The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-04-17
FRANK MILLER's STATEMENT.

maze by Miller TO MS attorney, u. II. SEN
ter, in Washington county jail within three
days after he was indicted by the grand
jury and was corroborated by the States
witnesses az 1t would have been more fully
by those OF the defense had not States At
torney Hosr asked the court to order the
verdict which 1t did.
Miller, neither before nor after his trial,
gave out any statement TO the papers, so
this is the lrst presentation Of his side OF
the case.
Left Northfeld on the ten o'clock train
for Montpelier with John Cotter. Left
Cotter opposite side OF Pavilion Hotel.
went to the circus grounds and met j. Ken
nedy there. We went into the side show
and stayed one hour or 80 and there met
Thomas Edwards. We went out together
and up to lemonade stand on the juno
tion road, got some beer at the stand oppo-
site the circus grounds and there met Jo-
seph Bennett. Talked while with him,
| could not say how long. Edwards left
me and went away with a man named
Jones. Later l left Joe and went to circus
grounds. On my way L met Winnie Van
orman and went with him to see the horse
that got hurt in Burlington in car below
the circus grounds. We met his father and
mother and he asked them to let him go
with me to the side show and they said yes.
We went into the side show and Winnie
left me between and 4 o'clock p. M. L
stayed an hour or 80 and met Mr.. johnson
there about o'clock and also met Gsuthier.
johnson asked me If there were any North
field people down. L told him 1 had not
seen many, but thought there would be a
lot down. He says "You have not got any
thing on your hip, have youP" told him
mo-. He said he had been where there
was plenty OF 1t and said he knew where
there was going to be another barrel OF ale.
He asked me to go with him and L told him
1 would go and have two or three glasses.
He also said he had been in game the
hAiOrn hri6O1 n
to State street, and up State street TO Elm
and up Elm to School and over the bridge
into the billiard hall. We drank two per
cent beer" In there L saw Jack McCarty
and Fred raro. After drinking some OF
the two per cent beer we went out and
Johnson said he wanted to go into Don
elley's tailor shop to see about his clothes
he was having made. There was some
thing the matter with his vest.
Mr. Donelley told him that he could not fix
it that night as he h Ad too much to do. He
said he would take the vest to another
tailor 80 we walked with him to a tailor shop
over McGill's store. We stayed there few
moments and came out. Now, he says, I'VE
will 90 and have some ale." We went
down South Main street until we came to
the City Cafe where Johnson stopped and
talked with man standing in the doorway,
next TO the cafe. L could not tell who the
man was. johnson came from talking with
him and said: Every thing is all right.
They have just tapped the ale." We went
over South Main street bridge, turned the
right hand corner, and went down past the
Cotton Manufacturing Company's office.
We turned up the path, leading to the
woods, and there saw five or six men and
one-fourth barrel OF ale. The only two that
1 knew were Tim W. Kelliher, Jr., and
fellow by the name of Russell do not
know his first name, he was painter. The
man at the barrel and the one that took the
paw for the ale did not know, but Kelliher
and Russell seemed to know them. | think
could tell them il saw them again. drank
four or five tin cups OF ale and johnson
drank also. We stayed there one and
half hours or more. L went down the bank
with Kelliher and one or two Others L do
not remember who they were, and when we
got to the road below, johnson tumbled the
whole length OF the side hill into the road,
and Keliher made the remark, Look at
johnson come" | helped him up at the
toot of the bank, picked up his hat which
was all dirty, not sure l picked up the hat,
but brushed IL, and put it on his head. L
asked johnson 70 go home because he was
drunk, but he refused we walked short
distance towards Taylor street and then we
walked together back the way we came.
Kelliher and the other fellows went down
past the gas house and we went over the
bridg down South Main street to the rail-
road bunter, where we met Jack Cayhue
aud another fellow | was intending to take
the track or We would be arrested, 80 took
him down the track, We stopped about
fifty feet from the railroad bridge, near the
clothespin factory.
l told johnson was hungry and told him
to stand there minute until l went to the
Italians to get some sandwiches, he said,
"All right" He was leaning against car
when left him. / met the same two when
l came up after the sandwiches They
asked me where the other fellow was. L
~. Il fttan hid
stood there a few minutes and then went
down to where l left Johnson. When got
there ne was gone. l looked all around
there but failed to find him. l knew he
had not gone up the track, for If he had
sbOuld have seen him. l could not see how
he got through the bridge without falling
through 10. After had looked all around
the bridge 1 concluded somebody had taken
him through or he had gone through safely
himself so l went down the track and met
boy l asked him il ne had seen a drunken
man 90 down the track and he said he had.
He said he saw him 20 over that way and
pointed toward the Taylor street bridge.
asked him to show me and he went over
with me and pointed at Johnson and said,
"rhere he is." | paid him five cents for
paper l owed him for" and he started off.
/ spoke to johnson but got no answer.
saw his hat was gone but ould not find it.
then shook johnson and asked him to
| come home with mo but he gave no answer.
| Tn N thought he would be all right there
and as 1 wanted TO go TO the circus / left
him where 1 found him. l then went down
the track to the bridge where 1 was stopped
| by man. He says "You can't 60 through
here" / asked him why he let all those
other people through. He said they were
railroad men. knew better as there were
lot of people went through. II L had not
seen them going through should not have
tried to 60 through myself. L walked up to
| the bridge and somebody hit me with a
stick across my stomach and 1 hit the near
est man. l then ran up the track and was
stopped by "A railroad man.
met Fred Tsro on the end OF the plat
form and ne sat down beside me on one
side and the railroad man on the other.
sat there while and l saw the railroad
man did not want TO keep me there very
bad 30 got up and ran down to the circus.
| got there one hour late ss the ticket man
told me. After the show 1 came up to the
depot and waited until the 12:40 train. !
saw at the depot a man named Leonard
Relation. He wanted to borrow fifty cents
OF me and told him l did not have It,
went home on the night train and never