The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-02-22

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Adam Miller was buried ON Friday.
Mrs. Miller was allowed to see him be-
fore burial and exhibited considerable
emotion and excitement. Mrs. Mil
Ter Is quite short, with black hair and
eyes, the latter being little out of
focus with each other. She is quite
fieshy and is apparently So years old.
She has somewhat Of a Jewish appear.
ance and when young was evidently
u fairly good looking woman. She
says she had been married to Miller
about eleven years and Miller had
been In this country two years.
While somewhat ignorant, she is
bright and sharp and answered ques-
tions In an'intelligcnt Uf not more
than intelligent) manner;
Joseph Till, tie man TO whom CIR.
cumstances all point US. the person
who actually committed the deed is
held Ia the Jail. He has not been al
lowed to communicate with any of
the others since his arrest. He is
short, not much over five feet high,
dark complexioned, heavy chin,
square cut mouth, heavy built, aud
moves with the automatic precision
Ut a soldier, and stands ut "atten-
ton" when being spoken to. His an
swers ~ questions are brief aud grutf.
lie looks like u man. who would hang
without giving up word. He and
Mrs. Miller came from Paks In Hun.
gary. Mrs. N. states that he had
just been discharged after serving
six months in the Austrian.I II ungar.
Ian army. He gives his age us rs
years.
Balixte or Balichte, the young man,
who was ut the farmhouse, and who
found the horse aud cutter, IL held
under bail as witness. He has also
been kept away from the others
since his arrest: lie is very ignorant
and stupid. The Interpreters all
agree that 1t is hard to understand
him Of make him understand even In
his own language. lie is considerable
Of a calf however, and cries aud bel
lows like u boy over his incarceration.
II 1t were possible to yet ut him In
English by good cross-questioner
there is little doubt that he would
give up all he knows, IL he has not
done 80 already.
There are very many theories us to
the methods and occurrences of the
murder, such as the horse going di.
rect to the farm with the body (wherc
it is said he had never been befors)
and the knife cut and bullet wound
being together.
There seems to be no doubt that
the act was done near Graber's build.
ings. half a mile from the Winchester
place, where the cap was found, and
where the blood stains began to he
seen on the snow, and which lead
clear to the granary where the body
was found.
There is a question as to just how
or when the murderer shot, and also
how or when he used the knife.
Some think the murderer jumped in
and drove the horse, but tracks run.
ming over the snow diagonally from
the place where the cap lay to the
Winchester stable look sif the muir.
dcrer had run across to head off the
horse, (who would have to turn u |
right angle)or took that way of going,
to avoid the road and get back quick
ly.
The position Of the body us found
In the morning looks as IL somebody
had placed it there, as 1t lay on and
between two small piece Of timber,
stretched out and composed. The
horse in turning u very short corner
at the stable came to tho small logs
spoken Of, within a narrow space be.
tween drift Ut snow and the gran.
airy. The sleigh here would necessarl.
ly be lifted on one side by the drift
and 1t would he quite possible for the
murdered man to have ruled out on
the logs ut that time, but hardly pos.
sible to have been laid out so neatly,
on the logs.
But on these minor details are
many questions that remain to be
answered and are hardly explainable
by any theory under the evidence as
now obtained, and unless there Is a
confession by some one who knows all,
the exact truth will never be known.
Just now as we said 1t looks like q
strong case Of clrcumstantial evi.
dcnce against Till, while 1t is a ques-
tion whether there was guilty knowl-
edge before or after the fact by those
who were about him.
II the case cnMes up In court at
this term, there will be strong rea.
sons for delay on the ground that the
previous history Of the:man Till and
woman Miller will DO necessary to
prove or disprovc that Hills love for
her was the motive for, bis killing
Adam Miller. Till has no attorney
now. but one will be appointed to dc.
fcnd him when is arraIgned in court.
For Sale,
One heating stove nearly new, suit.
able for bed room, use wood or soft
coal, one bed room suit in mahogany
finish, set Of dishes, six cane bottom
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