The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-07
MARsHAL MlLIsR's MURDER.
Bradley Held for Illicit Dlstilling. but wit.
Et na.a.a n .fnaa IN 1,estIfv

Bradley Held Tor Illicit Di4ttIing, but Wiz
neasos Refuse to Testify.
GAlLAT1s, Tenn, August 6.-John n
Bradley, the alleged assassin Of United
States Deputy, Marshal w. Lee Miller
Bate Bradley, Allen Brown and Henry
Moore, charged with having been Bradley'i
aecomplices, and forty witnesses for the
prosecution, came from in Big Woods,
Twelfth District, ,Sumner rcounty, orprelim.
mary examination before us. Commits.
sioner Gregory. Alarge number Of Brad.
ley's friends, who were said to be armed
TO the teeth, were also present y. 8.
District Attorney Ernest Pillow, his as
sistant Joseph Z. Dillin, and U. s. Mar
shal TillmAn and his assistants, also ap-
peared In the Court House at 10 A. NJ, at
which time the trial was called.
Bradley waived examination on the
charge OF Illicit distilling, aud was bound
over TO the October tsf6i q the U, s. Cir
cult Court In the sum 81, 900.
As all four were charged with resisting
officers, court was adjourned, at the suS-
gestion Of the District Attorney, TO consult
with witnesses for the Government until
2 P. NJ, at which time he asked their dis
charge on the accusation made and 1t was
granted.
A correspondent asked Federal Off
Gers why this was done, when he was told
that witnesses flickefed on account OF fear
OF Bradley and his gang; that when ex-
amined they would not stick to. the same
story.
Some remarked that Bradley was q curl
ous sort OF fellow, dangerous, and as they
lived in his neighborhood, they prayed
that they might not be pressed too closely.
It was evident that they knew something
concerning Miller's fate, but dared not
tell 1t.
From personsac acquainted with Bradley's
neighborhood It was Cleaned that he was
the grand cyclops of Big Woods, and
ruled 1t as with q rod ofiron.
Il was understood that II Bradley failed
to give bond, he would not be taken to
Nashville alive, and that there would
have been general street fight between
Bradley and friends and the U. s. Mar.
shals, all Of whom were well provided
With side arms.
Bradley is six feet in height, has bold,
calm expression, had little to say, and
when he smiled at all 1t was cold and sar-
castle. His own neighbors say he domi-
neered over everybody. Defendants claim
ed that II the trial was pursued they would
prove by witnesses from Franklin, KY,
that Miller was seen in Louisville week
ago that his father left his family Of wife
and four children one year, returned and
left again for two years, and alter that he
had not been heard Of for sixteen years,
but was now supposed to be living at
Evansville, Ind. II Is, however, the uni
yersal belief Miller was killed, and that
circumstantial evidence strongly points to
Bradley as his assassin, as Miller was
traced towithin short distance OF his
house, when shots were heard.
The whole mstter will be thoroughly
sifted by the q. s. Circuit grand jury, at
which time, it Is Thought, witnesses can
not be bulldozed, and that they will solve
the mystery.
Bradley was jailed for want Of bail for
Illicit distilling several years ago, but
escaped trial by witness running away.
Five illicit distilleries were broken up in
his neighborhood by q. S. Deputy Mar
shal Phillips and posse in April, when the
proprietors proclaimed they had raised
the black flag against all revenue officers,
who would be slain on sight.