Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-10-01
LINGO STILL HELD
The Suspected Murderer's
Statements COntradicted.
WHAT THE PROSECUTOR SAYS.
The Only Evidence the State Has 10
Against the Negro. -

Not the Slightest Suspicion Entertained
Against Chalkley Leconey-Ths Muir
dered woman's Husband Indignant
over q Report that the Crime Was Conn
mitted by a Member of His Family.
CAMDEN, N. j., Oct. 1.-Prosecutor
Jenkins states that the only evidence
which the State thus far had as to the
murderer of Mrs. Miller was that
against Lingo. He admitted that that
which he had was not very strong, but
he felt justified in still holding the
man. The report circulated connecting
'Chalklsy Leconey's name with this
crime Mr.. Jenkins declared to be an
outrage, and added that he had not the
slightest suspicion that he had any
connection with the case.
The Evidence Against Lingo.
The principal evidence against the
colored man is the contradictions made
of his own statements. In the first
place, the half sleeve of his shirt which
is in the prosecutors possession, and
which Lingo had admitted to be his, he
says he tore off his shirt and threw it
into a cornheld on his way to Miller's
farm that morning. The cornfisld is
near the woods in which Mrs. Miller's
body was found, and 800 yards from a
bush on which County Physician lizard
says the sleeve was found.
The Negroes statement next is to the
effect that he went TO his home, ate
his dinner and set out for Tom Young's'
farm. All this could happen and he
still leave his home by about quarter
or ten minutes of three. But here his
wife contradicts him and says he told
her he was going to Miller's to work.
These places lie in two opposite direc-
ti0ns from each other, and in going TO
Miller's he would have turned to the
left and to go to Young's he would
have taken the right. In going to
Millsr's he would have gone past or
Du Hallway children say they saw him
60 in the woods. His arrival at Young's
after four. o'clock, with two cuts or
scratches on his hand he explained by
saying that one was made by butcher
knife in the hands of his child at the
dinner table, and the other by stalk
knife, is fatty contradicted by the
physicians, who say that one at least,
on the back of his hand, was a finger
nail scratch. The negro, it is said, has
also stated that he had 3 conversation
with one or two men in Msrchantville
about o'clock, and one at least of
them says he does not know Lingo and
is positive he never saw him.
Mr.. Miller Indignant.
Mr.. Miller, husband of the murder ed
woman, was seen at the homestead in
reference to a report that suspicion
had attached itself now to one of the
members of the Miller family. Mr..
Miller seemed indignant over it and
said: "None of the family ever had .
GROSS word with poor, dear Annie, and
not one of them ever laid a straw in
her way, and not one of them ever had
q CROSS or angry word with her in any
shape, and as for us, We never had q
GROSS word between us, and all our fu-
ture looked bright and cheerful"
Coroner Stanton was asked when the
inquest would be held. He said that
no time had been fixed. 1t will proba-
bly,, however, not be for some time,
and he said that three days notice of
4 would be given to the newspapers
1t was not thought best to hold the in
quest until the case had been tn CROUCH
| " sifted.