The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-12
PROF. MILLER'S CONFESSION
TELLS HOW HE KILLED CARRIE
 JENNETI. HIS PUPIL.
Driven to Desperation Because She Would Not Do ns He Advised -she Wished Him to Leave His Family and ltfsgrace.

Detroit, April 11.-After twenty-four hours spent in the Grand River avenue police station Professor Joseph M. Mill CT broken down to-day and confessed
 that he murdered Miss Carrie M. Jen-
 nett, one of his former pupils, last l Wednesday night, with the small hatch ct which was found in his kitchen last night with blood stains upon it. This afternoon warrant was issued for him l in the police court and he was arraign- | ed here at 4 o'clock. He waived an ex- | animation and was committed to jail 1 without bail. Tomorrow he will be | brought into the recorders court and asked to plead guilty. If he does so, | the selfconfessed murderer will be on his way to the Jackson penitentiary by Saturday noon. to spend the rest of his life.
 At first Miller denied any knowledge of the murder and later was inclined to be defiant, telling the officers that they undoubtedly thought themselves clever and he would therefore leave it to them to prove that he was guilty. But he began to weaken when he had been questioned about twenty minutes. It was then when he was being closely in terrogated by MT Hunt as to when he had last seen Miss Jennett, that he turned suddenly and sorely upon Cap tain Baker who sat where he could look the prisoner full in the face.
 Look at that man. cried the mur- derer, dropping his eyes before the steady gaze of the police captain. His eyes pierce me through and through A shudder passed over him and he hung his head from a second. Then raising it with considerable effort he glanced at Baker again and added: q guess that man has 1t about right; ask him.
 His confession is an awful story of impending disgrace and finally murder as a means of averting it. He admit ted that there had been illicit rela tions between Miss Jennett and himself for the past two years, and said it was the result of these relations that led him to kill her The girl was in a delicate condition. She refused to go to a lying in hospital as he wished her to- and de- manded that he abandon his family and leave the city with her, Wednesday
 
 the Rebekah lodge meeting to discuss her trouble and decide on some action. Miller says that Wednesday afternoon | he decided to kill her if she refused to | do as he wished, and he therefore car ried small hatchet with him to their 
 They met and walked out 18th street, | talking it over, and finally sat down on . the sidewalk. Miss Jennett renewed l her demands that Miller leave the city with her He says he told her it was but she still insisted
 By that time 1 was pretty near he said "The impulse seized me, and while she was still talking I reached into my overcoat pocket, drew put the hatchet and struck her"
 After the murder he walked to his home by the most direct route. He was arrested there the following morning.
 How many times did you strike her?" asked the prosecutor.
 T don't know" answered the prison sr.
 It is impossible to induce him to go nto the details of the butchery.
 He told of putting the hatchet back nto his pocket. of seeing his victim |, stretched upon the sidewalk in her blood and then of walking home by the most direct route.
 Reaching home he said he threw the latchet on the ground on the woodshed hat he then went to the back door of he kitchen, washed the blood off his lands. and then went into the dining oom, greeted his wife and Mrs. Shoe maker a visitor, for whom he made tea md prepared lunch, the three after yard eating and joking together. l