The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-13
Broils Steak to Perfection.
70 rpTHg 10 SMOKE OR SMELL
MIILER-s STORY.
He Tells Of His Connection With the
Merrill case.

IRE Posr-EnteIsi~eneer has RETAINED as
mach as possible from Dragging the
Merrill case into print Time ard
time again. however. th4 matter Gas
been forced to the frn1s- The persistent eE-
fort to put the biaarr for Merr.sTs death
On Chief q Police Rogers has az length
caused Robert Miller. TIE prosecuting Wit
ness against Merrill and who actually
male the arrest hsEf-sl.. TO come forward
with the following letter 70 the public:
- have kept very quiet n rssard % the
Merrill case. but would Ike 10 TEL lew
facts 20 those who are stirring tas matter
10. In tire first place. I never spoke 10
Cnief Rogers n M Life until Saturday,
February /, when ! xent TO fie the COM
paint against Merrill. / never before rad
any business with Rogers OF any kind !
co not know what be tKogerzl belongs 70.
neither Go / care AS fer Merrill sont
think I ever saw him I'll the night l ar
rested hlE1 II my barn, and did not know
him thea til be told ne Re was an officer
OF the law. lie said his gun Was in ny barn
on the floor. lie also told me he was
married man. and had q family. and he sad
other shIngs which / can't publish lie
also said ne had lots Of money and prop
eFty, and would do anything N the weird
fer me IL would not expose him / told
him did not think IL right for man Like
him 10 run at large. and ] took him 10 ro-
lice headquarters. When a man sees, with
his own eyes, 8 man committing q crime
hs can fssi assured that there IS not mis-
take"
After quoting some Scripture. the letter
continues. Merrill was guilty OF the
crime charged against him. Mr.. Wess vas
glad to come 10 my house 70 see me on be-
half o. Merrill and Dexter tine ex-police-
nam, and said 1 would have no heart 10
prosecute Merrill, as he and his wife tad
been degraded enough. He did not say
then that Merrill was an innocent man.
He did not tell me that was q hobo, nor
a beach comber, nor a jail bird. i would
Ike 10 tell Dir. West that ! never Has IN
JAN IN my life. and that have got a good
reputation. / have been asked afty times
II any one made any attempt 10 h-be me-
l say that there WAS. l had four or i've
offers. and they were from member or
the 4. r. A, too. but / was not IN that
business. / would Ike 70 say that The men
who vera with me az the time OF the arrest
belong TO the Sailors Union, with which
there are great many A y. AS connect
ed The men who were with me have got
good discharges from every ship they have
been in for years, and do not think they
wouli-d3 a rash act for me or any one else,
or they would have accepted the 500 and
notes offered 10 them by an A. p. a 10 skip
out. I am not a sailor myself. neither Go
I keep what Is called 3 sailors boarding
house. think Il would have been better
for Mr.. B1sheii TO have heard both sides
OF the AFFAIR before going on public Plat
form TO tell an overlooking house that Net
rlII was innocent. IL Merrill was looking
for stolen goods IL took him long time 10
find theri. IL Is very seldom that an inno-
cent man blows oct his brains"