The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
LAwTEY's DOUBLE MURDER.
A Restaurant Keeper of Tampa Sus-
pected of Having n Hand i'm II.
From the Tampa FlaD Times.

George Miller, who has been keeping
the tent restaurant on the old opera
house site on Franklin street for year
past, was arrested about 10 O'Clock Thurs
day night on the charge of murder by
Deputy Sheriff NJ. L. Johns of Bradford
county. Sheriff Spencer and Deputy
Sheriff Boil.
Sheriff Spencer received a telegram
from Deputy Sheriff Johns to meet him
at the depot Thursday night. He did so,
accompanied by Deputy Boil. Deputy
Johns had warrant for George Miller
and after hunting him about town. the
officers went to Miller's house where they
found him. Deputy Boil began reading
the warrant to him when Miller exclaim-
ed, Never mind, l know what you want
and III go along with you To the Off
GERS he said he associated in Jacksonville
with Max Boch as a friend but that he
only went with him to advise him and
keep him from doing wrong, as he knew
Max was a wild fellow and needed add
vice. Deputy Johns says Max or Miller
shot DR.. Drolshagen, BOchs uncle, and
then shot his wife, Lawtey being the
scene of the crime. The woman was not
killed by the shot and then, she was
struck over the head with the butt of a
pistol.
wife says she thinks the whole trouble is
caused by man named Vesper, who owes
them money. Sheriff Spencer holds a let
in which he says Miller told him he
could hang Boch if he had a mind to
talk, and he would talk if he was GER
tain he would be let alone
Mrs. Miller says they have never been
out of Jacksonville until they came to
Tampa. That she and her husband work.
ed in q restaurant on Bay and Hogan
streets in Jacksonville, and that Max Boch
stayed with them. She says he got out
of money once and they kept him for some
time. Marshal Boil asked her if Boch
have a after
that murder, and she said yes, but when
she asked him to help them, he replied
he had no money
A few days after the murder Max Boch
was seen for the first time in Lawtey
and he proved himself to be the nephew of
the murdered man and secured his prop
erty, said to amount to about $25, 900. He
then went to Brooklyn, where he married
about eight months ago. He was arrested
on Jan. l by the police on requisition
from Gov. Mitchell, based on warrant
sworn out by the administrator Of Drol-
shagens estate, Edward A. Todd against
Max Boch and George Miller charging
them with the murder. 1t is claimed that
Boch said he hired George Miller to kill
his uncle and his wife. The case has been
hid in mystery until Miller gave a clue
that Boch was concerned in it.
From the Jacksonville. Fla, Times Union
A queer coincident in connection with
the capture of Macmillan Boch, the drug
gist, arrested in Brooklyn, n. Y, on
charge of having murdered DIR. Gustave
Drolshagen and wife at Lawtey. last year,
is the signing of a decree in a civil seit
ceased.
The decree was rendered by Judge Call
Friday in the case of of Sophia Glauz-
mann VS.. Max Boch and Nicholas Boch
and was to the effect that the complain
ant, a sister of the murdered woman is
entitled to a half interest in coparcenarv
with the defendants to property valued
at $4,000 in Bradford, Clay and Alachua
counties. 1t was also ordered and de-
creed that Max Boch and Nicholas Boch,
each in their own right is entitled to a
one-fourth interest in coparcenary with
each other and WITH the complainant. 1t
was further decreed that w. L. Weeks,
clerk of the circuit court OF Bradford
county, n. d. Wainwright, receiver of
public money at the Gainesville land of
nee, and Fabian Law, prominent attor-
| ney at Green Cove Springs be appointed
to make partition of the estate.
In the masters report in this case is the
testimony of number of witnesses the
majority of whom testified to the finding
of the bodies of DIR. Drolshagen and wife
lying on the bed in their house on the
morning of June q, 1894. The testimony
was to the effect that the doctor was ly-
ing on the right side of the bed, covered
up with the bed clothes and that he had
a bullet hole in the center of the top of
his head. The woman was lying by his
size but was not under the bedclothes and
her nightrobe was pulled up above her
waist The body showed that she had
struggled after being shot. The cause
of her death was a bullet in her right eye
An important point brought out was that
the bullet did not pass through the eye
tiu, WHICH showed COnCluSlNelN tnat the
woman was awake when the fatal shot
was fired and had evidently been awaken
ed by the shot that killed her husband
One of the principal witnesses, but
most reluctant one, was DIR. e. A Todd
| the administrator of DR.. Drolshagen's es-
! tate. According to the evidence of DR.
| Tate Powell in the civil suit the death of
| the man was instantaneous, but that of
| the woman was not
| 1t was expected that Sheriff Johns and
| his prisoner, Max Boch, would arrive last
night from New York, but they did not
| reach here.
! 1t is very probable that Boch will be
confined in the Duval county Jail until
1 the case is ready for trial in Bradford
/ county. A gentleman from Bradford
/ county said Friday night that there was
] little doubt but what a certain person liv-
/ ing at Starke would be arrested last night
! or to-day on charges of being an Access
! sorry to the crime with which Max Boch
/ is charged.
Nine. Jeanne Hugo, the granddaugh-
! ter of Victor Hugo, who was recently di-
! yorced from her husband, Alphonse Dau-
! dets son, is about to marry young doe
! tor of Paris.
! Col. c. A. Lincoln, a cousin of Abra-
! ham Lincoln and a farmer in Kansas, has