The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-29
ATTY. MERRITT
 SEEKS WARRANTS FOR BURNS MEN
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<Continued from Page One-l entered the house on orders from the street sergeants, and the sergeants stated that they in turn secured their authority from their superior officers According to the police, the Miller es- taoIlshment IS merely a mems rooma ing house.
 Burns men who entered the place on the night of April IT testified in the same meeting this morning, that they found the Miller woman in her apartments on the night of the raid ana that she was sewing when the raiders entered. They found no other women in the house, and only one man who was in bed at the time. He claimed to be a 1odger.
 When the case went to trial in the City court, about 10:3o o'clock, Pros ecutor Delaney told Judge Frank IL Wilder that an examination of wifi nesses and local policemen had re- veaIed no evidence on which the Mil Ter woman could be convicted of keep Ing a disorderiy house. EIis request uhaf the case be nolled was ina1nedi- ately granted by Judge Wilder. Attorney Albert J. Merritt, counsel TOT the accused, asked that the case De tried and then requested the pCos- ecuung attorney to issue warrants for the arrest of four Burns men, who are alleged to have been implicated in the loss of Mrs. Mi1ler's jewelry. 1 E sufficient evidence against these men IS presented to me, I shall not hesitate to issue warrants for their arrest said the prosecutor
 We will produce the evidence" concluded the attorney.
 Attorney Merritt said later this morning, that a complete investiga- 1 ton Of the case is now being made 1 and that action will be taken against 1 somebody. Evidence against the Burns | men will probably be presented to the prosecuting attorney some time today. After the Miller case had been noll-
 ed, Prosecuting Attorney Delaney
 said:
 ''I could never have convicted the
 Miller woman on the evidence pre- i sented by the Burns men in this par
 ticular instance. The local police tes-
 tfnony was also of no aid."
 The case of George Brandt who
 was arrested by Burns men on the
 night of the raid as the keeper of an
 alleged gambling house in Main street
 was continued until Tuesday by the
 City Court inasmuch as the mans 1 counsel, Attorney Henry Greenstein, l was in the Superior Court today and
 unable to appear for his client. Three ] men who were taken as frequenters in the Main street establishment had 1 their cases nolled.
 The list of 157 cases which resulted | from the Burns raids in Bridgeport on 1 April IT, has now sinmered down to
 total of eight, and no startling evil
 dence of vice ring or police connec-
 ton with said ring in this city has as yet been produced by the Burns de- tectives
 Tomorrow will be a quiet day for
 the Burns operatives inasmuch as nd
 raid cases are scheduled to be heard
 in the City Court. Five cases are to
 be heard on Saturday morning. They are those of Salvatore AeiTlo and
 Aristo Apicilla, charged with keeping
 a disorderly house at the corner o1
 South avenue and Lafayette street
 and Joseph Ferrea, Michael Ortula and George GuarioIa, charged with
 keeping a disorderly house at S72
 State street
 Charges against Fioty Dimetri, ac- cused of being the keeper of tfisor- derly house at the corner of South
 avenue and Lafayette street, will be heard Monday morning. George
 Brandt, keeper of an alleged gambling
 house at the Walters club, in Main
 street, will be tried on Tuesday. This leaves only Mary Wilson, the girl who has been held as a star wit ness for the Burns men. Mary is now being held on a technical charge and will probably be arraigned next Tuesday.