Payne's Statement?

[L Verge]

He claimed that he alerted a higher-up in the Commissary General's Office where he worked that there were some strange happenings at his boardinghouse, but evidently nothing was followed up on. Mr. Hall wondered if the message was passed along and the authorities decided to watch the situation instead of breaking up the fun. Once you raided a "place of interest," the plotting just moved somewhere else.