Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-13

left the train at New Haven, but the
train hands cannot tell whether he
boarded 1t again or not. Their descrip-
ton of the man TALES almost exactly
with description of Miller.
Harold L. Brotherton, the ticket agent
at the Union station, remembered that
man with a checked cap was in the
station Friday night. 81 remember see
ing him in the waiting-room," says Mr..
Brotherton, land noticing the poor
clothing he had on. and thought 1t
singular that he would be wearing a
golf cap. | recall that he came to the
ticket Office a few minutes after l first
saw him in the waiting room and bought
a ticket for Bridgeport. The fare is 30
cents and when l handed him the ticket
l noticed that he was Of dark complex
ion, wore a moustache and appeared to
be a foreigner When he received the
ticket he passed out of the station and
1 did not see him again. / am not sure
that he bought the ticket in season to
get on board the Owl again or not, but
! if he did not he could have caught the
Shore line train at 4.50 a. m. know
that he did not give me any coin that Is
of any value to a collector, because l
am on the lookout for those rare pieces
and always keep them When l get them
! in change"
| Mr. Brotherton's story corroborates a
statement of Baggage Master John i.
Tracey, who saw the man enter the
waiting room. Millers policy seems 10
be to buy tickets short of his intended
destination and there is an evident
method in this successive purchase OF
tickets for short distances.
The first boat Miller could have got
out of Haven was the Richard Feck,
which sailed for New York at O'Clock
Sunday morning. Officer Higgins, on
duty at the wharf, says he is put there
to scrutinize every passenger, and ne
! does so. He says he knows that no man
| of Milers description went aboard the
Peck Sunday morning. This statement
is also repeated by the officer in answer
to inquiries concerning the situation ON
Sunday night and last night, for the
Peck runs nightly. There was no sat
urday night boat on the Starin line, and
Officer Connors, who is on duty at this
wharf, is equally sure that on the 10. 10
p. m. trip Sunday no suspicious person
took passage. The only vessels leaving
New Haven are golfers to Jersey City
and Philadelphia, and the chief says he
| has ascertained that it would be prac-
tically impossible for a man like Miller
to ship on board vessel of this charac-
ter
A SUSPECT AT WHITINSVILLE.
Whitinsville, Mass, Jan. IA man
whose description answers closely that
published of the Brookfield murderer,
stopped at E. A Kegwin's boarding
house yesterday morning and asked for
breakfast. As is the usual custom with
Mrs. KeigWin in such cases. the strang-
er was set to work on a cord of wood
to earn his meal.
10 Vod TO he fro 1Xy
and excited. Every few moments he
suddenly threw up his head from the
woodpile and gazed in every direction
as though fearful of being approached
unawares. When he was eating his
breakfast his actions were similar,
glancing about him after every mouth
full of food. Mrs. Keigwin was afraid
of him and asked clerk from a neigh
boring store to come in a few minutes.
, They both agreed that the resemblance
to the man described in the papers this
morning was remarkable, but the
stranger was allowed to go unques-
toned and without calling the attention
of the local police to the matter, be-
cause both Mrs. Keigwin and the clerk
feared being laughed at should the
stranger proved to be other than the
missing Paul Miller. He left Whitins-
vile about 1890 o'clock.
MAN HELD AT PROVIDENCE
Providence, Jan IA man whose
description and general appearance re-
sembles almost perfectly that of Paul
Miller the farm hand who is suspected
of the murder of the Newton family at
| Brookfield, Mass, Monday, is locked up
at the Central station. He gives the
name of William Cannon, and says he
| is a sailor by occupation. He is q
years of age. and states that he came
| here from Boston Monday He was ar
rested by officer Mcdonald of the Cen
trail station, yesterday morning, short
! ly after 7.30 o'clock, in the Columbia
| lodging house at the corner of South
Main and Crawford streets. 1t was de-
cided to hold him until he was identi-
| fed, or a person who proved to be Mil
| Ter captured.