The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-18

who requested that his remains
should be forwarded.
And now we are forced to record
the fact that SO far Stephen Miller,
the murderer of young Tracy, has
not been arrested. The editor of
this paper. and writer hereof, was
an eyewitness of the whole of this
affair that occurred on the streets,
and has narrated it as be, himself,
saw it, with the additional evidence
of what occurred in the saloon,
which was brought out before the
Coroneris Jury and we have fur
Their to narrate the fact, that while
there were fifty men on the spot
three minutes after the commission
of the murder, yet 1t was ten or ff-
teen minutes thereafter before an
effort was made to arrest Miller,
and when il was attempted, resist-
anes was made IN such a threaten
ing manner by Miller, who was still
armed, that certain parties inter-
fered and caused those who were
attempting the arrest, one of whom
had hold of the murderer, to desist
from further endeavors in that way
until an officer could be found. The
writer hereof seeing this state of af.
fairs, he went with all the speed be
could for Sheriff Havener, but found
he was not at home, and seeing Jas.
Watkins, Esq, on the street, told
him of the condition of affairs, and
who Immediately repaired to the
scene of action, just in time to find
that Miller had either fed or been
hidden away by some of his friends.
Squire Watkins was on the spot
within at leasts five minutes after
the writer started for an officer
Efforts were, IN the course of an
hour or two, made TO capture the
murderer, such, for instance, as
sending out men to scour the coun-
try for him ; but the most probable
places of his secretion, certain To-
calitles of McConnelsyille, were left
unsearched and unguarded. The
mex. morning, it was gwen out by
word of mouth around town, that
Joshua Davis, one of the Commits
sioners of the County, had pledged
the faith Of the County to reward
the captor Of Miller with the enor-
m0us sum of 500 and, we suppose,
that against Miller has time to get
as far away as the State of Texas,
that 1t will be proclaimed by post
ers and newspaper advertisements
chat the County will give 81 COO for
his arrest. Although we have q
telegraph line here, and although 1t
was possible for Miller to make tho
State of West Virginia in ten or
twelve hours, or several railroad
points in less time, yet it seems that
the expense of telegraphing is SO
great that those in authority could
not think of spending the peoples
money IN using the WIRE to give in
formation to the authorities else
where that a murderer was at
large. At least they did not do SO
on Tuesday evening, and we dc not
know that they have done SO since,
but it is barely possible that they
did after it was too late to do any
good, if Miller left cConnclsville
on Tuesday evening. Economy in
the management of the finances of
The people Is a very good thing, but
it strikes us that in matters jeoper-
the lives of our citizens, that
q little more liberalIty in the draw
ing of the public purse strings
would be commendable. The peo>
pie of Morgan had better pay liber-
for the arrest of criminals,
than to allow them to 60, thereby
license to men to commit
crimes within her borders. Such
government Is no better than ansr-
chy, the worst form that can posi-.
bly, exist.
But now that Miller is still al
and possibly may never be
arrested, the question may well be
sis there any one else re-
sponsiblc for this crime ?" The an
must be eyes !" to this ques-
ton. Community, and every ra-
tlonal man and woman of which it
is composed, must bear the burden
Of it, Is responsible for it. Stephen
Miller's saloon has been notorious
as an infamous. law-defying place /;
every man and woman IN our town
knows its reputation all have
known for months, too, that he has
been In the habit of shooting at in
whenever his anger has
been excited. Still, notwithstand-
ing tins ; and notwithstanding the
place could have been declared a
nuisance at any time, and closed
up; yet community, officers of the
sworn to take cognizauce OF
such matters, and to institute such
measures as would abate them, all
have quietly allowed the place to be