The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-23
MADE A SONG TO DIE WITH.
.,.p or sETENTEEN's> cool PREPA-
RiIION FOR THE SCAFFOLD.

-~..,.s Miner Hanged Mt Cheyenne TOR
Ss.o Murders Done when He Was Only
Invented 20 Becone Dine Novel Hero
cu,rr>sy. April 22.-6harles Miller. the boy
-u,,o,cr, was hanged few minutes after o
a,,,ocl this morning. He showed no anxiety
.sau, his future. He sang song on the scat
aid which he had himself composed.
Charles Miller. or Miller was born In this
.ty on A. Ri 81, 1876. and consequently would
s.ve boon II years old next Tuesday. His
,.tber was n German, who worked at brass
,o,lshiur until his vito died in 1870. leaving
Kim with four small children. The baby.
william. was placed in the Protestant Half
ornban Asylum. and the rest OF tho children
Mr. Mailer kept with him at $40 West Thirty
seventh street. where he had urchased lager
haor saloon with the 81. 0OO he had received on
snoicy Of insurance on his wife's life. Early
IN January. 1880. MNller committed suicide BY
taking Paris Green.
George Hole, who runs n barber shop and to-
hoccc store at $50 West Thirty seventh street.
And whose wife is step sister Of the late Mrs.
Mollcr. lccame administrator OF Mnller's
estate and cnardIan of bis children, who o, we're
S Cher he wns - yo IN oa time
was placed, through tho a, agency Of the Chill.
s eSs A Sosai nS with agent ss % hs
th s boy was doing we'll. had an excellent home.
AZ a w'r7 in a the same year Miss j. T. Sherman
olthe orphan asylum received letter r, from n,
Charles S9m bpn ri sss to ne be was
Fra aiH Raa been placed with p Loeiboarrow.
Eho hsd bCen at Tho ORPHAN
Xsyl UNI since the death Of his mother Joined
a apS M VII bb began to learn tho printers tra1e
Mr.. Hoz. III. tobacconist. was surprised in
s SsG mai hs G6s Ssca tho sak
ciety offices and reported himself all right.
ned pocket money Young miller did net 60
fnt KIN et tho
lis his contession Of having murdered Fishbaugh
and Emerson. Waldo Emerson and Ross T.
On The Union faciiic Rairoad. forty miles east
Of Cheyenne. in September, 1880 They we're
sR S SS 9cs rides
were r murdered for the money they had. Muller
tho murder aurd He was found in small town In
NJ, H9iz Who lives at Rldgsasld Park. n. J.;
Fla father small estate in his defence in the
trial for murder. sending it to +. Tagyart tho
boys counsel Tho latter part OF last month
he received letter from the doomed lad re-
Qucsting him to send him little money SO he
oners before the hansman did his work: In
this letter no said that everybody seemed to
have gone back IN him. that his brothers had
written that they wanted nothing to do with
him. and the only friends ne seemed to have
were the prisoners in the inil The boy sug-
gested that II there was ANYTHING Que him.
Mr.. Holz might take from it the So which he
advanced him on the occasion OF his visit In
the summer Of 1890.
Mr.. Holz went over his accounts and found
that there was still due to Mailer about SlS.
and this he telcgraphcd him on Thursday
night so that 1t would reach the boy before he
died
Young Muller is said to have been victim
Of fash literature. and wanted to 60 down In
history as the hero Of a dime novel: The
identity Of the murderer Of Fishbnugh and
Emerson, was q mystery until Muller made
had done the deed.
Muller made two desperate attempts at es-
cape from tho Cheyenne jail: Each time he
got away. but was recaptured. compa MON
In one Of those attempts was frozen to death.
and Muller had his toes badly frozen.