Republican farmer., 1920-04-30
ATTORNEY MERRITT
 SEEKS WRITS FOR
 4BURNS OPERATIVES
Delaney Will Issue Warrants If Sufficient Evidence Is Supplied to Insure Convictions Case of Ella Miller NOlled.

Whatever plans the Burns detectives may have in mind in connection with the recent vice raids in this city, received a severe set back in the City court this morning when the case of Ella Miller, of 77 State street, who was arrested on charge of keeping a disorderly house was nol1ed, and Attor- ney Albert J. Merritt asked that warrants be issued for the , arrest of four Burns operatives who participated in the raid on the Miller woman's apartments on the night of April IT.
 Ella Miller entered a formal com- l plaint against the Burns men on the night of the raid, charging them with the theft of jewelry valued at several | thousands of dollars. Prosecuting l Attorney Alexander L. Delaney told Attorney Merritt that he would not | hesitate to issue warrants for the Burns men if supplied with sufficient 1 evidence to secure a conviction. ] Unable to produce enough evidence to convict the Miller woman on the | reputation of her house alone, Burns | men this morning fell back on tba 1 local police to testify as to the char l acter of the house in State street 1 Four sergeants and about IS patrol | men who have been on the beat on 1 which the Miller house is located. tes- hhed at a meeting in the superinten- | dents office, that they had visited the place a number of times in the mast two years, but had found nothing to i indicate that the house was disorder | ly- The patrolmen claimed that they 1 entered the house on orders from the 1 street sergeants, and the sergeants stated that they in turn secured their authority from their superior officers According to the police, the Miller es- tabiishment is merely a mems room ing house.
 Burns men who entered the pIacs
 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
 and 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 Iodger
 When the case went to trial in the City court, about 10:30 o'clock Pros- ecutor Delaney told Judge Frank L. Wilder that an examination of wit nesses and local policemen had re- vealed no evidence on which the Mil Ter woman could be convicted of keep ing a disorderly house. His request that the case be nolIed was imme ately granted by Judge Wff1er
 Attorney Albert J. Merritt, counsel for the accused, asked that the case be tried, and then requested the pros ecuting attorney to issue warrants for the arrest of four Burns men, who are alleged to have been implicated in the loss of Mrs. Millers je~eEy.
 'fm sufficient evidence against these men IS presented to me, I shall moi hesitate to issue warrants for theiI arrest said the prosecutor.
 we will produce the evidence" concluded the attorney.
 i Attorney Merritt said later this morning, that a complete investiga-
 tion of the case is now being made
 and that action will be taken against somebo ody. 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:
 q could never have convicted the | i Miller woman on the evidence pre- sented by the Burns men in this par ticular instance. The local police tes- timony 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 | counsel, Attorney Henry Greenstein, z was in the Superior Court today and l unable to appear for his client Three men who were taken as frequenters Cnntinned On Papn Ei<h+