The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-26
Daniel Miller, an Attorney in
Post-Ofice Depart
ment.
APPOINTED BY GEN. TYNER
The Charge Against Miller Has Been Under
Investigation for Three Months---is Was
Bribed by a Cincinnati Turf Com
pany.
(By the Associated Press }

Washington, May 25.-Postmaster Gen
eral Payne today summarily dismissed
Daniel V. Miller, assistant attorney in the
office Of the Assistant Attorney General
for the Postoffice Department for accept
ing bribe in connection with the case
of John ]. Ryan & Company, charged with
fraudulent use of the mails. A warrant
has been issued for Millers arrest.
Another warrant has been issued for
the arrest of a man who is charged with
being the partner or go-between in the
transaction. A postoffice inspector has
gone west from Cincinnati to effect the
arrest, which is expected to occur tonight
or tomorrow. The bribe is alleged to
have been accepted at Cincinnti last Dc
cember.
Miller came here from Terre Haute
Ind, about two years ago. He was ap-
pointed by former Assistant Attorney Gen
eral James N. Tyner The charge against
Miller has been under investigation for
three months. The Ryan Company was a
turf investment concern who operated at
st. Louis and Covington, KY It's methods
and working operations are said TO be
similar to those of the Arnold Company.
which has figured conspicuously in the
postoffice investigation. The inspectors
have been quietly at work on the case
and action was delayed so they might get
together all the papers and evidence.
which, in their opinion, was necessary
Postoffice Inspector w ]. Vickery. at
Cincinnati, nd Postoffice Inspector r. NJ.
Fulton, at st. Louis, recently were given
full charge of the case. Complaint was
made by Inspector Fulton before a United
States Commission in Cincinnati Saturday.
and warrant was then issued for Miller
and for the other parties.
Inspector Fulton Immediately came 70
Washington, while another Inspector went
West from Cincinnati, to make the other
arrest. Inspector Fulton today exhibited
the papers in the case to United States
District Attorney Beach Tonight Miller
IS IN the custody of postoffice inspector
and his formal arrest will follow tomor-
row morning. Miller was at his desk all
day today. He was called to the office OF
Assistant Attorney General Robb shartly
after 3 o'clock this afternoon and mott
fed OF his immediate dismissal and of the
steps that had been taken. He was al
lowed to draw his salary and then return
to the private office of the Assistant At
torney General, where inspectors were in
waiting.
The Ryan Company was the beneficiary
under a decision of the Assistant Attorney
General of the Postoffice Department.
made several months ago, subsequent to
the decision in the Arnold case and
couched in practically the same terms as
that decision.
Those decisions declared the concerns
named to be free to use the mails. The
Arnold decision, it is stated was signed
by Assistant Attorney General Tyner and
the Ryan decision by George A. C.
Chrlstianey, the law clerk of the depart
ment, who was then acting as Assistant
Attorney General on account of Mr..
Tyners protracted illness. Mr.. Christiancy
was at the Postoffice Department today on
a summons from the department ,and was
closely examined regarding .ne case.
1t Is stated that the amount paid Miller
as a bribe aggregated several thousand
dollars, and was in the form of a cash
payment, followed by check This pay
ment Is alleged to have taken place in
Cincinnati, so the case will be tried there,
probably in the October term of the court.
Mr.. Miller probably will give bail for his
appearance at that time. The penalty
for the offence is a fine not more than
three times the amount asked or accepted
and by Imprisonment not more than three
years.