Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
MILLER'S OWN STORY.
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prior to the 9th day of July, 1881, and that
he had been personally acquainted with
him for all of said time; that about half past
O'Clock in the morning on the 9th OF July,
1881, he went out with Miller TO look at q
buggy that Mr.. Miller was going to buy;
that he accompanied Mr.. Miller to the tele-
graph Office, and that they went around to
different places in the city of Pittsburg un-
til about 10 O'Clock, when they both re-
turned to the hotel When they came back
to the hotel Mr.. Miller wanted to make
some purchase. He asked if he could
change him a s., 900 bill He told him he
could not but referred him TO his partner,
Mr.. Gamble, who went with Mr.. Miller to
the Fifth National Bank; both came back
TO the hotel in a short time and said they
had had the bill changed
Afiant further says that he had CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Gamble in which NJ. Gam
BILE said that he went with Mr.. Miller to the
bank and got him (NIiller) the $1,000 bill
changed. In about one hour after they re-
turned from the bank, the cashier, Mr.. E.
A. Smith, came into the hotel and asked
afiiant if Mr.. Miller was still stopping
at the hotel Affiant replied that he was,
whereupon Mr.. Smith left the hotel
and returned in a short time afterward with
two detectives and arrested Mr.. Miller.
Afiant further saws, that after Mr.. Miller
was arrested, afiant had a conversation
with Mr.. E. A Smith, in which Mr.. Smith
said that a Mr.. Whitney had bought the
Catfish bonds and paid out four 81, 600
bills, and as Mr. Miller mad a
$1,000 bill changed they were suspicious
that he was one of the parties who sold
the bonds.
Afiant saws that during his acquaintance
with Mr. Miller he has seen him have large
sums of money in his possession, and
months prior to this he had seen Mr.. Miller
have two $500 bills in his possession.
And further this affiant saith not
JOHN G. MELLON.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me by said John G. Mellon, this 21st
day of August, 1891.
BALES NJ. CAMPBELL,
Attest: Notary Public.
JOHN P. MCTIGHE,
EDWIN o, CHRIsTY.
Moore's Sick-Bed Sworn Statement
State of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny,
City of Pittsburg, S.:
Before me, the undersigned notary pub
lie, personally appeared w. d. Moore,
ESQ.,, who, being duly sworn according to
law, SAYS as follows:
Somewhere between the 9th day of July
and the 5th of August, 1881, gentleman
came TO my house, 1913 South avenue, Allie
ghehy CITY, at abont 100 in the evening.
He said to me that he had a friend in
trouble, and wished me to appear as his
counsel He said that he himself was afraid
of arrest, and that he desired to obtain me
for counsel for himself and perhaps others
l said TO him, "Who is the friend tor whom
you wish me to appear now?' He said:
James w. Miller, who is charged with this
Catfish robbery, as they call L. The rob-
berry of old Connors," he added.
He continued, Il know him to be inno-
cent of any connection with that rob-
berry,"
/ said to him: Chow do you know it?"
He answered, 81 helped to do it myself:
that's the reason employ you to defend me
as well as Miller.
"Well, said l, that's very surprising to
me that a man would come to my house and
tell me that he was guilty of a robbery like
that, and you certainly ought to know
whether you participated in it and whether
Mr. Miller was with YOU. Whv do YOU
rake such an interest in this man 'sscase?"
Simply. he answered, 81 have been in the
peniten1iary myself, and L don't want to
see any person go innocently to that place.
We can't appear to testify, you see, we
would all be arrested ourselves We got
the money and we can't think it right to
allow him to be unjustly convicted and pun
ished." l said to him,
"Are You Dealing Honestly and Truly
with Mr.. Miller and myself" He
said: 81 certainly am. Will YOU
come out to the carriage and.
go to the Southside?" eyes, said /, 81
will"
We got into the carriage into which he
came to my house, and drove over to the
Southside. We stopped at the mouth of |
Saw Mill run at q house which was partly |
brick and partly frame, as l remember, and |
partly below the level of the street. He |
left the carriage and went into the house,
and very soon afterward returned with |
large roll of money. We drove back, and |
he handed me $500, and l promised him |
that l would start to Clarion to the Jail in |
which Mr.. Miller was confined, |
as he informed me, and inform |
Mr.. Miller of what had taken !
place, and if Mr.. Miller was satisfied !
that l should appear as his counsel would |
enter my appearance and do all in NV |
power for his defense. On the next day, if |
] remember rightly, l started to Clarion, |
saw Mr.. Miller in the Jail, stated what 1 |
have here stated, and entered upon my
duties as his counsel. When L met Mr.. |
Miller in the Jail, and after 1 had said TO |
him the cause of my coming he said to me
that he knew no such person as Mr.. Ham |
ilton, looked suspiciously, and said: 81 |
think know a man when he looks me in
the eve. Look me in the eye" Well, he |
seemed then to be satisfied 1 saw Hamil- |
ton twice after my return to Pittsburg, |
once at my house and once at my office. In |
my Office he gave me the details of the So
called Catfish robbery. He gave me the |
names Of the parties who were concerned |
with him in the robbery. He gave ME
An tbe "Details of THAR Trim i
To Mr. Connors's house that night and what |
took place in the house, of what they OBJ |
tanned, how they obtained it, and how |
they returned to the city of Pittsburg. He |
told me that they entered the house, that |
they previously masked themselves. They |
found the old lady and the old gentleman |
in the room, and said to them that |
they had come TO search for |
counterfeit money, and that they |
wanted the kew of the safe. |
The old man said they couldn't have it. |
And then we told them that we would have |
to have it, and these are the words we used: |
cor we would do some harm to them,"
whereupon the old gentleman gave us the |
key of the safe, and to prevent outcrv or
alarm, we tied them both and gagged them
both. We opened the safe and took from
the safe over $50, 600 in money and bonds |
and we told them that We had tied John and |
his family. He said we left them in that
condition. l believe that he told me that
they came back to Pittsburg that night or
the next morning. He said they negotiated |
the bonds at the Lamb saloon near the |
mouth of Virgin alley, and that Mr.. Miller /
was not present at that negotiation and had |
nothing to do with it, and so far as he knew, |
had no knowledge of it. He said the nego-
tiation was conducted by street broker |