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—_ ~4- delay in firing. However, Sgt. Kennster fired o burst of 18 shots, 7 of wiich took effect in the auburn sutomobile. Officer Frenk Fremuth advised that when he received inform- ation to the effect thet ifiller had been identified, he proceeded imiediately from Apartment 207, going dow two flights of narrow Stairs, and saw a man at the desk who appeared from the rear to resemble iller; that he questioned the man for 4 moment, after which he sroceeded to Galt’ Street, noting that Miller was getting into his car. He fired three shots, one of which took effect in the rear of the car; that he and Set. Keapster ran down ths street in nursuit of the car as it was impossible to obtain access t> an automobile. iller was not apvrehended in the corridor, on the steirs, or in the lobby of the Sherona Apartments, because the identification wes not made positively until he was alnost opposite the stcirs, beceuse he was not oursued imedi-tely from the apartment to the steirs, an” thence through the lobby, end it is also believed thet rAiller would have been aporehanded had an automobile been held in realiness for pursuit, as the auburn in which -liller was riding wes abandoned sols -few blocks away, due to a puncture in one of the rear tires, caused by a machine gun bullet, It is also believed that had -cents Leckerman and Hice been advised previsusly, chat tne mean suspected as ifiller would soon be leaving the apartment, they would have been able to apprehend him. It is be:ievel that hed agent Nichols fired on Miller, without giving hiia chances to stop, and give up, that filler would heve beam apprehended, Vivian Mathews is now being held incomminicado in the Chicaro Palice Department, and thus far questioning hes feiled to elicit any information of value whatever from her. She refuses to identify Miller in uny wey, or to furnish any information regarding her activities with hia. The United Stutes Attorney here has esreed to present the facts to the urand Jury in Chicago on Monduy, November 6, 1953, for the yar-ose of obtaining an indictient against Vivien iiathews, charcing her. with herboring « fugitive.