The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-07-15
NO DOUBT OF HIS GUILT
BardwelI Citizens Positive Miller
Was the Right Man.
Prominent Men Of the Town Sign State.
msnt Declaring the Negro Lynched
and cremated Was the Muir.
derer Of the Ray Girls.

BARpwELL, KY, July 13.--An ad.
dress to the people of the country iusti.
flying the lynching of Seay j. Mile,
has been issued by well known citizens.
1t begins by saying that there is nc
foundation for the report that he was
innocent and by asserting that he did
undoubtedly commit the horrible,
crime attributed to him. 1t is signed
by j. w. Roy. lawyer; j. E. Bridge
water. lawyer; j. W. Turk, merchant,
j. b. Hutson, sheriff, and j. w. Mars,
his deputy; L. c. Ray and w. B. Richs
ardson. ess
They say in substance that they were
Mt the scene of the murder at 9:30
o'clock and that they had no difficulty
in tracking the murderer therefroln.
The tracks led in the direction
of Mayfeld creek and crossed it..
Here the murderer stopped to
wash his hands. He was easily tracked
across the field to a ferry, where Cor.
don, the fisherman, set him across the
river on the evening OF July S. After
crossing the river the same tracks were
discovered. They were carefully meas
ured repeatedly, SO that n mistake was
next to impossible. A bloodhound was
secured and he followed the tracks
down the river about mile, where il
was learned negro man had inquired
the way to Birds Point. At Birds
Point it was learned that negro had
been discovered in box car of the
freight train that left there on the
morning of July.o.
AS he answered the description of the
negro wanted by the Kentucky author
tiles, the town marshal of Sikeston
was telegraphed to and there the negro
was captured after desperate struggle
On his person were found knife, d
razor, a pocketbook, five gold rings
and (the address says) unmistalsa Bile
signs of blood were on his clothing.
His shoes were removed and measure
ments taken, which corresponded
exactly with the tracks leading from
the scene of the murder. The blood.
hound which had followed the tracks
paid no attention to anyone else but
the prisoner, showing clearly he was
the one he had been trailing. The
prisoner was taken to- Wycliffe, where
he was identified by Gordon, the fisher.
man who set him across the river
Mr.. Ray, father of the girls, found on
the knife number of long hairs which,
when collected, he recognized us hav-
ing been torn from his youngest daugh.
ters head.
evidence" of blood was also found
on the knife by Mr.. Ray. Five rings
stolen at Clinton, Ky, on the night of
July 2 We're found on the prisoner and
identified, none of them, however, as
belonging to Miss Ray, as formerly re-
ported.
The prisoner continued to insist that
he never had been in Kentucky or
Birds Point. He subsequently ac.
knowledged leaving the latter place on
the morning of July 6.
When asked where he spent July s,
he said he was on his way from Jones'
boro to Maiden and met nobody he
knew.
While in Jail at this place Miller was
identified by Mrs Copeland as a negro
who bad passed her house, which is di-
rectly on the road between the Ray
farm and Mayfield creek, on the morn
ing of the murder.
Everybody here joins in the opinion
that the right man was executed.