The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-08

The shot that killed him was fired
| through a screen of brush from behind
| huge log beside the road, as Miller
| drove past
Miller's death was an end in keeping
with his rough life. He was a man
who boosted of his own viciousness.
He had killed men and he Dragged OF
| it. He threatened to kill others
should they cross his will. The COM
munity in which he lived knew MIN as
a desperate man and feared him. Not
a word of regret for his death can be
heard about Brinnon.
Millers body was found yesterday
evening by Fred Carlson, lying beside
the road, where it had fallen from his
cart. A bullet had entered his left jaw
and torn it's way out through the right
eye.
Carlson was driving Miller's cart
home. The day before the horse
drawing the empty cart had appeared
at the ranch of Clinton Pierce, who
supposed Miller would soon follow, but
he did not. Pierce yesterday sent
Carlson back with the cart.
Miller left his house about o'clock
Saturday afternoon to do some work
on the road. 1t is supposed that he
,at hi h hut fo1 ST.
Hidden Behind Log.
Behind a huge log beside the road
the brush and ferns were found
broken down. A man had concealed
himself there and had remained some
time, waiting for the approach of his
victim. The brush. which grew up in
front of MIN, screened him perfectly
from the road, and it is probable that
Miller never knew of his impending
death or what it was that killed him.
Miller's life and record are most un-
savory. The name of the man who
killed him will probably never come to
the attention of the officers of the law.
If anyone in Brinnon knows it he will
keep it to himself.
1t was Miller's delight to boast of
the fact that ne had been an outlaw
in Missouri and that he had in cold
blood murdered two men. He never
endeavored to conceal these two
crimes, but gloried in them. He
would bring the subject up whenever
possible, whether it was appropos of
anything in particular or not. These
stories of his past life are believed
but it is thought that in Missouri his
name was not Miller.
Millers mind was vicious and his
talk was vile. 1t was some years ago
at Brinnon while in a group of men
that Miller made an indecent remark
about a young woman neighbor. Jack
| Marinhoff, young logger, volunteer
| ing the information that ne didn't
like Miller's style of talk, proceeded to
punch him.
AssaiIant Is Killed.
The next day Marinhoff was shot
| and killed near Clinton Pierce's ranch.
Miller killed him. There was on wit
| ness present, Miller's son Lawrence.
At the trial both Millers testified that
Marinhoff had made a move to draw a
revolver
| After, the trial Miller's son left him,
vowing that ne would have nothing
more to do with his father, although
he had stood by him at the trial. It
has been common talk that Marinhoff
was deliberately murdered by Miller
and that the son perjured himself as
duty that he owed mis- parent.
Since the killing of Marinhoff mes
sages have been arriving at intervals
from the dead mans friends All have
been of the same general tone, that
some day they would come to Brinnon
and that they would come for a single
purpose, to avenge Marinhoff's murder.
When the first news of Milier's death
was received the thought that occurred
to everyone was that Marinhoff's
friends had arrived. They have not
been seen in the vicinity however, and
1t is now generally believed that Miller
met death by other hands
Miller was coward. He had slain