Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
CRIME
CHARGED To
MILLER
LIEUTENANT IN COMMAND AT
SOLDIERS HOME INDICTED
FOR BEATING AN AGED VET
ERAN.

The charges against Miller were made
by ]. G. Aubrey, another inmate of the
home, who carried the matter before the
grand jury Wednesday and secured the in
dictment against Miller.
The charges against Miller, as made by
Aubrey, are sensational in the extreme.
Aubrey alleges and says he intends to
prove that Miller attacked Brown with
heavy stick and inflicted wounds from
which Brown died in the home, that no re-
port was made on Browns death and that
no physician attended him in his illness.
Aubrey. when seen by Journal reporter
today, said:
81 entered the Soldiers home on May
9th, from Hancock county. AS soon as
came here 1 was assigned to room No. 8,
which am now occupying.
Blood Stains Found.
ION June list, D. Berger, another in
mate of the home, came to my room, and
pointed to some brood stains on the wall,
a few inches above the floor and at the
foot of the bed.
"'Do you know what those stains are2'
he asked me, and replied that did not.
That's where Miller beat old man
Brown to death few weeks ago. he told
me.
Immediately I began investigating the
matter, and I found out that Miller had
beaten the old man so that he died some
time after, without recovering from the
effects of his wounds. / reported the mat
ter to Solicitor c. D. Hill, and asked that
it be taken into the courts.
1T learned in my investigation of the
death of Brown that ne was an aged man,
50 years Of age. and very feeble, walking
on heavy stick.
ION the fourth of February a load Of
coal came to the home, and Miller, who Is
lieutenant commander at the home or
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to get the coal into the house, Captain
Wilson, the commander of the home, be-
ing out at the new home. Most of the
men responded at once, but old man
Brown said that he was not able to carry
the coal up the long flight Of stairs TO
the coal bins.
He ana Miller had a few words. and
Brown safo that he'd be damned If he was
going to carry up any coal-that he was
too old and feeble. immediately Miller
knocked him down, Brown falling on the
landing of the steps. The old man picked
himself up, and hobbled to his room, lean
ing heavily on hickory stick which he
carried.
Would "5eat Him to Death"
LAS soon as the coal was all gotten up.
Miller remarked in the presence of sew
eral witnesses that he was going up and
beat that old skunk to death, using sew
eral oaths.
MILLER walked back to the room where
Brown was, this being the same room
am now occupying. Brown had laid his
heavy stick against the wall, and was
himself standing at the foot of his bed,
when Miller entered. Miller picked up
the heavy stick and struck Brown several
severe blows. 1t is more than probable
that Brown would have been beaten to
death at the time had 1t not been that W.
r. .Clemmens, of Atlanta, and an inmate
of the home heard the blows and went in
to the room and pulled Miller out and
forced him to stop beating the old man.
Brown was Immediately taken sick,
and never left his bed, dying on the 18th
or 18th of April His body was taken to
Hilburn & Pooles undertaking establish
ment. from which the funeral occurred.
The bruises and cuts on the old man
body had not healed when he died. He
was not. at any time during his illness,
attended by physician.
IT took the matter before the grand
fury Wednesday and asked that a true
bill be found.
'T have heard that Miller was half
drunk at the time he committed the crime,
and 1 hope, for the sake of the whole
state, tnat he was not only drunk, but
crazy"
Miller. who is the lieutenant command
ing at the home, is virtually in command,
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home, being i'll at present. Miller is a
tall man with a white mustache and
goatee, ard has white hair. He is prob
ably so years of. age.
Miller has not as yet been arrested and
was seen at the home Thursday by
a Journal reporter. He willingly discuss
ed the matter, and said he was confident
that he would come clear Of the charges
against him. He admitted striking Brown
one blow stating that Brown had used
an epithet to him which he could not take
and hold his self respect.
1.-THE trouble between Brown and my
self occurred early in February, and the
records of the home show that Brown
did not die until April 18TH
1.-THE trouble between Brown and my
self occurred during the absence Of Cap
tain Wilson and 1 was in charge of the
home, being lieutenant commander: A
load of coal came into the home, and
ordered the men to go down to the street
and carry il up to the coal bins, at the
first landing of the steps. They all did
so, save Brown. l went around through
the house to see if all the men were at
work. and found Brown in the reading
room 1 told him to go down with the
rest of the men and help in carrying up
the COAL and he replied with vile cpl
tibet that he did not intend to do so. 1
had a light stick in my hand and tried to
and he jerked the stick from my hand
and began choking me. / pulled away
from him and that ended the fight
Brown did not die until April 18th, and
Doctors Armistead and Barnett, who ex-
amined him, said that he died from hem
mortgages of the lungs, and that the trou-
BILE l had with him had absolutely moth
ing to do with his death.
Aubrey did not come into the home
until after the death of Brown and knows
nothing in the world about 1t. He came
into the home to make trouble, and he
has been trying to do so ever since he
has been in here. Any of the directors Of
the home will tell you the same thing.
He knows nothing about this trouble. /
am sure nothing will be done to me-"
AUBREY'S CHARGE FALSE,
SAYS COLONEL CALHOUN
The story in The Journal of Thursday
of the indictment of G. w. Miller, lieu
tenant commanding at the Soldiers home,
charged with assault with intent TO muir
der upon ]. R. Brown, another inmate of
the home, created a great deal of excite
ment in Atlanta.
Miller was arrested Friday morning by
Deputy Sheriff Jones, and was taken to
the sheriff's office, where he was released
on a bond of $780, signed by DR.. Amos
Fox, a trustee of the home, and Miller
went back to the home. He is confident
of the result of his trial. and says tina.
his Indictment was merely the result Of
spite.
Colonel w. L. Calhoun, president of the