New-York tribune., 1902-04-11
GIRL FOULLY BUTCHERED
STABBED. THROAT CUT, NECK BROKEN
AND HEAD BATTERED IN DE-
TROIT STREET.

Detroit April l0.-What the police consider to
be a strong link in the chain Of circumstantial
evidence that they are weaving about Professor
Joseph ". Miller. a music teacher and a married
man with a farnily who is under arrest on sus-
picion of brutally numbering Miss Carrie NJ.
Iennett on Thirteenth-st., just before midnight
last night was discovered this evening
It is a bloodstained hatchet which was found
IN the drawer of a table in Miller's kitchen.
There is now the following circumsta ntial evil
dance against Professor Miller. who the
girls music teacher, and had paid her such
marked attentions that her father had asked
him to keep away from the house. When he
WIS examined at the police station this morning
what are supposed to be bloodstains were found
on his shirt sleeves. his trousers. shoes, hat and
overcoat: a towel was discovered in his kitchen
with what are supposed to be bloodstains on it
When he was asked for an explanation of the
stains on his clothing he gave none.
Miss Jennett. who twenty-five years DID,
ana who would have become a mother in few
months was most brutaly done to death Just
before u O'Clock last night She felled by
q terrific blow on the head, which broke her
neck. and her throat cut from ear TO ear.
A blow from some instrument made hole in the
middle Of the forehead. and behind her left ear
was a deep stab wound evidently made by the
same instrument that used to cut her throat
In addition 20 these CHASTITY wounds, a heavy
blow had been struck on the side of her face.
fracturng the cheekhone. Her mutflated body
was taken to the morgue, where IT was identified
1his morning.
Miss Jennett left her home last evening to
attend a meeting of the Rebekah Lodge, Of
which she was a member. She left the meeting
about 10 o'clock. and was not seen again alive
Her parents were alarmed at her absence, and
when they heard Of the murder became fearful
that it might be their daughter. Mr. Jennett
hurried to the morgue. and there identified the
Inutilated body.
The police were working on the case. and
questioned him about the girl. He told them
Of her infatuation for Professor Miller. and the
teacher was placed under arrest Miller took
the situation very cooliy when he was examined
at the station Nothing could be learned from
questioning him. He ordered to take on
his clothes, and the shirt the police founo
bloodstairs Miller offered no explanation OF
them. More stains were found other gar
r7ents Miller still maintained absolute silence
as 10 them. L then decided TO lock MIN
I'D. While he was being registered on the blot
ter the music teached collapsed and tainted.
He was revived. only to faint again as the OIL
GERS conducted him 10 a cell.
Miller left his house last evening to attend
lodge meeting in Baker-st.. and returned about
II 20 o'clock, apparently cool and unolslur @ peu.
He alleges that he did not leave the e fleelIile
rnru II O'clock but several persons who We're
there say that he left between 10 ana w.
O'clock The murder committed at Il:oo
o'clock as near the officers can learn 1t
would have been possible for Miller 10 go from
the hall in Raker-sI. to the scene of the CRIME IN
twenty minutes. This demonstrated TO-
night by reporter who made the trip in SIX
teen minutes. From the location OF the crime
"a Nfiller's home is a comparatively short walk.
Tonight Miller lie sleeping like child in the
Grand River-ave. police station. While the police
think they have strong circumstantial evidence
AGAINST the suspect, they admit that they are
stii far short Of enough to convict him Of the
murder.
The blade and handle Of the bloodstatned
hatchet found this afternoon had been washed.
hut there were still stains on the cia Whamhler
e,5 Of the instrument and on the handle where
II ioius the head. II is the theory of the ponce
mar the faint bloodstains the towel found
in the kitchen came from the hatchet when
was v-ired on il after IL had been washed. The
batchet was shown TO Miller this evening, but
he made no comment on IL.