Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-11
TIE DETROIT TRAGEDY
Bloodstained Hatchet Found in
Possession Of the Suspect.
j. NJ. Miller.
Wound in Miss Jennett's Neck
Fit the Blade OF the
Ratchet.

Miller May Be Able to Establish
An Alibi...Details Of the
Crime.
1 Detroit April 11.-Last night Profess
so,. Ioseuh M, Miller, the music teacher
of Carrie Jennett. was under arrest ana
q ood-stained Ratchet and blood
stains on his garments may convict him
CT the murder of his pupil. William M.
Jones, who roomed at Heywood's house,
has been arrested as the murderer or
his landlord. revolver, identified by
Heywood's son as the property OF Jones,
and a hammer that fits wound on
Heywood's head, furnish the strongest
links in the evidence against Jones.
| What the police consider the strong
est link in the chain of circumstantial
evidence they are weaving around Pro-
lessor Miller, aged AZ. music teacher
and married man with family. VINO
| is accused of numbering Miss Jennett
was discovered last evening. 1t is a
blood stained Ratchet which was found
| in the drawer Of table in Mlllers
kitchen.
| Late in the afternoon Special Police
man Max Grossman, while searching
Miller's house at 1856 Eighteenth
street, discovered a small Ratchet On
its blade were blood stains, which had
been partially removed, apparently
with a damp rag. 1t was taken to
chemist, who declared the blood was
fresh, and it will be examined to see
whether it is human blood or not.
Miller was placed in the sweatbox
| last night. He was quizzed about the
hatchet, but maintained stubborn 81
Ilence, altho later he tainted wnen
shown the blood stains on the wrist
bands of his shirt.
The gashes in the dead girls neck nj
the blade Of the Ratchet The police
believe they have the last link In the
chain of circumstantial evidence sur
rounding the music teacher. They pre-
eict Miller will break down and confess.
He has changed wonderfully since the
dramatic scene shortly after he was ar
rested and maintains G>alm exterior.
Last night, after the sweatbox episode
was finished, he rolled himself IN his
blanket in his cell and quietly went to
sleep.
Miller claims that that night he at
tended meeting of the Wolverine Cir
Gle. an insurance association. In Its hall
on Baker street, and that he did not
|leaye there until II o'clock.
He said he had known Miss Jennett
for five or six years and that he had
been her music teacher. Miller's state
ment about the time he left the meet
ing is not borne out. Miller attended
the meeting or entertainment in the
Baker street hall, but others who were
there say he left the place before
o'clock. ~
Mrs. Koch, accountant for Wolverine
Lodge. P. III. c., was seen at her home
III Twentieth street.
YES, know Mr.. Miller and saw
him at the lodge last night" she said.
.There were quite a number there, but
I remember distinctly seeing him, be-
cause when he was leaving was
standing at he back of the hall and
had a conversation with him. I saw
him going out, and it was then be-
tween 10 and 10: 80 o'clock. am quite
sure 1t was 1t was no later, Possib-
ly nearer 10 than 10: 3d.
Miss Koch also remembered 1t was
shortly after 10 that Mr.. Miller left
the hall.
in fact, wondered at mis- going
home at that time" said Miss Koch.
Il knew him quite well, because
used to be one of his pupils
1T will be a shame if that man is
ever taken form theGrand River evenue
station to the JAIL said James r
Jennett, father of the murdered girl
THAT is" he added parenthetically.
"if he is the guilty man, and be-
lieve ne is
Il would head a crowd that WOULD
give the wretch what he deserves, and
l would be the first man to apply a
torch to his body. There are lots of
our friends in, this neighborhood who
feel as trongly about this matter as
do. 1t would be an easy matter to
collect a crowd that would see that
justice is done him.
But what will they do? Miller viii,
be taken to the jail; he will be tried
and sentenced. and probably for life,
when he should be made to suffer tor
lures. A better girl than my Carrie
never lived
There are signs Of mourning at he
Jennett home. which stands at the corr
ner of Hudson and Wabash avenues
The house is a two-story structure.
plainly but neatly furnished. In the
parlor, wide open, stands the piano or
which the girl used to play and which
was the means of first bringing he1
into association with the man who IL
now suspected of her murder. The
family consits of the father, mother
three sons, and daughter who is
younger than Carrie.
Carrie has ben one of the comforts
of our old age" said the father. "a
few years ago her mother was taken i'll
and since that time has not been able
to do much about the house. Carrie
has been the housekeepr. She was al
ways quiet and domestic. She had no
men friends that / know of. Miller
began giving her lessons on the piano
about five years ago. She was fond Of
music, and that way Miller began to
visit the house. Carrie was a member
of the Maccabees and of the Daughters
Of Rebekah and was the organiSt of