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Show persoxatFxg ax officer. A Hin All'Sedto Hate rrctrndrd lo be Hfpnty Jfarshal Bush. Tills fort-noon the examination of Frank A. Miller, ou a charge of personating an officer, come up before be-fore Commissioner Greenman. Tie essential rartof tho complalut is ss follows: ruk,S- Miller, e the CoaatJ ef ll LaU. on the loth aJ ' Srfttnber, 1150. 41 wurallr, faUelr. rriadalenUr sI an Uwftttry, Trim latt to dcelTe, frlrMea d coiBeI tUUie WUKia, a rtsWeat sail cncrol tftrlxn tome, to wll o aooeh Templs Suxtt, la tstmit to a scares of tit I tranve and premises, br cUImisr Uut be wai.Jeepb R. Bsh,a Vailed States OSIcer Tlie premises referred to in the complaint are understood to be a bouse of d restitution. City Marshal John M. Young testified that a complaint had been nvwle at police headquarters that defendant had been personating an Oeticer, end tliat, when the variant for !ihnrre-t was read he admitted that tho charge was partly true. Defendant, when arrested, wore the badge of a reputable private de-t-ctlvc agency. Hattle Wflsm, roprletres of the establishment rrferrcdto in the complaint, testified that tlie Cc-ieutlant,on Cc-ieutlant,on or about July 20, came' b the place, representing himself as I Jrw Bush, a United states deputy marshal, and sraiclied tLe premlMS fbr a man whom he represented he ,wasafUu- Several I urns Irs of Mrs. Wilson' place corroborated bertew-thnouy, bertew-thnouy, and one of tbern stated that defendant said to her that he was afterA "hold up?' for whom a reward re-ward bad been oflcrrd, and if she would help him catch the fugitive, be would give her half the reward. ThU witness took defendant through thcdltlVrKat rooms, Lut.hc did-iayt f find tlie person ho wanted. At noon a recess till " p-iii. was taken. After the noon recess, Marshal Young was recalled by the defense and testified that -the jcllce bad frenuently arrested men who claimed to be Joe Buvh, or who gave that name; several such Instances In-stances had lstily occurred. Tlie Invftigatlon was In progress w-fien we went to press. |