The age-herald., 1901-04-26
CIGARETTES AND
 LETTER WRITING How Frank Miller Spends Time
 in Jail ENDLESS CHAIN RESULTS He Talks to an Age-HeraId Reporter About His Trial-Has a Postoffiee Box-Frank Duncan I'm.
 patient.
ENDLESS CHAIN RESULTS

The Supreme Court having adjourned. no decision in the Duncan case the court meets again.
 Frank Miller, together with Frank Dun can were convicted of killing Policeman Adams in March, 1900. Miller is under sentence of death and Duncan was sen fenced to life imprisonment for the of- fense Their cases were appealed to the Supreme Court.
 Ever since an erroneous report, pub lished several weeks ago that the Sn- preme Court had affirmed the case, Miller has been visibly affected by the strain of anxiety under which he lives. He looks much thinner than formerly, and his soli- tary confinement together with his cig- arctic smoking Is telling on his health. He Is an inveterate smoker and his "end- less chain" has brought him In enough money to supply his desire for smoking and any other little wants.
 At the time the report reached, the jail that Miller's sentence had been confirmed by the Supreme Court he was taken from the cell in which he bad been fors several months and put in another. He was also, as Is customary in such cases. made to change his clothes from the skin out. This made him very indignant at the time. His old clothes, he said. were much finer and more valuable than the cheap new suit they gave him. When it was learned that no decision had been made, his old clothes were given back to him and he Is now enjoying the comfort of an old suit which is also a better suit than the new one.
 Has a Mail Box.
 "I don't owe cent" said Miller yester- day in talking to an Age-Heraid reporter "and I've rented box for my mail at the postoffce.'
 Its number is S13," he continued in answer to further questions, land here's the key" holding up letter box key for the reporter to see. II still get some let ters in answer to my endless chain. To- day got dollar and yesterday ten cents. So far I have got about $50. Peo- pie in the jail actually come to me now to borrow small sums of money"
 As the days go by, endless as they seem in jail and always monotonous, Miller's mind continually dwells on the incidents of his trial He asserts his innocence as strongly as ever denying that he did the shooting and saying that New York liar " was the man who did it and was also the man who wore the famous light over coat. sr
 "Everybody said at the trial" said Mill Ter yesterday. that 1t was the man with the light overcoat who did the shooting and some of them said that was the man with the overcoat. To begin with, this coat doesn't fit me. Then the man who had on that overcoat was shot. There is bullet hole through the left side pocket, or just above the pocket, and whoever had on that coat at the time must have been shot. Now, wasn't shot. Moreover, the coat underneath the over coat must have been penetrated by the bullet.
 His Old Coat.
 This coat I've got on now is the one had on that night. As you see there are no bullet holes through it. l bought it from J. B. Wassman, in Chattanooga. whose father is the mayor of the city I sent him a sample of the coat recently (showing the reporter a place in the coat where a piece had been cut ouD and here is a letter from him in which he says he remembers selling it to me some seventeen months ago." Here Miller pro duced 8 letter which read as he said.
 "The police" continued Miller, "at the time I was arrested and they found no bullet hole in my coat. tried to say that had changed my clothes after the shoot ing But this letter, as you see, bears out my statement that I had on this suit at the time and that bought it in Chat tanooga before coming to Birmingham,
 When he is not breeding and pondering over his trial, Miller spends his time read ing his letters and writing answers. He has received many sympathetic letters from all parts of the country and one or two women in New York are doing what they can for him. Some of the letters received by him are well written. Miller himself writes a good letter and is very intelligent. He was educated for Cath ollie priest. afa
 Frank Duncan is in a cell not far from Miller. on the same side of the jail He seems to take things quietly. He is get ting impatient, however. waiting on tho Supreme Court. T wish they would hur- iy up and decide things" he exclaimed yesterday.
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