Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-12
FOUR CHARGED OF BRIBERY
Criminal Proceedings Against Members Of
South Omaha Schsol Beard.
MILLER, KUsAT, LOTT AND SCHROEDER
Charges Are hat They Accepted
Brides 60 Raise Salaries OF
Teachers and TO Purchase
Certain Machines.

In county court there have been nled seven
complaints charging four member Of the
South Omaha Board Of Education with .ac-
cepting brides from teachers in the schools
for raising their salaries and from the Oil
yer Typewriter company for installing its
machines.
One OF these complaints the county
attorney filed Friday evening against
the president OF the board, Alonzo V. Mil
Ter. In this complaint 1t is related that on
September 10, last. Miller, with intent to
sacrifice all the pious. honorable rules he
had sworn to observe as. an incumbent Of
the office, had a consultation with Cecile
Lyon and took her promise that she
would pay him $40 to cause her salary to
be raised to $50 per month.
AS a second count in the complaint it
10 related that on October 3 he received
from her IS for voting for such raise and
"using his influence to bring about such
raise"
Yesterday two more complaints were filed
against j. L. Kubst, charging that he re-
ceived from Lorenzo, Johnson on October s
the sum of s., and from Sadie Oliver, at the
same time and place, a similar amount. A
third complaint against Kubat charges that
Floyd st. John, manager of the Oliver COM
pany, paid him 1890 October Z. This lat
ter complaint is duplicated against A. l..
Lott, secretary Of the board, and also
against Miller, named in the first COM
plant. There may be other complaints
later, but the last to date is one against
Theodore Schroeder, charging that he &C
cepted $40 from st. John.
Arrest of President Miller.
Miller was arrested on a warrant at his
home in South Omaha at 6 Friday even
ing and brought later to the Douglas county
Jail by Deputy Sheriff James Roach. Miller
gave 81, 900 bend, with George B.. Lasbury Of
the real estate firm Of Wright & Lasbury as
surety. Dol.
The proceedings now instituted are the
result of an investigation that has been
in progress for some time under the super
vision of a purity league, in which ]. Law
erty and Dana Morrill,, new members of the
board, are understood to be active and
which secured the services Of Bernard p.
Baer, a detective from Chicago, who has
arranged the traps, accumulated the evil
dence and made a report in writing which
County Attorney Shields says shows a
"hawless piece of detective work"
The county attorney further says that
neither st. John nor his company should be
blamed as attempting corruption, ST. o
having without the knowledge of even his
company, negotiated the transactions he
did merely to aid the Investigation.
Some Of the Evidence
St. John furnishes one Of the eleven am
davits secured as evidence against the al
legged boodlers In this it is related that
checks were first sent them through Baer,
but that Miller returned them and called
st. John to Rowley's restaurant, where he
criticised the indicate method Of convey
Ing the money. st. John, 1t is alleged In the
a~fhdavit, then invited him to a second meet
ing the next day and upon that occasion
gave him a box OF cigars, In which was a
total Of $3.50 in cash, which was to be d.
vided equally between Miller, Kubat and
Lott, who were the ones who had declined
to accept the check payment.
In another afidavit st. John alleges thai
on October 9, at his ONCE. he cashed for
Schroeder a $40 check Baer had given the
latter and that the said Schroeder, while
In my office, with a wink said: I'VE need
some more machines and II you will tell
me how much there is in It 1 will speak
to Kubat and Murphy and we will put It
through. We really need twelve more
typewriters.' l replied: Twelve machines
would net you $780, He replied: 4 will
let you know as soon as ! have seen the
others"
This afidavit is corroborated by another,
by Otto Gruening, an employe of the COM
PAM. who is alleged to have been present
at the time and witness to Schroeder's
pocketing the money.
"TO Make Himself Solid"
Among the other af1davits is one by N.
M. Graham, who alleges that Miller tried
to persuade him to send Kubat 500 out oil
his first months salary as assistant prin-
cipal at the High school to make himself
solid with Kubat."
Another is by J. T. Sullivan, who charges
Miller with having offered to get the $50
salary OF Sullivan's sister-in-law. Miss La
velle, raised to $55 II he was given $40 fol
Kubat."
Still another charge against Miller is thai
he informed Agnes Ayres, a teacher, thai
she would have to give up IS or $40 which
he. Miller, would need in "sweetening'
Members Kubat and James N. Murphy.
The afidavit of d. A. Pierce. a newspaper
reporter, is that on August IL, Miller ex
tended n handful OF silver. saving: 81 wan