The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-05
Palmer Is Not To
 Quit
States He Hopes Daugh- erty Will Send Repre- sentative to InveSti- gate Charges.

Hartford, Conn.,, Oct. 5-T hope that Attorney General Daugherty will send a representative to investigate charges, through suggestion and in nuendo, made against the office of the United States Marshal.
 'It has been reported to me that President Harding has been asked to remove me and has refused.
 'I have not been asked to resign. there has been no suggestion that l resign, and I shall not resign
 These were included in statement today by United States Marshal Will liam R. Palmer at his office in New Haven, in commenting on a report to the effect that officials of the admlnls- tration in Washington had been in formed of charges linking him with activities of the Connecticut boot logging ring. It had been reported that his resignation had been asked for. He has about two more years to serve as marshal for the federal dis trict of Connecticut
 Referring to the charges that ne was linked up with bootlegSerS MT. Palmer said that such charges could be expected by any official who had anything to do with handling Of liquor at this time. "I wish some body would make direct charges" he said, ESQ that they could be investi- gated by proper authorities. But those who apparently are back of the reports stick to suggestions and innuendo which have absolutely no basis of fact.
 NO official in Washington. either the President, the attorney general or anybody else has demanded or sug- gested that I resign and I shall stay right where I am for the rest of my term unless the President removes me, and I doubt very much if he would do that, although I have been told that MT. Harding was asked to remove me and refused to take ac- | tion. Marshal Hawley was allowed | to Serve out his term when there | was a change of administration and
 I think the same policy will govern 1 my caSe.''
 He added that he had been inform | ed that his successor had already
 been picked by the Republican state
 machine and that this man was anx- | ious to take office and the Republi- | can leaders were anxious to have him. In commenting on the storing of seized liquors he said that this was Hayes, "as reliable and honest a man as I have ever met" ''But," he add | ed there are number of small men
 who can't see how an official could be given custody of seized liquor with
 out profiting through the possession
 of such liquor."
 MT. Palmer spoke at length on the
 lack of a deputy marshal in Hartford TOT Wnlcn SlIuaIlOn- ne Sdlu- ne IisbU | been criticized. He said that this
 was due to the fact that Washington | had not responded to his recommend
 ation that a deputy be authorized fol | every city in the state in which there | was q federal commissioner. This
 would apply to Bridgeport, Danbury Norwich and New London as well as | Hartford as a city rather hard to get at,'' from many parts of the state but claimed that Commissioner Cor bett had had deputy marshal or hand within an hour whenever he
 had asked for one. He expressed the l opinion that the headquarters of the special agents and of the United
 State attorney should be in New Ha- ven.