The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-26
FOR ACCEPTING A BRlBE
ANoTHER PoSToFFTCE OFFICIAL
 SUMMARILY DISMISSED.
Warrant Issued for Arrest of Daniel v. Miller, Assistant Attorney in the Office of Ihc Assistant Attorney General Connived With J. J. Ryan & Co.,, Get- Rfch.Quick Turf Operators, to De- fraud the MaIIs-Warrant for Co., Between.

Washington, May 25. - Postmaster missed Daniel V. Miller, assistant attor- ney in the office of the assistant attor- ney general for the postofffce depart ment for accepting a bribe in connec- tion with the case of John J. Ryan & Co., the get-rich-quick turf operators, charged with fraudulent use of the mails. A warrant has been issued for Miller's arrest.
 Another warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man who is charged with being the partner of a go-between in the transaction. A postoffice inspec- tor 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 Cincinnati last December.
 Miller came here from Terre Haute, Ind. about two years ago. He was ap- pointed by Former Assistant Attorney General James N. Tyner. The charge against Miller has been under investiga- tion for three months The Ryan com pany was turf investment concern which operated at St. Louis and Coving- ton, Ky. Its methods and working op- eratidns are said to be similar to. those of the Arnold company, which has fig ured conspicuously in the postoffice in vestisation.
 The inspectors have been quietly at work on the case and action was de- layed so they might get together all the papers and evidence which, in their opinion, was necessary. Postoffice in- spector in charge, W. F. Vickery, at Cincinnati, and Postoffice Inspector R. M Fulton at St. Louis, recently were given full charge of the case. Com- plaint was made by Inspector Fulton before United States commissioners in Cincinnati Saturday and warrant was then issued for Miller and for the other party. Inspector Fulton immediately went to Washington while another in- spector went west from Cincinnati to make the other arrest. Inspector Full ton to-day exhibited the papers in the case to United States District Attorney Beach Tonight Miller is in the cus- tody of postoffiee inspector and his formal arrest will follow tomorrow morning. Miller was at his desk all day
 
 to-day. He was called into the office of Assistant Attorney General Robb short ly after o'clock this afternoon and mo- tified of bis immediate dismissal and of the steps that have been taken. He was allowed to draw his salary and then re- turn to the private office of the assist ant attorney general, where inspectors were in waiting. The Ryan company was the benefi- ciary under a decision of the assistant attorney general of the postoffice de- partment, made several months ago, subsequent to the decision in the Arnold case and couched in practically the same terms as that decision.
 l 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. Christiancy. the law clerk of the de- partment, who was then acting assist I I-u