The age-herald., 1901-04-02
FRANK MILLER'S
 ENDLESS CHAIN He Receives Some Money Through Age-Herald TALKS OF NEW YORK HARRY Says the Clipping From the lndianapo' lis News corroborates Ills State. ment-He Has a Rabbits
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TALKS OF NEW YORK HARRY

Muncie Ind. March 29, 1901. To the Editor of the Age-Herald.
 Dear Sir-At the request of several friends of Mir Frank Miller, who Is at present confined In the Jefferson County jail at your city, I enclose $2 and clip ping from Indianapolis paper. MT Mii- Ter has always been well liked in this community and his few friends are sur prised to find such state of affairs. Will you please see that he gets amount en- closed. Mir. Miller was at one time In the newspaper business. Anything that you may do for this unfortunate Will De appreciated by his friends among who Is yours truly, JOHN w. MEOG'
 Care Muncie Times.
 An Age-Herald reporter called to see Miller at the jail. He spoke kindly Of Mir Meug, and was very grateful for the money and the fact that the appeal he recently made through an endless chain" letter asking assistance, Is being responded to. So far he has received S17 in small donations.
 The clipping from the Indianapolis News referred to in the letter was published in full In Sundays Age-Herald. The follow ing extract is again reproduced:
 On the day of the great BowenMerrill fire, March IT, 1900, when several fire men were killed and others were taken to the City Hospital suffering from in juries, Miller was a convalescent patti ent in the institution. He had been there for several weeks, and was able to hob ble about the place when the injured fire men arrived. One of them, ". c. Tal- shown me.
 fire headquarters, was expected to die, and Miller devoted his time as nurse. So attentive did he become that the ser vices of the regular nurses were dis- pensed with, and during the fireman's long weeks of suffering, which followed, Miller was constantly at his bedside. Tallentire has always said that Miller saved his life.
 Miller Talks.
 'That extract from the Indianapolis News" said Miller, "bears out my state ment made during my trial that l was in Indianapolis at that time. l remem- Der the fire quite well. The chief sent all the men on the roof and the whole building collapsed. There were thirteen or fourteen killed. W. c. Tallentire, the man nursed, was captain of engine No. IS. Fireman Black was the first one brought in the hospital lived at Indian apolis off and on for three years Mayor Denny would help me if he Is still there."
 "What about your endless chain?" he was asked.
 l'Everybody is willing to send me hut thau don't to understand about the endless chain They usually take up a subscription in- stead of writing letters for me. l ap- preciate greatly however, what they have done and the kindness they have 29, 1900, or two days after the shooting.
 'I have been in jail here since March 29, 190O or wo days after the shooting During all that time I have not re- ceived a cent from anybody except my family until I received this s17. They talk about my belonging to rich gang of crooks. but that don't look much like it. Since January 2 I have been in soli- tary confinement and before that I was for much of the time''
 Talks of New York Harry.
 ''Everybody at the time of my trial" continued Miller, thought that New York Harry, who I said did the shooting, was a myth. Since I have been In jail have obtained evidence to prove that New York Harry was in Atlanta two days after the shooting. and that he changed his clothes there. can also pro- duce the dealer who sold him the light overcoat in Chattanooga. You will re- member also that New York Harry was described as having a gold tooth. Well, know who the dentist is in Chattanooga who fixed 1t. He remembers New York Harry and recollects fixing his tooth.
 "They testified also at the trial that the man who went in the direction I claimed to have gone was lame, and talked with a Dutch accent. We'll, here's my foot" he said, showing his right foot, which was injured, he claimed, in a runaway "It was also claimed,' he continued. that I shot a pistol with my right hand and then with my left My left arm, as you see, is also injured" Here he rolled up his sleeve and displayed his forearm. which appeared to have been cut. "I don't believe" he continued, q could hold a pistol in that hand. As to my accent. you hear for yourself how I talk and MT Simon, the saloonkeeper at Third av- enue and Nineteenth street, testified that he heard a man with a German accent yell Stop them! Stop themr and ask where were they shooting I don't deny being in the crowd" said Miller. 'In fact I thought they were shooting at me, and yelled to stop them'
 Couldn't Be In Two Places.
 'There is another point would like to bring out. The man with the light over coat who did the shooting ran up Third avenue towards the courthouse. If that was me, and not New York Harry how could know what was going on down the avenue at Nineteenth street? I told what happened there and MT. Simon cor roborates me.
 T have received many kind letters" continued Miller, but my best friend is lady in New York who writes for the papers. She writes to me every now and then"
 Say" said Miller. Twill you do me a favor?"
 The reporter assured him he would.
 ''Well, some of the pictures the papers have of me make me look like A ooriu,