line of police work, confirmed con-firmed in part the district attorney's story, but Insisted that their rather guarded ropovt of a plot still hold good. |