Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-06
f'SHOE-BOX MILLER
lis Mosby RenOuncss Him For
Good Cause
md RETURNS his RING.
r,;.,, That Hs Has Not Shown "a Clean Bill
q, Health BY Els Alleged hIsAarg
UpdicafOu-Ths Cleveland snd Of
His Sizing Ssttlss It

" suyGroN, D. c., September s.
, .,.,s.t in the Shoe-box Miller-Mitkie-
L. episode was revived here to-day by
announcement that Miss Mosoy has
| .,se, of entirely with her fermer be-
[-,,bsd Although all the parties lm-
,,.-..5 IN the episode are absent from
|. , citv. the fact was known among the
t....rinisns here, nearly all OF whom are
e,.jrted with the Mosby family. |
e. ~ these, a young man VINO was
tr,o'nate OF Miss MOSby and was an
.,.,ote friend Of the family, when ask
3bv a correspondent tonight ABOUT |
.,,r,or consented 10 talk. Said ne;
..lfter the assault OF young MoSoy
,ba connt on account Of his behavior |
Sringing Miller and Miss Mosoy TO- |
..,bsr Miss Mosby accompanied her
f-orber 10 the family homestead, near
kr,.-soton Va, and tried 10 allay his
l,cirad feeling. She promised MIN that
Hs vould never marry Miller unless he
fro,erated himself Of the charges
AGAINST him. sue AuA AeHct ~oA
f7aak the engagement, although she
[orfesspd that she was attached 10 nun
I'D believed that he was the victim OF
,,crmstapces. She also Informed
k,.,'sr of this. and despite his entreatles
no remained firm, but in bidding nun
rori-bve she urged him to vlndlcate
..m,eIf and then the old relations could
/ .s resumed" "DO you know whether
sbo saw the reputed vindication Whleh
~. nublished in full in Fittsburg pa
80" ..Yes. know that she did, ana
fsrtin company with friend she
IU5ied il carefully, but she could hnd
I, consolation in it and so informed
Miller. s,.L
more convincing proof was then Qulety
koufed that he would not be welcome
s.tor az the MoSby mansion and was
&aouested not 10 call until he could eS-
,bIisb his innocence satisfactorily
H. engagement ring was returned TO
4 Inn and the affair is at an end. MISS
Fi,,by's Dride has been hurt owing TO
Ebs scandal. but considering the cir
'rrnstances under which she met Miller
8rl the pausibility of his manner her
'frlends think il was not at all surPT's-
sng that she should have entertained us
II ll-.--,., Tho foot that1R RhU&li, 1e
'Sas a1lc % obtain newspaper champion
ktip, is sufficient proof OF his tact and
everneSS.
CLEVELAND, o., September 5.-James
Nv. Miller. alias "ShOebOX" Miller, has
based his claim 20 innocence Of the rob-
cry of old man COnnerS NJ Clarion,
|la.. on the night OF March %, 1851, on
,le ground that he was in Cleveland on
|tdat night, and that he accidentally
sot Frank Dunn here. He says that
fie reason he did not prove an alibi at.
Clarion was that he feared prosecution
ior shooting Dunn. Detective Charles
|McHannan, OF this city, has been look
1g up the case, and he found in the
police records, under date Of January /,
l>si, the following report signed
Henry HOehn, captain of police"
AT about IL o'clock last night
y0ung man named Frank Hedrich,
boarding with Mary Johnson at room II,
Altman block, No. 1000 Sheriff street,
accidentally shot Frank Dunn, board
er in the same house, while showing him
F Self-cOcki king revolver, IS caliber. DR..
E1ck was called and dressed the wound.
Tie says IL is dangerous, II not fatal.
'Ibe ball entered the right side and re-
mlined inside. As soon as IL occurred
Helrich went out, saying he was going
ioT a doctor. He had not returned at 3
o'clock this morning. There was no
oue there who could give a description
oi Hedrick or where he worked or what
his business Is"
Captain Hoehn fled a supplementary
report on the 2d Of January, stating
ilat he had learned that the man who
'10t Dunn was not Hedrich, but Jimmy
lyan, a man we'll known by tho police.
TIE Cleveland Leader Of January l,
lsI, contained the following:
"A curious shooting affray occurred
last night in the block at No. 1000
Sheriff street, which on the face of it
appears to have been accidental, but
which some think looks rather mystic
riouS About IL o'clock party OF about
six, three men and three women, were
sitting around a table in a room playing
euchre. Conversation 1t seems turned
upon reyolvers, when one OF the party,
said 20 ba Peter Hetrick, remarked that
he owned a revolver that was in the
room on the opposite side of the hall"
The article then goes on TO say that
Hetrick went and got the revolver and
removed all Of the cartridges, as was
supposed. One Of the girls wanted to
see how it worked, and Hetrick pro-
ceeded to snap the trigger, with the
weapon pointed toward Frank Dunn.
The pistol was discharged, the bullet
striking Dunn in the left side near the
abdomen. The police did not know Het-
rick, but were told by the women that !
be was a commercial traveller from New
lork, and he disappeared after the |
Miller's efforts to clear his name have |
Established his identity as Jimmy Ryan.