Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
THE SPHYNX SPEAKS.
James W. Miller Allows Himself To
Be Interviewed at Last.
HE TALKS SOME IN AN OHIO CITY,
Declaring That the Last Link of all In q
Long Chain Is Forged,
THAT WILL PROVE HE Is INNOCENT

James W. Miller permitted himself to be
interviewed at Akron, O., yesterday. He
declared that every link in the chain of evil
dence necessary to prove his innocence has
been forged. His proofs are so conclusive,
he says, that all will have to acknowledge
his innocence. Within short time he will
be able to make the whole matter public,
and when this is done THE DISPATCH
will be in position to give the
public full and authentic account of his
vindication. While gathering the proofs
Of his innocence he has been accompanied
by two well-known Pittsburgers, who will
attest to the truth of all the facts that have
been CLEANED. Both Mr. Miller and those who
have seen the testimony are positive that
Miller is innocent.
SOME TRAITS OF THE MAN
Among few of the things brought out
in connection with this story illustrating
the indomitable character of Miller, it is
claimed, will be the history of how he took
Pension Commissioner Raum's Refrgerat-
ing Company, when on its last legs, and
placed 100000 in the treasury. It will
also tell how he took Mitkiewiecz, when that
nobleman was ostracised of every one and
dubbed a confidence man and swindler,
and put his Chinese plans in shape. He
got capitalists in New York to furnish
backing to the amount of S10,OOO,-
900 to secure concessions in China.
He has papers in his posses
sion, he says, to prove that in 1888 the work
he did in the States of Michigan Ohio aud
Indiana made General Harrison President
of the United States.
CAUSES OF MILLER's SILENCE.
The reticence of Miller, his friends de-
clare, and the fact that he was charged with
crime, have not only kept him silent, but
furnished the fulcrum which enabled these
men who profted by his ability and brain
power to throw him over when the work
was done, without the stipend which was
his due. Yet, confident in himself,
he pursued the even tenor of his
way, believing that the future would bring
him Reorganization Of the power he felt him
self the conscious possessor of.
A woman's love and a womans faith
formed the Incentive which ledt his man to
face the terrible ordeal through which he
must pass to prove his innocence. When
the real life romance is published in the
columns of THE DISPATCH, the gentlemen
who are with him say it will be with COM
mingled feelings of pity and admiration that
the public will regard the heroic struggle
which Miller has made.
Miller says that he followed the chain of
evidence through four States, and that 1t
has been proved that the story which he
had related and reiterated time after time
since his arrest, often to callous and unbe-
lieving ears, is, beyond any question of
doubt, true in every particular. Every bit
of the story is covered by afidavits that
overlap and weld into each other so closely
that there is not the slightest loop-hole on
which any one can raise a question of
doubt.
WHAT THE PROOFS ARE.
deposition of nearly all of the actors in this
wonderful drama They are from people
from all walks and classes of life, including
men who have stood in the halls of Con-
gress, prominent police officials and others
whose names are well known, both in the
business world and at the bar, everyone
Of them seemed to know Miller, and yet
around him clustered a dozen of mythical
personages, which, when traced down, all
proved to be totally different persons. Ex-
CARNATIONS were heard at different times
from different persons ooh! Yes, that's
Rice, Thornton, Ryar, Edwards" etc, yet
III no case Wnen asked TO identify MIN with
any of the above personages was it found
possible to do so.
The facts CLEANED by Miller, he declares,
prove it to be an utter impossibility for him
to have been present in Clarion county at
The robbery of John Corners, ST., or to have
sold the bonds to that receiver of stolen !
Nelson. On both those momen-
5uous occasions, Miller will prove, he saws,
beyond the question of a doubt, where he |
was every moment of the time.