The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-12
SLAYER TELLS ALL
MUSIC TEACHER ADMITS MURDER
OF YOUNG GIRL ON STREETS
OF DETROIT
CARRIES A RATCHET TO KILL
Deed Was Deliberately Planned, He
Confesses, and Weapon Was PUr-
DoseIy Taken With Him
to Trysting Place.

DETROIT, Mich, April 11.-After twen-
ty-four hours spent in the Grand River
avenue police station, Prof Joseph NJ.
Miller broke down today and confessed
that he murdered Mss Carrie M. Jennett,
one of his former pupils, last Wednesday
night, with the small Ratchet which was
found in his kitchen last night WI blood
stains upon it. This afternoon warrant
was issued for him in the police court
and he was arraigned there at o'clock.
He waived an examination and was COM
mitted to iail without bail. Tomorrow he
will be brought into the recorders court
and asked to plead guilty. If he does
so, the self-confessed murderer will be
on his way to the Jackson penitentiary
by Saturday noon, to spend the rest of
his life.
His confession is an awful story of inn
pending disgrace and finally murder as
a means of averting it, Miller said that
he was responsible for the condition OF
the girl. He said he offered to send Miss
Jennett to a hospital, but she refused
to go, insisting that he leave his family
and go to some Otner city with her. This
he would not do.
Wednesday night when he started from
home for the lodge meeting he had an en-
gagement with the girl and intended to
kill her He took the Ratchet that was
found by the officers yesterday in his
kitchen with him. He secreted this on
his way to the nesting.
Kept Hatchet to Commit Murder.
When he left the lodge rooms he Sc
cured the Ratchet again and proceeded
TO Fourteenth and Warren avenues where
he met Miss Jennett. They walked over
to Thirteenth street and out to where the
murder was committed.
Miller says they sat down on the side
walk and talked for a while, the girl
urging him to abandon his family and
>eave the city with her.
He then drew out the Ratchet and
struck her on the head.
When asked why he mutilated the body
of his victim, Miller said he had no recOl-
lection of anything after the first blow
until he found himself wiping the blood
off his Ratchet on the grass in the
vacant lot.
Describing what passed between them
as they sat on the sidewalk in the lonely
spot on Thirteenth street Miller said:
she wanted me to go out of town
with her and leave my family. she was
stubDorn-she would not agree to any
thing reasonable.
She said she would consent to but one
thing, and that was that l go away with
her. By this time l was pretty near
crazy. The impulse seized me and Whine
she was still talking 1 reached into my
L,
and struck her.
How many TINES did you strike herr"
asked the prosecutor.
4 don't know" answered the prisoner.
1t was impossible to induce him to go
into details of the butchery.
He told of putting the Ratchet back in
his pocket, of seeing his victim stretched
upon the sidewalk in blood, and then Of
his walking home by the most direct
route.
Reaching home he said he threw the
Ratchet on the ground in the woodshed,
that he then went in the back door of the
kitchen, washed the blood off his hands,
and then going into the dining room
greeted his wife and Mrs. Shoemaker, a
visitor, for whom he made tea and pre-
pared a lunch, the three afterward eat
ing ana joking together.
New Proofs of Crime.
A thorough search of the Haywood
premises was made today by the officers
who are investigating the murder Of
George H. Haywood.
VIM. ii. Jones, who roomed in Hey
woods house, is under arrest on suspi-
cion.
1t is the theory of the officers that
Jones went down the back stairs to the
cellar. out the rear cellar door to the al
ley, then across the lot to the barn, where
tim. According to this theory Jones must
have walked through the ashes of the al
ley. Among Jones clothing was found a
pair Of shoes, the soles and heels of
which were thc6ly coated with ashes.
In a niGhtshirt which Jones wore the
officers found a handkerchief with dis
tinct bloodstajns on it. With this he
might have wiped the head of the ma
chinists hammer which was found in his
room and which fitted perfectly the hole
in HeyWoOd's forehead
Jones still maintains his cool demeanOr
LINCOLN, Neb., April 11.-Charles Ry-
mer a suburban farm hand, who accom-
panied William Jones to Detroit from
Lincoln, and was his partner there, told
the police this evening that Jones had
threatened in his presence to kill George
H. Haywood.
He told me just before 1 left De-
troit' said Rymer, mot to be surprised
if I heard Haywood had been pushed into
the river
Rymers recital to the police, which was
sensational throughout, implicated a
woman in the alleged conspiracy with
Jones against Haywood. Rymers record
in Lincoln was good.