The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-02
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE
after Having Murdered on limo
cont Girl.
william MILLER'S AWFUL CRIME
md suicide.-nIinna Ranhauscr Died
IN Defense Of Her Honor aud Her
Murderer Tries Three Ways Of Kill.
ing Himself; Finally succeeding
with q Rovolvcr-.Tho Crime.

"H liiihselt, FINALLY Succeeding
with Rovolycr..Tho Crime.
New YoRK, Nov. Listing against a.
tree on thobrink OF tho Palisades, be.
. tween Fort Leo and Coytcsyillc, VIII
Jan Miller, tho murderer OF Alinna
Raahauscr, was found yesterday after.
noon, dead, by his own hands. Appar-
emily lie fed directly to Now Jersey,
aftor locking tho doors upon his victim
in tho little flat ut 2O7 West sixty.soy.
onth street Friday morning. Some
boys found Aliller'B body at o'clock,
while wandering along tho top OF the
Palisadc, and . milo above Fort Lee.
Miller had seated himself against one
fteo largo trees, facing the riycraud
the Scene Of his crime, and had shot
himself to death.
The wound that ended Rriller's Lie
was made by a bullet in his temple,
but it seemed that ho made Mt least two
attempts to kill himself before that
There was q cash three inches long
il his throat that had apparently boon
made but little while before no fred
the shot and q fresh stab wound IN tho
right side OF the throat, and when the
Coroner examined tho body he found
three small stab wounds over NIiI!cc's
heart that were not go new.
HOW THE GIRL WAS MURDERED.
Over these wounds in tho chest Mil
Ter had placed n folded towl, aud blood
had soaked into this and drlcd. He
had two copies OF this mornings news
papers. and from ono OF thom ho had
carefully torn out the story Of his. crime.
The story OF tho girls Htrugglo for life
has not been hatfield. It was not half
known until DR.. Conway made IN cx-
animation this morning. Tho only cuts
that had been seen were those that had
near y severed the girls head from her
body. Dr.. Conway foundn less than
eight others. There was ono in the
thigh nearthe abdomen that suggested
jack tho Ripper.
Two fnger5 OF the left hand were
nearly sevGscd, as though she had seized
the linifo blade and he had drawn it
through her hand. All the wounds
were in front ct the body, and ull werc
in front Of the body, and all were point
cd downward, indicating that they were
made while the girl was standing and
lighting of her, assailant.
JEALOUSY THAT COST TWO LIVES.
Tho theory that jealousy was the mo-
tive foritho murder is strengthened BY
Rose Ra.nhauser., She says that in the
Six years, that Miller had lived with the
family he had watched Minna con-
tinually. He haGcd to SEQ her in tho
company od any man. Which lie saw
her speak 70 ma n he would ask, her
what sho had said, and he madea prac-
tice OF reading all the letters she wrote.
Ny sister looked on him as big
brother" Rose said, Chat was all. But
he seemed to think more OF her than q
brother. She never told me he had
asked her. to marry him. | alh very
sure she would haUo refused him ii he
had. lie was so homely, and she was
go handsome. Once in q while he had
tits OF insomnia, and then he would say
he guessed he woult go crazy and he
guessed he would com nit suicide"
Rose Ranhauscr also said that Miller
read the papers to thom evenings, and
look great delight in heading stories OF
murdered women. He used to remark,
then: ooh, Nina, what should I do
il you were murderod?"
lie did not drink much md sncnt
nearly all OF his tino in the house. He
taught aLinna to play ON the piano.
Roso said she was surprised not to find
him lying dead by her sisters side.
She felt sure ho had killed himself.
THE CRIME.
The glory OF the crime is ono Of the
most pathetic in criminal history. That
the poor girl died fighting for honor
was evident.
Tho beautiful young girl, light
hearted, alniable, the darling OF her
widowed mother, was just entering
womanhood. Miller had always taken
an interest in Mimic, but it was like
that OF an elder brother. friday he
Showed the iendishncss that was in
him. There was q struggle. The girl
Tan from room to room, and moro than
once escaped from her assailant's arms.
. But Miller was not to he baked OF his
PROV, and MinnioIsacrifccd her Lie for
lcr honor.
With her throat cut from ear to car,
with blood on clothing, bedding, wall
paper, carpet and furniture in three
rooms, the victim was found Mt $3.50
O'clock, the mute witness OF A1illcr's
awful crime.
Tho murderer had escaped. Ho had
eight or nino hours start OF tho police,
and up to midnight Captain Bcfghold,
OF the West Ono Hundrcdth street sta
ton, had no trace OF him to report.
Mrs. Rosa Rauhauser is about sixty
Years old. Her husband, Daniel, died
two years ago, and, with ono son and
and two daughters, the widow went to
1.-Two in the first floor, rear Hat, at No. 2O7
West Sixty-scventh street. Sho has
had sixteen children, and most OF them
arc happily married and living in homes
oftheir own. Mimic was tho youngest
child. Six years ago, when her brother
John was q small boy, he worked in a
boilermaker's establishment. The book
keeper was William Miller. Ho and
John struck up q friendship, and as
Miller had no relatives and few friends
nothing was more natural than that no
should want to live with Johns people.
Tho arrangement was madc, and the
boardor has been looked upon as ono of
the family for six years. He is twenty
four years old now, and worked in a
piano factory at Little Twelfth street
and Eleventh avenue.