The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-21

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bs4e gSoG-hy@ a. MrA Coleman. we're
soon lest 70 sight bealss6 Mercer islazd
sa9 wsre reyer seen awe again- ! cor
nee.ea ihe saa1r S3,h Fly dream. but Eng
lusba1d did nos Persistent search far
tie missing men WAS xeYs up. bat only
white boat that had sesa 1rive- II The
wind Vas found. 0ss sansay, three
WEEKS after fay dreans. I persuaded Eay
hssaand 20 search far TIE bodies. | mink
u Hiram Tsvfer weEt w9sh siEas They
~snt according 70 ny dream. ssss did nos
End the place. Tie aex: dag fny husband
wsnt With some men from Ee8.oa. bat ]
do not remember their naEnes. They
r0sed OF; around sae southern point Of
Mercer island and lad proceeded oaly
short distance along TIE shore when nay
husband recognix~4 tie $50. I hal de-
seri5~f. The tree ass there and On the
shore they discovered tie coats an1 hats
and faismztehs4 cars. In tie water less
than thirty feet sway we're foGnd the
bodies 81 Coleman and Pss.sn, sao had
been murderer, their ~oun1s saosed. "
The bodies we're brouga; 20 the ctr and
taken - o. G. sacTey's undertaking
ro0sns where the wounds we're examins4
IL s&s found that Coleman had TO ballet
wounds az hss head, che through the se.t
temple and the other On the top Of the
head Pstfsn Vas shot through tue leg
and again ,aroagh the body. hiss splne be
ing severed. IL "a. learned that Miller,
who had been arrested q short time after
Coleman and Pa;ten disappeared and sub
sepusntiy discharged for lack Of evidence,
had been watching Mercer island with q
glass the morning of ,he murder He xss
rsarressed. tried in Seattle for murder, bu,
the jary disagreed Then be was
tried at Port Townsend, aud the
jury disagreed again. The next tine
he wss tried here by Ksisap
jury and convicted. The case was APP
Feslsd to the supreme court. aud the order
came from that authority that If az tie
next trial the state coali not produce
more evidence than had been brought OCT
the case would have TO De dismissed The
case xas tried the last time at Port Msdi-
SON. and as the State did not produce more
evidence Miller VAS turned loose. He is
siili alive, bus his daughter Josephine,
who some thought had hand in the ksll-
ing, committed suicide in this city two
or three wears ago ~ hiie working as do
nestle Tor I. II. Hardin. one of Mii!er's
sons has peea Ia the insane asylum several
times. and hiss been the cause Of much
fear aad trouble TO The people OF the east
era shore OF the lake by his Mid work
when az large.