The age-herald., 1901-06-13
STATEMENTS IN
 THE MILLER CASE Detective Bodeker Thinks the
 Man Should Suffer Penalty DISCUSSES MILLER'S LIFE .Attorneys for the Condemned Man Also
 Make Statement and Say That He Should Be Given Benefit
 of the Doubt.
DISCUSSES MIlLER'S LIFE

s rrank M1ller was .toiu or GoVernOr ! samford's death yesterday morning and he expressed great regret at the occur renee. Miller said he believed Governor Sanford was a good man.
 Since it has been known that Governor Jelks will investigate the Miller case re- newed effort has sprung up in the mans remarkable fight for his life.
 Detective Bodeker, who was instrument tai fin the capture of the notorious gang of crooks, has heretofore refrained from making a statement concerning the ap- peal to the Governor. After reading a statement in a local paper to the effect -sslatv Mil1er called upon anybody to show \ where he had ever been convicted of serin.A, Mir Bodeker says:
 Bodeker's Statement. When showed Miller his picture in Grannans Detective Agency's Pocket Rogue's Gallery, soon after he was cap tured, he admitted it was his picture He also told me that he broke out of the county jail in Atlanta about 1890 while awaiting trial in the United States Court for passing counterfeit currency, and at
 
 him. One Gentry escaped. who was sen- fenced to be hung. Some years later, about SEA or 1895. Miller was recaptured and sent to the United States prison at Columbus, Ohio, for a term of two years He also admitted that he was arrested in 1892 In Cincinnati and further stated that in talking to Chief Dietsch of Gin cinnati, that the chief stated that he was being held for blowing a safe at some little place near Cincinnati, but later on the chief allowed him to plead guilty to drunkenness, and that he paid q fine of BIO. I found out after Miller was captured that he and Duncan and a man named Short were arrested in Au- gusta, Ga, in January, 1900, for blowing a safe at Elkins. s. C., and that Short pleaded guilty and took the whole blame and was sentenced to the penitentiary. All three of these men were armed with pistols at the time they were arrested and Miller and Duncan were fined for carrying concealed weapons.
 "I am surprised to see Miller's effront- cry in pretending to be so innocent Can Miller show where he has made an hon. 
 I think Miller's sentence Is just and de- serving for the crime he has committed" !"
 MT. Bodeker was asked if he believed there was such man as New York Harry.
 We'll yes, there is such man, or rath- CT. man who is called New York Harry. and he was here and participated in blow ing the safe of the Standard oil Company and an can be convicted if captured; also Shenandoah Red. I would like to see the Governor offer a standing reward of $2Od for the arrest of both Of these men, to show to the criminals of other sections that Alabama hunts her criminals the country over and that they cannot come here and commit crimes and leave the States boundaries and be safe from mo- 1ostation.
 '.I positively did not tell Miller at any time that I thought him innocent" MiiIer's Attorneys Make a Statement.
 Frank MilleTs attorneys have prepared an exhaustive statement of his side of the case, which they will present to the Governor in a plea for executive clemen- cy. The statement is practically a rope. tition of former statements made by Mil- Ter to the effect that man named New York Harry fired the shots which caused the death of the two officers.
 Considerable stress is laid upon the con f11ct in the testimony as to whether or not the defendant wore light overcoat. Up- on these alleged conflicts in the evidence they ask that Miller be given the benefit q the doubt
 ! Discussing the overcoat question, the at- torreys say:
 sBoth the policemen who were killed testify that the man who shot them was dressed in a light overcoat Now, there are witnesses. whose veracity is beyond all assault, who make affidavit that they witnessed the shooting, saw the man the policemen were shooting at pass under the arc lamp at Third and Twentieth, and could distinctly discern that the man who did the shooting had on a light overcoat and wore brown moustache and was not Frank Miller"