The record-union., 1891-12-09
AN ALLEGED HIGHWAYMAN.
The Son of the Poet of the Sierras
as Stage Robber.
Young Harry Miller, the Son OF Joaquin
and Minnie Myrtle Miller, in
Peck of Trouble.

tSheriff Standley of Mendocino County,
who arrived in San Francisco on Monday
night from Ukfah, stated that he now had
In jail in Ukiah a man who, in all proba-
bility, will in a day or two be turned
over to the United States authorities for
trial. This man is Harry Miller, % years
OF age, son of Joaquin Miller, the
Poet of the Sierras."
( On the morning Of November 18th
last, at s O'Clock, nineteen miles north of
Ukiah, while Charles Lambert, the
driver of the Ukiah and Eureka stage,
was slowly making his way up the grade
on his way to Ukiah, he was suddenly
confronted by masked man carrying
Ballard rifle. Lambert was ordered to
throw out his express box and mail bags,
and after gazing into the barrel of the
rife he quickly did so. When ordered to
drive on he did so very quickly, and
having fresh horses and an empty stage
he arrived at Ukiah far ahead of his
schedule time and Immediately notified
the Sheriff. Lambert described the
highwayman as being tall and youthful
looking, and wearing blue calico mask,
drab ulster and heavy stogy boots.
Sheriff Standley learned that the farm
house of John Roop, a mile north of Will
let's, had been broken into and robbed on
November 18th, two days before the stage
had been stopped, and that Ballard rifle,
blue calico dress, a drab-colored duster,
a butcher knife and one or two other
things had been stolen. He also discov-
cred that an athletic young fellow, with a
smooth face and demi-blonde hair had
been hanging around there for some days
prior to the robbery.
There the trail of the man was taken
up, and the Sheriff, after tracking him
from one lumber camp to another and
through the vast lumber forests of Men
docino county, learned that young man
named Joe Mckay, who answered to the
description of the man whose trail he
was travelling. had worked three weeks
cutting wood for Henry Willard in the
outskirts of the town of Hopland, and
that he left on Wednesday evening, No
vember llth-four days before the stage
robbery, which took place on Sunday,
the l5th-and returned to Hopland again
| Thursday, the Goth, nine days after he
had relinquished his job.
All trace of him was then lost, but
Standley visited the wood-pile where Nc
Kay had worked, and there found an i'm
portant link in the chain.
letter was in an envelope, and while
on the outside 1t bore the name and ad-
dress, Joseph Mckay, Hopland, Cal, ;"
on the inside it was address, Dear
brOtner," ana signed, y our brother,
George 3. Miller" 1t was dated from
The Hermitage, Oakland Heights" the
home of Joaquin Miller. Sheriff Stand
ley then visited the home of the poet in
Alameda County. Joaquin Miller was
not in, but George B. Miller an elder son,
was found.
Back in the direction of the robbery
went the Sheriff, and finally learned that
the man he wanted had been in Clover
| dale, and had struck out in the direction
OF Santa Rosa. So the Sheriff took the
train to Santa Rosa, and walking into
| Burns Hotel saw the fugitive sitting in
chair reading paper, and placed him
under arrest.
Henry Miller is the son of Joaquin Mil
! Ter by his first wife, minnie Myrtle"
who died in New York a few years ago,
He says he has had no schooling. About
four years ago, after some dispute at
home: he mounted the poets horse and
road away, never to return. He then
went TO Oregon, and at Portland was ar
| rested for house breaking and sent to the
State Prison ut Salem for two years.
After serving five months he managed to
escape, and assuming the name of Nc
Kay, came back to California.