Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-03-20
Wife of Cedar County Official
Gives State Zip" That
Leads to Removal of
Husband. I

Lincoln, March 19.-(Special y
Gov. S. r. McKelvie ordered the
suspension OF County Attorney Rich
ard ]. Millard Of Cedar county today
on mass OF evidence including a
statement from State Deputy Sheriff
X. n. Fulton that Millard had a
touch OF delirium tremens last
Tuesday, while trying bootleggir 6
cases.
The deputy sheriff said Millard
had been drunk for the last three
weeks" Aflidavits of six local citi-
zens Of Harrington, Neb,, the county
seat. said Alillard had been intoXi-
Gated "at different tines the last SIX
months.
The investigation which led to
Millard's suspension was made at
the request OF Mrs. Margaret Mil
lard, Ihis wife. who wrote the gov
ernor' March I, asking him to send
agents to investigat widespread
bootlegging and the operation OF IL
llClt StlllS Ill tue Town.
Will Start Proceedings.
The governor has ordered At1or-
uey General Clarence A. Davis to
file removal proceedings in the lis
trict court Before these proceed
ings are filed, the county attorney
will be given an opportunity to re-
sign. it was said at the attorney gen
erals office.
The governor took his action on d
letter from Secretary H. II. Antics
Of the state department of public
welfare, enclosing afidavits of six
citizens, including Sheriff +. +, Nc.
Fadden, letter from State Sheriff
Gus Hyers and one from Deputy
State Sheriff Fulton and the original
letter from Mrs. Millard to the gov
ernor, asking him to investigate con-
ditions at Harrington.
Others who signed the affidavit
were E. -PafneJys ". Fl. Stephen
son. c. M. Olsen. L. A. Miller and
S. A. Willard. The affidavit said
that the signers had observed the
county attorney daily for the last six
months and that they had seen him
''ili a state of intoxication at differ
ent times and in different places"
Was Trying Bootleggers.
HE had been drunk for the last
three weeks, and yesterday, while
trying out our bootlegging cases, he
had a touch OF delirium tremens
commonly known as Snakes in the
boots,'" said r. N. Fulton, state in
vestigator, in a letter to State Sheriff
Gus Hyers dated Wednesday, March
10.
Fulton added that Sheriff McFad
den had been handicapped in law
enforcement operations, because the
county attorney was believed to tlr
off raids on bootleggcrs.
An airplanc is reported to have
been i'll the habit OF landing at
Devils Nest, near Grafton, Neb., in
Cedar county, every two weeks with
cargo of liquor, Mrs. Millard SAID
in her letter to the governor asking
hin. to send out an investigator.
Wife Tips" Officer.
She made no mention of her hus-
band in the letter, but declared that
if she only wore star and had
authority, She would have the Jail full
of bootleggers and gamblers.
She said number of stills were i'll
full operation at Harrington, and
bootleggers follow high school boys
out of town to neighboring vicinities
on athletic tours, and sell them
| liquor:
1t is the duty OF the county board
! Of Cedar county to name successor
| to the deposed official State Agent
Fulton recommended F. c. Radkc
former member of the legislature ant
prominent attorney of Harrington
who had co-operated with the OF