Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-21
NILES ARRESTED.
Partner Charged
With bis Murder.
What Evidence the Police Have
a Matter of Surmise.
Miles Attends Miller's Funeral and
Is Then Locked Up.
The Latest Developments in the Carlton
Murder Case-BTrs. Miller Faints
at Her Husbands Funeral.

The sensational development in the
George Miller murder case yesterday
was the arrest OF George Miles on the
charge of murder. Miles, it will be re-
membered, was the partner of the de-
ceased, George Washington Miller, in
the Carlton saloon. Miller gave Miles a
half interest without any pecuniary con-
sideration. Miles was arrested at about
4 o'clock on complaint sworn out by
Chief Glass on the charge of murder.
Very few people knew of the arrest
Chief Glass and his aids have been
working on the case necessarily since
the morning after the murder. Quite
number of the habitues OF the Carlton
have been closeted with the detectives
hours at time, and the arrest is doubt
less the outcome of some of the informa-
tion elected.
"We cannot make public any of the
evidence we have secured until the ex-
animation takes place." said Chief Glass
to HERALD reporter last evening.
George Miles is not very we'll known
in Los Angeles. He came here from
New Mexico, and very little is known of
his antecedents. He was one of the
coolest men in the Carlton after the
awful discovery had been made, and was
very self possessed at the police station
where he was temporarily detained un-
til the officers investigated into the
matter.
The theory first published in the HER
AID that the wounds were caused by
billiard cue is probably the correct one.
DIR. Kannon first drew the attention of
the reporter to that fact, and stated
that the holes in the head
of the deceased could have been made
with billiard cue. A hard jab would
do the deadly work. A detective. upon
being told what DIR. Kannon had said,
stated that he had noticed little blood
on one of the cues.
Very few people knew that George
Miller was asleep in tie rear room, and
very few people also knew that an en-
trance could be effected through the ad-
joining room by pulling out nail in the
door. The chief of police has undoubt-
edly secured list OF the men who knew
that George Miller was asleep in the
card room. There are probably not
more than six or eight men on that list.
That it was one of these men there
can be no doubt. What the motive for
the murder was will doubtless be de-
veloped later in the day.
George Miles attended the funeral Of
his partner yesterday morning. He
claims that the deceased was one of his
best friends, and that by his death he
loses everything. ~,
Yesterday man informed a HERALD
hof 1ao az IT., aoAoxy r,rW WndnncHou
between 3 and A O'Clock in the
morning, he passed George Miller and
another man whom he did not know on
Spring street. They were evidently
quarreling over woman, and were very
boisterous in their talk. The HERALD's
informant could not remember the exact
conversation, but the men were having
it hot and heavy
Mr.. Lindenfeld, attorney for Mrs.
Miller, says that the deceased, George
Miller, had his life insured for 10000,
but he had yet to learn whether the pre-
miums had been kept paid. He also
stated that the wealth OF the deceased
had been greatly exaggerated, and that
the bulk of the property belonged to
Mrs. Miller.
THE FUNERAL. f
1t was dramatic incident at the fu-
neral of Geo. Miller, at 437 South Broad
way yesterday morning, when the
trembling widow, who had to be assisted
to the spot where the body lay, fell in
dead faint over the corpse of her MUIR
dered husband. Mrs. Miller, who has
been suffering from nervous prostration
since the murder, was too ill to follow
her husband to the grave and returned
to her bed as soor as the services at the
house were over.
The body lay in the back parlor of the
residence and large number of the
friends of the deceased crowded the hall
and front parlor when DR.. Cantine be-
gan reading the eighth and ninth verses
OF the Seventh Psalm. The floral offer
ings were handsome and numerous and
were good indication of the esteem in
which the dead man was held by his
many friends.
The services were simple. DIR. Can
tine said that he had had but slight
acquaintance with the man lying
before him, but he believed the words
of the psalm particularly applicable.
The Judgment of man was not the judg-
ment OF God. The pastor gave brief
sketch of the deceased's life, and pro-
nounced strong eulogy on his charac-
ter, closing his address by saying that
he would rather be lying cold and stiff
in his coffin as Miller was than be alive
with the guilt of the murderer on his
soul. The interment took place at
Rosedale cemetery.