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. being recorded as excellent. we . . or “Oh 163rd InfantrPy returned to United States February yy 1919; c _ Srd Company, 9th Battalion, AS5Sré@ Depot Brigade, Feb 1919; honorably discharged February 27, 1919, at Comp Dodge, Tova, character There ia nothing in the record to show thet eubject & miller ° ae was awarded any decoration or cited for bravery, or that he was wounded er gasced, nor dose it appear that he participated in any battles overseas. On October #, 1918, his commanding officer, Colonel Frank Mite, Infantry Division, R. R. end ©. officer, recomended qgubjeot Miller for & caommission’as an officer, stating that, *I have imown Sergeant * Miller during the past yeer,'ani for a considerable part of that time he has been under my command. I have had opportunities to observe him ani know him to be @ young man of most excellent character and relfebliity. . He is forceful and energetic, and I believe has the material in him for — the making of an excellent officer. I am glad to recommen! Sergeant Miller, and believe that be will make good", The files also contein an affidavit of BE. D. Treadway, _. Clerk of Circuit Court, Beadle County, South Dakota, dated January 2B, 1923, which sets forth that Vernon C. Miller has been arrested, arraigned and fe etending trial on a charge of having embezzled several thousand _Gollars of public funde and money which came into his posseasiog whi ‘acting as Sheriff ‘of Beadle County; that it ts anticipated that the a defense of Miller will be that he is mentally deranged and therefore incompetent due to having been wounded and gassed while in the mili{tary service of the United States, and that he will claim to have received a eertificate of discharge showing he was gassed and wounted, and has been awarded a foreign decoration for bravery. The affidavit is acecmpanied dy @ request made by 7, C. McCloy, States Attorney for Beadle County, South Dekota, for a certified copy of the complete military record of subject Miller in order to refute the evidence to be introduceé on behalf of Miller, as det out above. There are also several letters in the file received from Senator Norbeck pf South Dakota, requesting the eam j information as that requested by Mr. McCloy, ; ie The files also reflect the address of subject Mi Llier's wife, Mrs. Mildped M. Miller, 1119 Kansas Street, Huron, South Dakota, and there ia also a form letter reflecting that on April &, 1920, a pieee of bagcage vas forwarded to subject Miller care of albert Miller, 4631 Malden Street, Chicago, Illinois. Through the cooperation of Mr. J. J. Julius of the Legal Division, Veterans Administration, agent examined the file of subject 4