Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-11-19 | Page 3 | Hotel 'Siege' Enters Fourteenth Day Will Sue Management for $250,000

I I Hotel Siege Enters Fourteenth Day 9 Captain Holds Room Over Protests 00 4 t Will Sue Management for NEW YORK Nov 19 AP AP Siege Siege of the Ritz tower on OIl Park avenue today entered its fourteenth day while Captain Captain Cap Cap- tam tain A. A Graham Miles held his apartment against efforts of the mana management ement to remove him as an all obnoxious person For or two two weeks he has voluntarily confined l himself to his suite subsisting sub sub- on apples and sandwiches brought to him by friends while the manager of oC the hotel has hns canceled canceled canceled can can- all service to him ind 1111 awaited await await- ed only his hits absence from rom the tho room to lock him out permanently The liege dege was disclosed when Aaron Aaion II 11 Kaufman counsel for rOl Captain Miles announced a l damage dam jam age ago suit for would be filed Monday l Kaufman said the puit would declare that Capt Captain o Miles Miles' 17 year old old ear daughter and his physician physician physician phy phy- phy- phy were alike denied admittance to his apartment On November 5 6 my client re returned returned rl re- turned to his suite and found it locked against him Kaufman ex ex- He saw the manager who vho told him he lie was no longer longeL wanted as a tenant Whereupon Captain Miles entered the apartment next to his and pained gained entrance to his hiJ ownby own ownby by creeping alon along a window ledge I There ho Ito has remained since sineI under under Under un un- Un- Un der most annoying circumstances Hotel l authorities agreed agree with Mr Mi- Kaufman that the difficulty was not financial tho hotel offering oftering to cancel the He still outstanding of Captain Miles Miles' bill If he would vacate the premises Captain MIl Miles s his hir attorney said received a t L Monthly Month ly Income of 1750 I through h z a fund rented created for him by his former wife Mrs Clever Boldt Doldt Miles half halt of the estate of or he her father the late hate George O. O Boldt once owner of oC the Astoria Waldorf-Astoria storla hotel Responsibility for many unpleasant ant and disagreeable incidents are charged to Captain 1 Miles s h bj hI the hotel JJ Management Captain in Miles denied he ho has done anything to cause causo the hotels hotel's attitude toward him Ho He said he lie expected ted to end the siege soon to leave heave for fOl his winter home In A Aiken 11 en S. S C C. C