The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-22
A BOY MURDERER HUNG
Kansas Charlie Dies on the GaIIows
in Wyoming.
HE KILLED TWO MEN IN A CAR
And Then Told all About it for tho Glory
OF tho Decd-He II Not Yet 17-His
Mother Was Consumptive and His
Father o Suicide.

CHEYENNE. Wyo., April 22-Charlit
Miller, the boy who killed two men in a
box car last September and perhaps
would have escaped detection had he not
boasted of his crime, was hanged here to-
day. He did not show any signs of con-
| triton for his crime and talked about his
approaching execution as if it were mat
ter of no moment
Miller was between 16 and H. Hew
born in Virginia. and lived there with his
parents until he was 5 years old, his
mother about that time dying of con.
sumption and his father commi ttinR
suicide by taking Paris green. after a
worthless, drunken life. Charlie had a
brother and sister older than himsel (,
and younger brother. All of the chill
dren were sent to an orphan asylum in
New York State. There young Miller re-
manned until he was IL years old then he
ran away.
He worked his way West aud finally
landed ia Minnesota, where he worked
for farmer for a year or SO. He ran
away couple of times and finally went
to Kansas where he got work in priut-
ing Office During all this time he read
wild West literature and he adopted the
name OF Kansas Charlie"
For year or two he beat to and fro be-
tween East and West, and finally last
autumn at Sidney, Neb, he met Ross
Fishbaugh and Waldo Emerson, young
men from st. Joseph, Mo-, who had left
home to go to Denver. Miller soon dis
covered that they had money. On the
box car at Pine Bluff, Neb. Fishbaugh
and Emerson were in the car
just as dawn was breaking Miller OBJ
served that his companions were asleep
and remembered that they had money
and that he had reputation to earn for
Emerson was dead and Fishbaugh diving.
From their persons Miller secured some
thing over $50 and few articles of small
value az
His tracks were so well covered that
nobody would have suspected him. but
his escape from all suspicion was not to
his taste at all, and he made clean breast
of the whole thing, first to his brother and
subsequently to the officers
When Miller was brought to trial IL was
evident that there was no hope for him.
dozen confessions and considerable cor
roborating testimony were offered i'm evil
dence AGAINST him. 1t was attempted
to set up the defence of insanity, but
experts testified that the boy was
OF more. than ordinary intelligence 1t is
probable that Miller himself enjoyed the
trial more than any one else.
lie TOOK the stand and in the presence of
the parents Of one of his victims told,
without the slightest evidence of rem orse.
the whole story of the killing He offered
no excuse except hunger. and it was clearly
shown that he was not hungry at the time
The jury promptly returned verdict of
guilty, and Miller was sentenced to be
hanged. The boy showed no evidence
whatever Of fear or remorse, either when
the verdict was rendered or when he
was sentenced
An attempt was made on account of his
youth to get the Governor to change his
punishment to imprisonment for life, but
the Governor declared that no one was
safe as long as Miller lived. During lis
confinement he has been the Ii fe of the
prison.