Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-25
Long Chase After Persons Who
Could Prove His Innocence.
rOBTANS COVETED AFFIDAVITS
# Establish the Fact That He Was Wrong
hlly Incarcsrated---West Virginia End
O. the Story--Pittsburg Police Don't
Take Much Stock in Miller's TeS-
tmony---The Weak Points.

prrrsBUEG. August 24.-The Dispatch
morning prints an extensive article
,epard 10 ..Shoebox" Miller, who is
raeed TO Miss MOsby, a daughter Of
Mosby. II is an effort on Miller's
II To- prove his innocence of the crime
which he served a term in the peni-
tlary. Some days ago brother OF
IS Mosby shot at Count Mitkiewicz
introducing Miller to his sister, who
lnears 10 be completely infatuated
I'M Miller. The love affair no doubt
grred Miller on TO clear mis- name OF
J ipfamy that was attached 70 IL
reason of his Imprisonment
'TTbe result is so strongly in Miller's
cor that no one can read the story OF
i life and believe him guilty OF the
me for which he was sentenced. At
! hour when the robbers with mask
faces were rObbing Farmer John
ippors I'm Clarion county in 1891, made
bnous by the mysterious circumstances
.rrounding 10, Miller, the man who
fered for the crime, was fleeing from
N officers hundreds of miles away,
8le the man whom nc had accident
M shot law i'm httie room on Sheriff
teer. Cleveland, with a bullet wound
. his breast. Three months later ne
IS arrested in PittSburg for the rob
Irv and within twenty-Seven days
.Preafter was serving a sentence In the
|nitentiary of seven years.
fThe real perpetrators OF the Connors
b5erv were Hamilton, alias Archie
Dn,ague, George Foster, Yank Sulli-
N. alias Adams, and fourth person
W living I'm Pittsburg whose name IS
known. but who is believed 70 be
- ---..- --rs--- -.-.4s. .,srtU utg uL was
lde up of HarrOp, Jackson and OFT.
lmilton was killed while escaping
bm Denitentiary in a Western State.
Sster was killed in the house In which
f. ller shot Dunn. Rowland was filled
th buckShot. Adams was garroted in
ktrot by fellow criminal. KiSSen-
b to-day tolls in a mill endeavOring TO
.n bread for wife whose entreatieS
bn him from path of crime. HarrOp
fd in Texas, dragged to death by the
Plat OF q runaway horse. Another
lis In a coal mine, Stunned by his fell
rs. Another reiterates his innocence
unbelieving eaiS.
Rhen Miller was eXtradited and placed
the cell from which be had escaped,
sought TO mitigated the rigOr of
x Imprisonment by obedience to the
|mmands of his iailors. He found that
Is was not sufficient, but that he must
ldergO the SevereSt punishment. When
bed he got employment In q lumber
j nd, from which he worked his way up
the world. A year ago, having
)ne great service in the last National
|mpaign, he visited the National Capt.
where he met Miss V. Stewart
|0sby, who I'm time came TO love him.
ter on, when he related 20 the family
the woman he loved the story of his
le. and at their request started to Sc
re proofs of his innocence, they tried
blacken his character still more and
us separate him from the woman Oi
choice. Then 10 was that Miss
|osby gave to a newspaper her version
the story OF the crime of which the
u Sue loved was accused. When the
|blic press chronicled the old charges
thought he had lived down, Miller
|came discouraged. But he was en-
'0raged by friends and particularly by
letter from the woman he loved TO
ther the proofs which would estab-
Il his innocence beyond q doubt.