The age-herald., 1898-02-13
WOMAN'S HONOR
 FOR MANS LIFE Mrs. Miller Declared the Alleged
 Relations BETWEEN SHE AND LLOYD Were True, and That Both COnniVed at
 John GalfOrd'S Death. LAST EFF0 E = FOR A NEW TRIAL
  Resulted E )thing and Sentence | vs Pronounced. Io APRIL ~ NAMED AS THE DAx Stay of Execution Was Granted Pending
APRIL NAMED A. TIE D4.
the Appeal to the supreme Court Mrs. Miller Reached Brming-
 ham Last Night.
Special to The Age-Herald.

Greenville Feb. 12.-Today an Alabama woman gave up her honor on the altar of filial affection and the sacrifice will be coqn- plete when of her own voliton she appears in court of justice and when from her own mouth fall the words which will pro- claim her to the world a woman beneath women According to the will of Judicial authority this may never occur, but the records made of her sacrifice, the greatest that woman can offer before a cold and unsympatthetic world and get nothing great enough to turn the scorn of her sisters to pity, nor to overcome the feelings of revul- sion that was love.
 Mrs. Kate Miller, who as the sister of the murderer of Barlow Lloyd and the supposed woman in the the tragedy had attained prominence given by unlimited newspaper paragraphs before she added new and highly sensational turn to the Gafford case in the circuit court of Butler this afternoon. Mrs. Miller, upon arriving in this city. was taken before a notary of the public and admitted the relations alleged to have existed between she and Bartow Lloyd, the writer. This was the last effort of the defense to gain a new triad, which was denied, Judge Ty. son having granted a stay of execution pending the appeal.
 To Defend Himself.
 
 Lloyd to defend himself and through his energetic counsel he has attempted to show that Lloyd desired his death. Mrs. Miller was required to prove this by admitting her relations with the deceased writer, but Mrs. Miller appeared not after giving her evidence before the grand jury which in- dicted her brother. Her absence from the regular court is explained later It was the cause of much comment during the trial, it not being believed then that John ,la fa.. tffd force her into acknowledgement of wrong doing which she firmly maintained she had not been guilty of. That was before Gaf- ford's life was In jeopardy. Now when the moose is around his neck awaiting the acs tion of the supreme court, Mrs. Miller rel lents She casts aside her womanhood and in doing so reveals it in a greater measure Her good name, the honor of the deaq Lloyd, everything is cast aside to save the living Gafford, while the people ask whaT will 1t all avail him, and have their own opinion about the veracity of the prin- cipals in the story.
 Into the circuit court came Mrs hat9 Miller by way of an affidavit sworn 10 before a notary which was said to con- tain new evidence and as such was s ground for a new trial. It was on such a motion by Attorneys Richardson and DinJxin who have been Zealous in Gat- ford's behalf that the affidavit was put in.
 A Secret Understanding.
 If is mainly repetition and shorn of it's legal phraseo]ogy. It goes to snow that there was a secret understanding between Lloyd and the sister of his slayer that they frequently met and discussed Gamord, ana that the two connived at Gafford's death The threats put into the mouth of Lloyq by the woman are said by the dead writer's friends not to be the language oF Lloyd as it was known to thQusaQos Tn this state. TOT was it one of his characA olo rabeat threat over and over again ip identically the same language that John Gafford was a stumbling block in their path and must be got rid of by killing, because when ne was asked to go away at great expense to the asker, he never failed to return.
 Mrs Miller does not say openly she loved Lloyd, but she did like him better than she did her brother, and when she and that brother fell out Barrow Lloyd could have killed him without mercy or justice and she would have acceded to Lloyd's constant urging that she would support his self-defense theory, and would have perjured herself for the assassin of her brother. That is what the document said when it is reduced to it's finest terms. Then it is not strange to find her throw ing herself into an abyss of public opinion and taking oath for her flesh and blood when that oath is affixed to the statement that she would have done 1t for another. Wherever she met Lloyd, whether 1t was Montgomery or the nttle opflnS I1iii church, she claims, Lloyds mind was al- ways full of tho same subject. the destruc- tion of John Gafford, who was in the way.
 On Bias and Outside Evidence
 Prior to this startling phase of the case, the fight was made on that part of the motion concerning the bias and discussion of outside evidence derogatory to defend- ant by the jurors. This was disposed of by tho sworn affidayits of Jesse Wright, 10. J. Hancock G. w. Duncan and G. R. Wilson. members of the jury. The so- licitor, Col. Stallworth, contended and was upheld, that the jury having decided the guilt of Gafford on the argument was in- competent. and the jurors were the best to know how they stood without infiu- ence by additional evidence in conversa- tion.
 A point was made by Capt Dinknson on one member of the jury, suggesting that as Gafford had escaped from the Arkansas penitentiary. he might get out of the Alabama penitentiary and kill some of them. An outside conversation had with Irving Gafford just after the killing which. would have reduced MT. Dinkinson's