The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-12
NOT CONSIDEREDN NOW
OFFICERS WORKING INDEPEND-
EMILY OF MILLER.
THEY HAVE NOT STOPPED.
STILL SEEKING EVIDENCE IN
BOURQUIN CASE.

Escaped Convict Who Has interest
ed savsnnahians with Confessions
In Normal State and Under Hyp-
motto Spells Is ReIegated to the
Rear-May BE Transferred From
Police Station House to County
Jail TO-cay-NO Part of Any of His
Statements Now Credited by the
ORcers-His Motive in PersistenJIy
Lying Is still Something of a Mys-
tery-Reward Would Not Make
Officers Move Faster or Work
MISREPRESENTATION Developments
MomentariIy Expected.
Still certain that at no time has Joe
Miller told the truth in his remarkable
confessions in connection with the
murder of Gugie Bourquin and Fred
Taylor on the Dean Forest road, the
officers are not considering him in the
plan they are working out in the hope
of solving the mystery,
1t is probable that the escaped con-
vict will be committed to Jail to-day on
the warrants sworn out for burglary
and larceny in Police Court. Miller
now sticks to the story he told while
under the hypnotic influence, but the
officers insist that it is as false as the
statement he made when first arrest
ed. The negro is at this time being
given no consideration and the officers
are working Independently of any
thing that he has said.
May Consider Miller Later.
1t may be that later on, when the
case becomes more lucid, and when the
guilty persons are behind the bars, the
officers will devote some attention TO
Miller and for their own satisfaction
ascertain why he has so persistently
lied. There may and there may not be
a reason for his lying, and the officers
would like to satisfy their curiosity by
ascertaining just how the escaped con-
vict got mixed up in the tragedy. In
the meantime Miller sticks out that
Sapp was his moving spirit and guided
him from the Ogeechee road across
country to the Louisville road.
Miller was not taken from his cell
yesterday, and there were no hypnotic
exhibitions. 1t was decided to cut out
the mesmerism for a day at least
These performances have gone towards
making the Bourquin-T Taylor case the
most remarkable in the history of the
county. Nothing like it was ever at
tempted before. The fact that the ne
gro while hypnotized drove through
the crowded streets, as. told exclusively
in the Morning News, without a mis-
hap was generally discussed yesterday
The value of occult influences in solv-
ing crime has been argued on all sides
and no single criminal case has ever
aroused as much interest in Savannah.
Well HypnOtized.
The physician who was in charge had
his subject well under control and Mil
Ter did not once balk at anything that
he was told to do. That he was in
reality hypnotized and was not assim-
Hating was shown in the experiments
made with him before the real tests
began. Had the convict resisted the
power of the physician at the first Sc
ance nothing could have been accom-
plished. 1t happened that at the time
Miller was suffering with a headache
and readily consented to the hypnotic
treatment, believing that he would be
cured. He refused to credit the
assertion that he did all manner Of
queer things while under the SPELL
While nothing of any moment was
done yesterday sensational develop
ments are momentarily expected. The
ofering of a reward for the arrest of
the guilty persons would not change
the situation. The officers have lone
and are doing all within their power to
run the guilty persons to cover. and if
fortune were hung up they could
move no faster or work no harder.