Establishing themselves across the street in a room on the fifth floor of Holy Family Hospital, a team of officers initiated round-the-clock surveillance of the house, taking down the license plate numbers of every car that deposited or collected a man at its front steps.
But by February 1942, with the nation’s citizenry on high alert to report any form of suspicious activity to the authorities, the large numbers of sailors seen entering and exiting Beekman’s home at strange hours attracted the attention of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
The intersex rights movement is ready for its momentīefore America declared war against Germany and Japan in December 1941, Beekman occasionally landed in trouble with law enforcement he’d already been convicted of operating “disorderly” houses.