Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-05-19
He is Wounded but Says that
 Jailor MeadOr Fired the Shots and That he was not with Parker at Lynx Creek
He Confessess to ( Most Murdereus Plot on the Part of the Prison- CTS Involving the Robbery of the County Treasurer.
From Saturdays Daily.

From saturdays Daily
 L. c. Miller, who escaped from jail on Sunday was arrested last night at Jerome by Deputies
 tle,ehes Fairchiid aud Cade Siiyey.
 By his request he was taken C.
 Flagstaff where he will be kep' fpr a time ln jail until excitement m Pres colt 6ver the trsgic event subsides.
 Miller gives version of the ,s- cape and flight which throws an en- Hrely different light on the entire alfsir. While he Is wounded in the left leg and in the left side he re- ceiVed them from bullets from k. W, Meador's pistol, as he was com ing up the stairway from the jail 10 the court house instead of from Deputy Munds' rife. He 80 states that Meador hit the Mexican too the bullet passing through bis body, but did not strike vital part. Miller further stated to the officers .hat he left'his two companions within if teen minutes after their escape and went up by the city reservoir aud hid in the brush remaining there till night when he worked his way to Point of Rocks where he remained hidden all day on Monday. There he got on the railroad and followed it till nearly Jerome Junction when he cut across the country to the Jerome road and followed 1t till near Jerome, when he agaIn took to the brush and remained concealed.
 He further states that six prisou- CTS were involved in the plot to es- cape, their plans having been laid for the previous day, but he refused to divulge the names of the other three. He says the plot ss originally planned was 10 hold up the county treasureT's office and take everything in sight and to spare no one who came between them and liberty, but through some cause or other the opportunity did not present itself. He SAYS that PaTker's ambition par ticulaTly was Go get Sheriff Ru1ner Miller tiinks that the Mexican was seriously wounded and that they may find his dead body.
 Otto Miller was released from custody this morning there being not scintilla of evidence to con- meet him evsu in the remotest de grsa with the escape, and be has been made to su1er on account of his brother, 1t has bsen apparent from the first that the es- capes had no aid whatever from lie outside, and Miller co-roborates this. The plot was planned entirely on ;he inside ot the Jail and executed from there without any outside aid CT assistance and without the know ledge of any one on the outside. He says that when tho Mexicaa cane out for the water, Parker was con cealed from the yisw of Ja3l Meador. That he (Miiler) sto | at the end of the table in the jail corridor, with paper in his hands. and tBat the signal agreed upou by them was that when the Mexican grappled with MeadoF he was to drop tbe paper when all were 70 rush t0 the door. This he did but only himself and Parker succeeded in getting through the door.
 tTam an extra issued by the Je- rome Reporter last night the follow ing additional particulars are gleaned;
 At about 10 o'clock tonight, Fri day. forger and jail breaker, l.. c. Miller, gave himself up to justice and law at the home of his sister, Mrs. Fred Haas, of this city.
 Under Sheriff Fletcher Fairchild, of Coconino county, a brother-in law of MilleI's, had been sent for from Flagstaff and to him Miller 
 It was through the efforts of his sister that Miller. who had been hiding in an old tunnel at the Win camp, just above town, in Deception Gulch, for the past two days, was induced to give himself up. He is in pitiable condition weak from his wounds which are not, however, of a serious nature, Miller having walked the greater portion of the distance to this city. When he reached the friendly shelter of the Black Hills, and felt that the mine where he worked before he left here about a month ago-was within reach, he could scarcely muster courage to reach the place where he has been cared for since Wednesday morning.
 One of the men who gave Miller shelter in the Winningham camp, is said to be a brother-in-law to Parker.
 Miller was at once taken by Fair ehilds, m private conveyance, from town, as he was very much afraid of being lynched. Although his crime itself is but small one, his assoeia- tion with one of the most foul mur- ders that has ever plotted the pages of the history of our territory, is enough to hang him in the old way in which justice had often been ad- ministeIed in early days, and he i'm plored to be taken some place fur ther from the scene of crime, aud IS now well on his way to Flagstaff, sc- companied by Fairchilds and another officer.
 Above all things, Miller had no wish to sec Prescott, and for many reasons it was deemed advisable to take him to Flagstaff
 Little can be learned from the people instrumental in his surren- der here, as they refused to talk to