Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-27
AN ARREST MADE.
Suspicious Character is Now
 Locked Up At Bristol.
MAY BE MILLER's AssAILANT.

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 Yesterday-The Man Arrested Says
 That He Belongs in Hartford and
 That His Name Is Kelly Says, He
 Spent Yesterday in Farmington-ls
 Held for Identification.
 Bristol, Jan 27.-A man suspected of being the highwayman who shot and robbed Edward Miller, the peddler of Waterbury, was arrested at Plainyille by Acting Chief of Police Belden. He answers to the description of the high wayman which has been sent out. He is now locked up in Bristol awaiting Identification. He says his name is stephen Kelly. is g years of age and belongs in Hartford. Says he was in Pennington over Sunday His shoes are wet and muddy. He was discov- cred loitering about the depot about noon time.
 A cold blooded attempt at murder and robbery occurred between Water vile and Reynolds Bridge yesterday The robbery part of the program was 6 success. The victim was Edward Miller, a Hebrew peddler of Water bury.
 Herbert Case, a young man of Flute vllle, while driving along the highway Just south of Reynolds Bridge saw man lying on the road in d pool of blood, which was flowing from q wound in the head. He hurried to the man and sent in a call for Dr G. ID. Ferguson, medical examiner of Thomaston. Upon his arrival the wounded man was taken to the Water bury hospital, where it was learned that his condition was serious.
 The place where Miller's body was found is one of the most uf1frequented spots in town Close by are two buildings, one known as the haunted house and the other road house known as the s'Chicken Farm Medi- cal Examiner Ferguson notified the Waterbury police.
 4 silver dollar was the only article of vallre found in the pockets of the wounded man. The bullet which was fired by his assailants entered back of the angle of the right eye and came out through the top of the head, leav- ing q hole large enough to allow the brains to ooZa out. As yet the author ities have made no arrests.
 Upon hearing news of the assault q large number of Thomaston citizens assembled under tie leadership of Deputy Sheriff Kaufman and Con- stable Killner They started to look for Millers 4assailant. The police are confident that there was but one man connected with the crime. William Halpin, who lives on the Plymouth Hill road, reported that he saw a team answering the description of Miller's driven towards Terryvil1e Ny a tall and smooth-faced man. The police are watching all the roads.
 Bristol, Jan 27-The horse and team belonging to Miller, the peddler who was assaulted between Waterbury and Thomaston yesterday, was driven here yesterday afternoon, and about 4 o'clock the horse was hitched in front of Mir Kelligher's house on South street A good view of the driver was not obtained, but he was seen to run down the hill towards the trolley line and it is supposed he took car to New Britain. The team was put up in livery stable.
 Thomaston. Conn, Jan 27.-The in
  of Edward Miller, the Waterbury ped dler, who was found in an apparently dying condition just south of Reynolds Bridge on the highway between here and Waterbury yesterda yafternoon, has been continued vigorously and carefully by the county and town aE- thorities to-day. Coroner Higgins came from Winsted this morning to assist Medical Examiner Ferguson in the inquiry which was started yeSter- day, and Sheriff Kaufman and Con- stable Kilner have been busy all day In the search for the assailant. The latter Is believed to have driven the peddler's team from the scene of the crime to Bristol, where he boarded a trolley car to New Britain.
 William Butler and Russell McBir ney, both of Thomaston, are thought to have been the last persons to see the peddler before he was attacked. They were driving to Waterbury from Thomaston yesterday afternoon and passed Miller on the road near the Frost bridge. A little beyond that place they passed a man going towards ThomastOn, and it is thought possible that this man was Afiller's assailant The description they give corresponds W1LQ IQdC gwen Dv W lllldIH 11dlpDl, who lives on the Plymouth Hill road and saw the peddler's covered wagon driven past his house with the horse at a gallop late in the afternoon. Hal pin says that the side doors of the ve- hicle were swinging open. The driver was small slim man with q smooth face and wore whlte handkerchief around his turned up coat collar. It is believed that the man drove along the range of hills passing around Ply mouth to bristol. A report received here from Bristol says that the man was seen to hitch his horse there and board trolley car.
 The load of goods which Miller car ried in his wagon weighed probably q ton, and all of it was thrown out by the assailant as he drove furionslg away from the scene of his deed. All along the highway portions of the load have been picked up, together with torn bits of checks on the Fourth Ma fional Bank of Waterbury, where Mil Ter did business.
 The finding of Miller's skullcap and soft hat by the side of the road close to the spot where he was found is be- lfeyed to be evidence that there was struggle before he was overpowered, for although he was wounded in flse