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Vith reference to iiichols' stetenent ana in justice to him it is believed tact be vas not verrented in immediately opening fare on tie ear containing -iller end Eobby Loore. He hed not previously seen willer iad wuille he knew thct he hac gone down the steps and probably weuic enter Eobb; Mloorets car, he wes not-certcain thet it was tiller untii iiler opened fire. agert Notesteen, tho identified Miller, states thet in his opinion the fsilure to tcze Miller was due to the fect thet the door to cocrtuent 207 was epparently parbly open curing Miller's passiug dom the corridor ind according to informetion furnished by the police officers there wes some noise end igent iledala is revorted tu heve stated several ti:es to the men neer the door "That's ‘iiller", It wes Notesteents opinion thet the noise coming frou the door probabiy was overheerd by; i:iller even before he reached that point in the hell, thus he euickened his pace end wes running pb, the tine he turned tie hcliwe: into the foyer Leading to the stairwcy. To sum uo, it is believeé thet the plen to teke tiiller wes fer fron yerfect end the execution of the plen even xore te be criticized. Sufficient inferce-tion hrd been cptainec threugh the teleohone tap and toroug: visuel observation to incleate clearly thet the men in épartuent éi4l wes Verae aller. This was imovn throuzhout thie day of Novesber Ist. Tc entrance to 211 hac been under censtant observation for more than trenty-four hours cnc it wes knomm by all of the fgents thet there wes onl; cne mn in thit aportuent. Regardless of the question of iaentity it veuls see: to me thet errengenents shovla have been mede to intercept any peo ccuing out of thet cpertsent the moment that he emerged rather then avcdit the tine that he eppeared twelve feet opposite the Agents enc. in a position to tur: cowm the stuimay, thich was unguarded. - also, it is believed thet the nost obvicus cnd vital points vere left totclly impucrded; that is the steirvey ena the lobby ef the epartuent. The apart~ went in thieh “Aller ves is loceted on the second floor, The very netural netho¢. of any person vould be to use the stuirvay down one flight of stess rether thin avcit an elevator but in this cese it was not «1 ordinery ~arson thet they rere vetching - it ves a fugitive from justice and certeinly they; should have anticipated thet he rould use tne quickest mecns of exit from the epartnent, which, in this case, was the steirmey just one flizht fron the lobby. It is apprecicted thet it would heve been noticed a: .cents hed constantly hums cround the lobby or on the stairvey. The Manager of the epzrtuent building hed been teken into the confidence of the Agents ond it seeus thet some arrengeient could heve been made to heave an Agent ot the desk or in some capecity in the lobby teuporerily, et least, certuinly vhen the teleshone cenversction wes overkecrd incicating thet cdller would be coming out of the epartsent rithin « ver, short time gents sneulc hove covered the iobby.