The age-herald., 1901-01-13
Convicted Murderer of Officer Adams Makes Statement DECLARES HE IS INNOCENT Admits That He Sent for the Saws to Get Out of Jail-SaYs
 His Trial Was a
 Farce.

iNllhleys iitio ct ietoN piCiNSi NAAS silence and written the Age-Herald his statement of the "saw episode" a full ac- count of which was published in yester- days paper
 He also telephoned for an Age-Herald re- porter to whom he made the statement below.
 He claims all the witnesses testified at his trial that the shooting was done by a man with weeks growth of beard, and that on the morning of the killing he was shaved in Frank McCree's shop, the door of which was freshly painted, and that he got paint on his sleeve which a man rubbed off with his handkerchief in the barber shop. Frank McCree stated yesterday that he recalled the incident.
 Miller says he was not taken before Adams to be identified until four days af- ter he was shot, at which time Adams was dying.
 He further says he was not allowed to see lawyer until the morning of the trial; that all the witnesses testified that a man with a light overcoat did the shoot ing, and that Oscar Simon, one of the wit nesses, swore that he (Niller) did not have one on.
 He is bitter against the manner in which his trial was conducted and the fact that no German has assisted him.
 If I could have got out of jail with out hurting anybody said Miller, 'I would have done so. I haven't hurt anybody yet. No bloodshed shall be on my hands-I never take what I cannot give.
 There never was such a trial as mine. I was tried forty-nine days after I was ar rested everything was at fever heat.
 q was arrested in Anniston on Thurs day night, March 29, 19Oo I was brought here the same evening. MT. Kirkley was dead and Adams in a fair way to recover. They waited four days before they took me up to him to be identified He was then dying and full of drugs. I have told the chief and everybody that they ought to arrest the guilty party-New York Har- ". MT Bodeker was the detective who worked the case up. He said Frank I know you are not guilty, but I can't help you He found every word I said to him when I was arrested was true
 'I was put in the condemned cell and was not allowed to see or hire a lawyer They had five of the best lawyers against me-Allen, Solicitors Ferguson, Mcqueen, Hefiin and General Ferguson. Joe Mont gomery was my lawyer. The first time saw him was the morning of the trial The statement I made on the stand May A. 1900, was true. I was cross-examined. Duncan wasn't there and never saw the policemen. The Light overcoat. Here's the point I am willing to hang on. When came out of Oscar Simons saloon with "New York Harry" Oscar Simon swore that did not have the light overcoat on We were arrested right outside of the saloon at 12 o'clock and after the shooting. The police said that one of the two men who came out of the saloon did the shoot ing, and that the man with the light over- coat did it. This overcoat did not fit me and I never wore it. The witnesses who swore against me were nearly all negroes. One of them said that he could identify me by my mustache, which never had A white witness said he saw one of the men take off light overcoat and put it on the side walk. I stood up and he looked at me very close and said This is not the man.
 Everybody swore the man who did the shooting had weeks growth of whiskers. I can prove that had a shave that morning in a barber shop"
 Miller then described how he and Fay had gone into barber shop and taken bath and been shaved. Miller did not know ex- actly where it was. but Fay, who was seen later by the reporter, said it was on the west side of Twentieth street between First and Second avenues. Miller said that the man who shaved him would probably not re- member the day, but as a circumstance to fix the time he said the front of the shop had been freshly painted and that as Le came out the door he got paint on his sleeve. A gentleman who was going in the shop at the time noticed 1t and took him back and rubbed the paint off his arm with his handkerchief and some turpentine he had in a bottle. Miller says he thanked him and asked him his name and that the man was evidently well known for he looked at him as if he ought to have known his name, and handed him card, on which Miller says, to the best of his recollection, was printed the name of Professor Macy or Macey, music teacher. If there is such a person in the city Miller is very anxious to see him. He described him as a rather large man with light mustache.
 q am a German and was born in Ger many" continued Miller. q have no friends in this country No German has assisted me. What money I have my sister has sent me from Germany.
 I'm no angel, but I'm no murderer. could have killed Jailor Sudduth the day started to escape, but I didn't. I had no pistol when arrested In Admission. I am not a murderer. When a man commits murder he is always prepared to commit another"
 Corroborative Evidence. After leaving the jail the reporters went to the barber shop of Frank McCree, which is the only one in the locality men, tioned. by Fay. McCree said that the front of his shop had been painted in March, 19OO the time mentioned by Miller and that he remembered the incident of getting fresh paint on his sleeves and another man rubbing it off with his handkerchief The only Massey fin the city is the presi- ,dopt of Massau,S RusinAsSs College. but in