The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-10

| the boys talking about getting a train
| at the Four Mile Hill. / started in
| the morning and kept right up the
! Ogeechee road for a long time. At
! the big tree that had fallen on the
| right-hand side of the road where 1
| showed the detectives (this point is
| about seven miles from the city,, Mr.
| Sapp came out and stopped me. lie
| had gun and a heavy bag, and told
me to carry them for him. We walked
! together long ways, about two or
/ three miles down a dirt road.
Then we stopped, and Mr.. Sapp told
me to keep his gun and bag until he
came back. He showed me a white
man and a colOred man in a buggy
piece away. and said the white man
killed a friend of his and shot his
dogs, and he was going to fix him.
1t was so far l could not tell much,
but the white man had white NOUS
tache and the colored man had on a
| brown straw hat. CTaylor wore a
brown felt hat when killed.. Mr..
Sapp left me and told me to be sure
and stay until he got back. He was
gone long time, and I heard two
shots fired from gun, but didn't see
anything
How close were the shots fired to-
gether," was asked.
Bang" said Miller sharply and five
ReNSSN0 DNAOAE 4AE lGpNdtGh
Bang"
Wanted to Kill Him.
II got tired of waiting and was
about making up my mind to put the
gun and bag down and leave when /
saw Mr.. Sapp coming with three other
white men. They were tough looking
men and had guns. They said, Now,
let's do away with that damn niger
Let's kill him and get him out of the
way l was scared and didn't look at
them too hard. but just turned my
head away. Mr.. Sapp said. No, he's
an escaped convict and he might do us
some good. He's a good niger, we
don't want to kill him cause he can
help US sometime
They promised to give me $125 and
made me promise If l got caught to say
l did it. They said they would see me
through all of it, and that l wouldn't
have to do any time. / told them l
would and the three men said if |
didn't they'd kill me, and if ever told
anything they'd kill me. They went
off together through the woods and
Mr.. Sapp came on back up the Ogee-
chez road with me. He made me
carry his bag and gun We went to
Burgers store and sat down and talk
ed He told me to meet him at Bun
gers the next day and he would give
INT Tic llOIiGy. Il went 10 fSunReE S
two days, but didn't see him."
why, here your money is" said the
physician, placing his hand in the ne
gro's.
why didn't you give it to me when
you promised you would" said Miller
closing his hand on the imaginary
money and putting it in his pocket.
Then the mesmerized man was in
structed to drive to the spot where he
l.. IL
in his hands and pointed out places
along the road.
Here is the whip. touch the horse
up and make him go faster" COM
manded the hypnotlst
Let him alone, he is going fast
enough" answered Miller.
The seance had lasted longer than
had been intended, the physician so
announced, the room was cleared and
Miller was walked. With tears trick
ling down his cheeks and half dazed.
he was led back to his cell little i'm
agining what had happened. Yet his
story is not believed. 1t is a common
malady for some classes of people to
repeat lie so often that they finally
believe Ii to be the truth, and it is
pointed out that this is probably the
case with Miller. The double murder
has been so impressed on his mind
that he actually believes that he took
part in it.
Following Bourquin's Tracks.
A trip to the scene of the crime was
made yesterday by a representative of
the Morning News and some of those
interested in the case. and it seems al
most certain that the murderer or
murderers went from the city by the
Louisville road and not by the Ogee-
chez road as Miller insists in both of
his confessions. The party left the
city by way of the Ogeechee road,
visited Mr.. Bourquins home. and fol-
lowed the tracks he had made on his
fatal trip just a week before. The
buggy in which he rode was examined
and the location of some of the shots
makes it certain that the old negro
had at least one buck shot in his back
when he jumped from the buggy and
ran down the railroad track.
A negro settlement on the Dean
Forest road was passed and Bourquin
and his servant were seen alive in the
buggy by some of those who live on
the road This precludes the posi-
bility of the shooting having occurred
anywhere near the Ogeechee road and
the moving of the bodies Within a
hundred yards of the Ogeechee canal
is a negro church, and services were
gro passed on the fatal Sunday.
The canal bridge was crossed and
the Dean Forest road was followed to
the tracks of the Seaboard Air Line.
1t was at this point that the brutal
murder was committed. That the
guilty man was the perfect type of
an assassin is shown by the fact that
the exploded shells were not care
lessly tossed in the road. but were
carried away.
The old negro knew who shot his
master and remembering that dead
men tell no tales, the assassin made
short work of him when he was about
to make his escape. Beyond this the
officers of the law know nothing. They
are as completely in the dark, if not
more so, than at the time the crime
was discovered. However, sensational
developments are yet to be expected.
While it is not now believed that the
murderers will ever be brought to JUS
tice, the officers have not abandoned
the hunt and no pains will be spared
in an effort to discover probably the
shrewdest and boldest assassin who
has ever committed a crime in this
vicinity. Wrapped in mystery as it is.
by discarding the stories told by the
negro and Miller, the murder may yet
be solved.