Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-20
GOiOREU EUTJISTs.

| CNrges
Green The story as Told by Green,
Miller and Mrs. Miller.
bloody row between two colorcd men
occurred shortly before six o'clock last even
ing at George Miller's house on Devault alley
between Main and Columbia streets, in the
West End. A few minutes after the affair
| occurred the report was circulated that
Green, whilOm colored pugilist, now a
waiter at the ST. James, was lying at his
hovel on Walnut alley with bullet in his
head. Three reporters hsstened TO the scene,
where they found 81. Green sitting over a
tub of water with the blood streaming all
over his ia:e and shoulders and DR.. Welsh
bathing an ugly kash three inches long on
the right side Of his head near the top. At
first be did not seem inclined to tell wha, was
| the matter, but when he saw il must come
out any how he told his story btokoDly, sut-
feriDg all the while from the wound in his
head. He said that early in the afternoon
Mrs. Miller, colored, had sent for him to come
| and see her as her little boy was sick and she
was slone. Tie had gone down and she had
gargling oil for the child. On his return he
was sitting with Mrs. Miller and her child ia
! the yard back OF the house, with new pair
OF shoes which he had just removed TO ease
his corns, at his side. Suddenly Geo. Miller,
Mrs. Miler's husband, whom every one SUI
posed to be in Columbus, had slipped up be-
hind him and shot him in the head He
| said he started and ran little piece and then
| walked home, while Miller walked on into
| the house. Green admitted that he had had
trouble with Miller before on account of Mil
ler's wife.
Emma Walden. the woman who lives with
| Green, said that Miller had come to Green's
house while she was there alone a few min
utes before the tray, but seeing that Green
was not at home had simply greeted her and
passed on.
The gang of reporters next went down to
interview Miller and his wife. They found
them at their house acting as though MOTH
ing had happened. Miller SAID that he had
| frequently before found Green with his wife
and suspected them of criminal inh-
macy. lie had told him time and agaiL
that he "did'ut want him ioollng about his
wife, and had had a fight with him about
the matter year ago last spring when he
foand him in the house with his wife. For
the past three months he said he had been
employed as farm hand on Sells's
farm just above Columbus. A few
days ago Emma Walden, Green's
eDmpanion, had written to him saying that
Green was making his home with Mrs Miller
regularly. She had entrusted the letter to
Henry Lynn to deliver to Miller. Lynn had
lost the letter but had met Miller in Coiun-
bus on Saturday night last and told him the
tenor OF its contents. Miller took the first
train over, which arrived here at O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. He says tha, he went
70 his house and found Green sitting there
with his wife; that when Green saw him he
arose to get away. but he (Miller) whipped
out a penknite AMI slashed him across the
hard; that Green had run out o. the house
and down the alley and he had thrown the
knits after him as he ran. When asked why
it was that he did not skip before he was
| arrested he replied, "lf the officers come
| cant help it, but | think had
a right to hurt any man tina, WAS tooling
with my wife"
During the talk with Miller his loving
spouse frequently interjected contradiction
or sentence shielding Green bu, admitted
that he was II very intimate friend She cor
roborated Green's story about her searching
for him and the illness OF the child bu, said
that the cash on his head was knife and
not pistol wound. About the earlier trouble
between him and her husband she said but
little, except to say that Millers JEALOUS sus.
pcions had no foundation. She further
stated that she had been married to Miller
five years, and that he had been in the habit
| OF leaving her to SHIFT for herself three or
four months OF every year. While away
| at these times he would sometimes write to
her. but never sent any money. Ga return
ing homo he would assert that he had sent
her money at various times during hia absence
in amounts varying from IS to $40.
Shortly after seven o'clock in the evening
Officers Mast and Woods went down and ar
rested Miller, whom they found just coming
out OF Devault alley onto Main street. As
Green was lying in bed with his head ban
daged up they did not arrest him. Miller's
story tina, it WAS done with a knife is probably
true, as nobody in the vicinity heard pistol
ahot