Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-25

ward?" He replied: 81 could" "How
could you do it's Just as 1 could identity
the faces oftwo men; yours, for instance
and another mans whom had seem" The
reporter asked the question: Gould not
half a dozen bills look just the same to
you?" He replied: at is possible they
could"
The extracts from the same note as taken
by j: I. Moffat on the day of the trial gives
Mr. Il. A. Smiths testimony on the witness
stand, and the following is a verbatim copy
OF ms answers, as to whether he could or
| could not identify the money, which Mr..
Miller changed or which was taken from his
i person after his arrest, as any of the money
which had been paid for the bonds:
Am E. A, Smith, in business in the Fifth
| National Bank, Pittsburg; am teller; made
| check and paid it to South a few moments
| later S, COL go; they were large bills, 81 600
each. In short time Miller brought in a
| plll OF s. 200 TO get it changed: think two OF
! them. L said, laughingly, thought paid
| out that same bill a few moments ago. do
not know what reply he made: do not
South; 1 saw other bills think L saw a $500
Dill: saw the money taken from Miller; could
not recognize the money taken from him by
the detectives"
PICKING OUT WEAK POINTS.
This disposes of the statement made
yesterday by Teller Smith, of the Fifth Ma
tional Bank, at the time the bonds were
sold, but he says that several of the $1,000 bills
Tor which Miller asked change in the bank
were the same as those given to South, the
broker, in exchange for a check of George L.
W hitney, and which were given by South to
Archie Montague.
There was another statement made yester-
day, and it was claimed that it was weak
point In Mlller's story. In speaking OF his
escape from the penitentiary, he says he
escaped without hep, and managed to
change his clothes and get away without
known
proven at the time tina an ex-convict named
Ames was MilleT's confederate and became
acquainted with Miller i'll the penitentiary
and learned his plaps.' The statement was
also made that there was letter from Miller
telling Ames how to revive him in case he
lost consciousness.
The reporter has cleaned the information
from the police records, and from Rev. +.
X. Donehoo, who assisted Ames after his re-
lease from the workhouse, where he wa s
sent on plea of guilty to aiding Miller to
escape. AmeS was arrested on the night OF
Mlllers escape, in Dan Gardners saloon, on
F1fthavenuein his possession were found the
plans spoken of, and lot of burglars tools.
de was taken to the Central station, and the
true facts in the case are, that at that time,
had it been proven beyond question that
MIXERS escape from the penitentlary was
unalded and unassisted by any one, certain
of1clals connected with that institution,
would have stood in very queer light as
regards the manner in which that institu-
tion if managed.
MILLER MUST HAVE BEEN ASSISTED.
To prevent reflection on their vigilance
and watchfulness, says Mr. Miller, it was
desirable to prove that he had |
been assisted by guards on the inside, and |
convicts recently discharged. Ames was |
selected to represent the recently discharged |
convict; he denied most emphatically hav- |
ing had anything to do with Miller's escape, |
ana made the statement which certainly
looks rea asonable, do you think if assisted, |
Of ffHr for
assisting Miller to escape, this morn
ing that L Would be here this evening""
But fearing they might prefer charge of
having burglars tools in his possession, he
made no effort to secure his release from
custody, and the man from whom this infor-
nation was obtained believes that Major
Montooth was Ames' counsel at that time,
ana that, when Warden Wright visited the
jail to interview Ames, Ames told him: If
you attempt to have me sent to prison for
aiding Miller to escape, will make this
town too hot to hold YOU
The frauds which have been committed
IN that penitentiary, and of which l am
cognizant, having made extracts from the
BOOKS OF the penltentiary and conveyed
them outside the walls, and have them
safely in my possession, will be published to
the world and your reputation ruined. 1t is
a notorious fact that Ames was kept in the
jail and allowed unusual privileges, and |
long after Miller was returned from Canada,
was coaNed to make a confession and plead
guilty to the charge of aiding Miller to
ESCAPE, on promise DnaU ne WOulQ only re-
celve a sentence of 80 days to the work
house.
LOOKING FOR ANOTHER MAN.
"Afterward, when Ames was returned to
the penitentiary from Meadville, Pa, under
another name, it is well known to several
men who were prisoners in the penitentiary
that Charlie Ames made Miller's acquaint-
lnce for the first time, and begged his
pardon for connecting himself in any way
with his escape, and said, in Justification and
in explanation of his movements that morn
ing, that he was there not for the purpose of
Miller, but another man."
The additional statements made that GER
5ain police officials declared they have proof
hat Miller went direct to the Little Lamb" |
was originally planned, and where the
thieves met, and there changed his clothes
and obtained money. Mr. Miller, being
lsked last night regarding the truth of the |
statement made above, most emphatically ,
ienied both and defies any police official or
anyone else to show any letter ever found
)n Ames or any other men, such as described |
lbove, or to bring forth any good, substan-
5ial proof that he ever was in the Little |
Lamb" saloon in his life.
1t is well known to many prominent men
N the city that there were many queer
things occurred at the time of Milier's ar |
strange and unaccountabie things
which have never been satisfactorily eX- |
the reporter tried to get Miller |
which happened at the time in connection |
with his arrest; he has absolutely refused to |
10 so unless attacked by the officials who
ire the interested party.
SOME MISTAKES WERE MADE.
1t is taken as a curious commentary on the |
actions of men that John Connors, Sr., an old
nan of 81, should make an affidavit one day in
which he declared Miller was not guilty of |
'elonious assault, and could not identify him |
Is one of the men who had robbed him. and |
ca ds to many curious conjectures as to the |
means used by which he was brought to |
make an affidavit the following day, before |
he same Justice of the Peace, charging Mil
er with felonious assault, claiming that he |
lad identified him at the time of the rob- |
lery.
Warden Wright, it is said, in an interview | {
he other day informed a gentleman that |
while Miller was awaiting extradition in
Canada, about that time John Connors was
'obbed by his own nephews and that he !
made the remark that the reason he did not |
ry to have Miller indicted on the charge for !
which he was eKtTadited was that if his own |
iesh and blood could not wait for their
hare of his wealth for the little time he vet | I
lad to live. he was not going to prosecute q | ,
tranger whom he was not sure had ever
participated in robbing him.
COULDN'T BE JIMMY RYAN.
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