The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-16
DESERTED HIS WIFE
n. MILLER LEFT HIS FAMILY IN
DESTITUTE CONDITION.
HE BORROWED MONEY FIRST.
LEFT ONLY 10 CENTS FOR WIFE
AND FIVE CHILDREN.

Police and Detectives Have Search
ed In Vain for Russian Cigarmalz-
err, who Has Cruelty Deserted
Wife and ChiIdren-Had Tobacco
in Railroad Warehouse and Sc
cured 800 TO Get 1t Out-This with
other Money He POcketed and Left
for Parts UnknOwn-MiIIer Came
to Savannah From south America
and During Frequent Drunken De-
bauches Spent His Hard Earned
Cash LavishIy.
After making three years of his wife's
life a miserable existence. because of
frequent drunken debauches. during
which he spent all of his money, B.
Miller. a Russian cigarmaker of No.
% Broughton street, east, has left her
with five children in destitute circum-
stances.
Gathering together all the money he
could lay his hands on, Miller made his
departure Monday. and the efforts of
detectives and patrolmen to discover
his whereabouts have so far been with
out success. The cigarmaker came to
Savannah eleven years ago from
South America, and in the opinion of
the officers he has left for foreign soil
Quiet Investigations have been going
on since he left the city. but his dis
appearance is as complete as if he had
left the earth.
Left Is Cents.
Miller left Is cents in the cash draw
err in his cigar store, and but for aid
from some of her relatives, Mrs. Mil
Ter and her children would have suf-
fered from hunger. He was engaged
in making cigars and a consignment of
tobacco, with bill of lading attached
arrived from New York Monday Mil
Ter didn't have the money to get the
tobacco from the railroad and explain
ed his trouble to a friend, into whose
confidence he had worked himself In
this way the cigarmaker managed to
borrow $780, ostensibly for the purpose
of getting the tobacco from the rail-
road. He went to his wife and Sc
cured from her about 500 that she had
managed to save. telling her that he
wanted it to get the tobacco from the
warehouse. Miller next visited the
cash drawer in his little store, and
raked out about ST. He left Is cents,
claiming that sum was sufficient to
make change.
borrowed All He Could
Miller had probably planned to de-
sert his wife and children and had per-
NIT a6 &c CO. IT.
point where they were worth only SO
or 81 He had 500 cheap cigars, valued
at 81, in stock and endeavored with
out success to borrow IS on them from
neighboring saloon keeper. When
he had got together all the money
that he could find, he left saying that
he would get the tobacco and return
in short while. He never reached
the railroad station where the tobacco
was on storage.
When her husband did not return
Mrs. Miller became worried and call
ed in the police and detectives Used
as she was to his drunken orgies she
imagined that he was on a spree and
squandering her hard earned money,
and that which he had borrowed from
his friend. With his many faults the
woman loved him and the thought
never occurred to her that she might
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life with her children. Often she had
called upon the police to pull her hus-
band from some dive where intoxi-
Gated he spent his money. Because of
these drunken acts he became we'll
known in police circles.
Miller lived with his family at the
Broughton street address, and Mrs.
Miller is still there with her children.
With the handful of cigars and tobac-
co that her husband left behind the
distressed woman is trying to make a
start on her own account 1t is her
intention to continue the business II
possible ad thus support her children.
Mrs. Miller is a native of Hungary, but
married in Savannah