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Gough, six miles outside of the city, and there he discovered a shed more than 100 feet long concealed in a dense woods. The widely published UPI dispatch revealed the following: Fourteen men in the employ of the Morgan Telephone Company of this city were at work there on some secret occupation. Paul B. Morgan, head of the telephone company, is a close friend of Wallace E. Tillinghast, who is supposed to be the inventor of the mysterious flying machine... Morgan has been interested in aviation for several years, and two years ago he spent $15,000 trying to perfect a machine invented by a Swedish aviator. The Swedish invention, however, proved unsatisfactory and was abandoned... John D. Gough, on whose estate the shed was found, is an old-time temperance lecturer and is friendly with Tillinghast and Morgan. His place is near West Boylston. The secrecy maintained at the Gough estate and the careful manner in which the shed discovered today is being guarded lends new weight to the belief that a marvelous ship has been constructed. The correspondent was taken before the justice summarily today, and the swift manner in which he was prosecuted for trespassing is believed to have been employed as a warning to others who might attempt to invade the secrecy of the airship plant. There were many more sightings of brilliant lights apparently under intelligent control over Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts on December 24, and the “‘searchlight’’ was frequently described by the many witnesses. Reporters from New York and Boston converged on Worcester and tried to interview Mr. Tillinghast, but he fell silent again. All they could learn was that ‘Mr. Tillinghast is a businessman of good standing in Worcester. He is an experienced mechanic and has invented several devices which are the foundation of the company of which he is vice-presi- dent. He has made a specialty of airships for eleven years, he says.” The Providence, Rhode Island, Journal remarked: Tillinghast is absolutely incommunicado. The notoriety that has followed him since the mysterious lights were seen has seriously interfered with his business and with his homelife. He has not been permitted an hour’s peace. At his office there are constantly two or three persons who want to know something. At the door of his place of business and at his home he is closely watched by mysterious men. When he is home, his telephone rings constantly. As his wife has only 104 / Operation Trojan Horse