The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-06
TELLS TALE OF CRIME.
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question without hesitation. But each
answer made his statement more inn
probable.
THAT Negro Has Lied"
THAT negro has lied all the way
through. His story Is a fake, pure and
simple. don't believe a single word
of It,"
This was the opinion of Mr.. Osborne
at the conclusion OF the interview. and
Miller was sent back to his cell where
he Is held on a charge of being an es-
capped convict. He told his story again
and again during the evening and be-
fore retiring last night. had final in
terview with a representative of the
Morning News. He still refused to ad-
nit that he had not been telling the
truth.
"The truth is the truth and the light
of the world" he said. What reason
could have for telling something that
/ can hang for? killed those two men
and I was promised $25 for 1t by Mr..
Sapp. shot them in the Ogeechee road
and they must have been moved. Mr.
Sapp might have had friends behind,
and they could have put the white man
In the buggy and drove him off. They
could have put the old niger on the
railroad track for a train to run over.
but before God killed them both. You
want me to say that amt telling the
truth because I'd rather go to the pen
itentiary than the chain-gang, / am
telling the truth, and I'd rather go
to the changing. escaped twice but
/ amt ever even been whipped. l am
the murderer and when I'm getting
punished for one just as we'll get
punished for ALL"
In this manner Miller went to bed
still insisting that he is guilty of a most
atrocious double murder. Even in the
face OF his persistence the detectives
and Solicitor General Osborne main
tain that his story is untrue. Mr..
Osborne declared that the prisoners
attitude was remarkable. 1t is not be-
lieved that he Is a monomaniac and
really imagines that he committed the
crime. Miller himself laughs at this
suggestion. He says he has heard no
one speak of the tragedy since he
fired the shoots and that he can
not read. He declares that he Is
possessed Of all his faculties and that
his story is not the result of dis
eased mind or vivid imagination.
There are cases on record where per-
sons have believed themselves guilty
of crimes that they never committed,
and for this very reason a wise law
says there can be no conviction on an
uncorroborated confession. 1t Is not
only impossible to corroborate what
Miller says, but every fact In the pos
session of the officers goes to show
that he Is not telling the truth. Just
what motive the man has in making a
false confession, on the other hand, is
not altogether clear, unless he fears
term on the changing after having
made his escape twice
Miller Denied Identity.
Miller was found by Patrolman MUIR
ply talking to a woman on Henry lane
and Abercorn street. He denied that
he was an escaped convict, and several
times Murphy was tempted to release
him. A gold tooth mentioned in the
description Of Miller given to the po-
lice prompted the officer TO send the
man TO the station house. When iden-
tilted In his cell short while later by
a woman who knew him well, he adj
mitted his identity. and almost imme-
diate1y confessed to the Dean Forest
murder.
Miller was originally remanded for
burglary, but managed to get off with
twelve months on the changing. He
made his escape and was resentenced
last May. He escaped again six
weeks ago and left the convict camp
wearing the clothes of one of the
guards. He admits this, but denies that
he took a rife that II is known he got
away with. Whether his story is true
or not Miller will go down in local
criminology as the most remarkable in
dividual OF his time.