The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-26
.BUlBE-TAKER FOUND
AND SUMMARILY DISMISSED FROM
THE DEPARTMENT.
DANIEL v. MILLER THE MAN.
WAS ASSISTANT ATTORNEY IN
POSToFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Miller Is Alleged TO Have Accepted
a Bride of Several Thousand Dol
lars from Ryan a Co., Charged
with Fraudulent Use of the Mails.
| He Was Appointed by Tyner-A
Warrant Was Issued for the Co
Between in the Transaction.
Looking for the Man.
Washington, May 25.-Postmaster
| General Payne to-day summarily dis
missed Daniel V. Miller. assistant at
torney in the Office of the assistant at
torney general for the Postoffice De-
| partment, for accepting bride in con-
nection with the case of John ] Ryan
& Co., 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 inspec
| tor has gone West from Cincinnati to
effect the arrest, which is expected to
occur tonight or tomorrow. The bride
| is alleged to have been accepted at
| Cincinnati last December.
| Miller came here from Terre Haute,
Ind. about two years ago. He was
| appointed by ex-Assistant Attorney
General James N. Tyner. The charge
against Miller has been under inves-
tigation for three months. The Ryan
company was a turf investment con-
Germ, which operated at st. Louis and
| Covington, Ky. Its methods and
working operations are said 30 be sim
liar to those of the Arnold company,
which has figured conspicuously in the
| postofice investigation. The inspec-
tors 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.
Gone to Make an Arrest.
Postoffice Inspector w. ]. Vickery, at
| Cincinnati and Postoffice Inspector r.
| NJ. Fulton at st. Louis, were recently
given full charge of the case. Com
plant was made by Inspector Fulton
before a United States commissioner
in Cincinnati Saturday, and war
rant was then issued for Miller and for
the other party. Inspector Fulton i'm
| mediatey came to Washington, while
| another inspector went West from
| Cincinnati to make the other arrest.
Inspector Fulton to-day exhibited
the papers in the case to United States
District Attorney Beach Tonight
Miller is in the custody of a postofhce
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
| shortly after 8 o'clock this afternoon
| and notified of his immediate dismissal
and of the steps that had been taken.
He was allowed to draw his salary and
then return to the private office Of
the assistant attorney general, where
| inspectors were in waiting.
The Ryan company was the bene-
ficiary under a decision of the assist
ant attorney general of the Postotiice
| Department made several months ago
subsequent to the decision of the Ar
mold case and couched in practically
the same terms as that decision.
Will he Tried in Cincinnati.
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
department, who was then acting as
sstant attorney general on account of
Mr.. Tyners protracted illness. Mr..
Christiancy was at the Postoffice De-
partment to-day on a summons from
the department and was closely exam
ined regarding the case.
1t is stated that the amount offered
Miller as a bride aggregated several
thousand dollars and was in the form
of a cash payment, followed by
check. This payment is alleged to have
taken place in Cincinnati, so the case
will be tried there, probably in the Oc-
| It,. 90 10
probably give bail for his appearance
at that time. The penalty for the Of
Tense is a fine not more than three
times the amount asked or accepted,
and Imprisonment not more than three
sears.
Arrested for Conspiracy.
Miller was taken to the City Hall to-
night and placed under arrest by a dep
uty marshal. He waived examination
and was released on $500 bond for APP
pearance al court in Cincinnati next
autumn.
The warrant. it was learned late to-
night, charges conspiracy instead of
bribery as first reported.
warrant on the same charge has
been issued for the arrest of Joseph NJ.
Johns. a lawyer of Rockville, Parke
county Ind. 1t was intended to have
both arrests made al the same time,
but no report has been received yet
of Johns apprehension.
Postmaster General Payne made the
announcement of this latest develop
ment in the investigation this after
noon in a brief statement giving the
foregoing facts. Mr.. Payne said that
this statement was all that could be
said at this time, in view of the fact
that the case is now before the judicial
authorities. He said the case has been
under consideration ever sinee the gen.
eral investigation began, and added
that there would be another arrest i'm
mediately. The party. he said is out
side Of the department.
He declined to say what explanatory
statement had been made by Miller.
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