The sun., 1905-12-04
GIRL SHOT DEAD; MAN GONE,
me- FIRST REGGED HER TO SAY
she SIOT HERSELF.
r,,,y Morning Tragedy In Little Rear
tl,t Police say L0ttic Miller Free
olrn,ch the TcnderlOln Lad She Lived
Vun A Telephone clerk k-.Loye Letters.

,InttIn Miller" as she was known about
,ho 1cnIerlon, IS dead with bullet through
her heart. The poll OF the East Fifty
n,.t street station, dctccu es from the
,..p,raI Oncc and oroner Scholer arc
cory anyio,.t find Roy l.. Miller, youth
nrtwenly ynars, who lived with tn young
woman n two looms on the third floor
,oar Of fiat house at 1870 East Forty-thrd
s,tn,t and who was with her when she
was shot
Miller he'd cen emploved for a month
asa telephone operator at the Hotel Man
haitian. He la charge e tho exchange
couuoctin the various rooms and de-
rartmcnts of the establishment. He had
iire to say to the other employees and
vo. locked upon a. something Of sport
He and the dead woman went to live
In the rooms on Forty-third street about
three weeks ago, They both went in and
out n, all hours of the day and night and
M one in the house knew them. About
ah o'clock yesterday morning Horace M.
uedlrn, travelling salesman living on
,be same floor, was aroused by loud knock
inc on his door. He hesitated about open
inc il and asKed who was ere and what
was want d.
.ror Cod, sake" came the reply, there's
come ono shot out here and nee help
HcdGen oponcd the door, and before it
stood Miller. fully dressed. He led the way
10 his rooms, and stretched out on the floor
beside the dining room table was the woman,
who was holding her hand tightly to her
left breast and breathing heavily.
According to Hedden, Miller kneeled
down le,ide the woman and in pleading
tones urged her to say that she had shot
herself
Tell this man that you did it," Hedden
eavs Miller begged, "and tell him quick"
80 reply came from the woman, how
ever, and Hedden hurried across the street
and notified Dr.. Joseph F. Mccarthy of
ls7 East Fory-third street, The physician
was in bed and he told Hedden that he had
better look for a policeman and have an
ambulance summoned while he, the doc
tor, got into his clothes.
Hedden saws he searched the entire neigh
borhood for policeman, but could not find
one He finally made his way to the police
station in the basement Of the Grand Gem
tral Station and got Policeman Reynolds
to accompany him to the house, after
the sergeant in charge had summoned an
ambulance from the Flower Hospital.
The policeman, Hedden, Dr.. Mccarthy
and the ambulance surgeon reached the
house at about the same time. The woman
was dead and her companion was nowhere
10 I've seen. Mr. Heddeu's family, who had
lecn aroused and we're in and out OF the
hallway at frequent intervals, didn't see
HIN depart.
Some few hours later Coroner Scholer
arrived at the house and ordered the body
removed to the MorGue where an autopsy
will be performed this morning by Coroner's
Physician Leblanc The woman like Miller.
was full" dressed The revolver had been
held o close to her breast that her silk
wais, and rhemsc were burned for several
inches around the spot where the ball had
entered The bullet came from a ch ap
bulldog revolver Of 32-calibre. 1t lay on
the floor beside the woman's body and only
on o The six cartridges had been ex-
ploded No one in the house heard the
shot
The police ard the Coroner have nothing
to prove that the case is anything but sui
eide, Aut ihe sudden disappearance Of Miller
has caused suspicion to rest on him and
he vii be arrested on sight as suspicious
person
Miller received only s32. 80 a month at the
hotel Notwithstanding this. he always
had more or less money and wore good
clothes. The pair paid $3.50 a week for
their rooms. According to Sergt. Ennis
Of the East Flfty-frst street station, who
has seer much duty in the Tenderlon, and
also according to Detective Sergeant John
fjannely. who was detailed on the case
from the Central Office, the woman was a
freQuentcr Of the dives that flourish on
Iwenty-ninth street just west of Broad
way.
Many letters found in her trunk show
that during the past year she has lived
in at least half dozen different places
and had many admirers, who wrote love
letters to her long and often. Her largest
supply Of correspondence came from "Ar-
thur, who is some sort of vaudeville per-
former His last letter was dated late in
tie summer and shows plainly that he and
the woman had disagreed.
From the letters found in the rooms
Coroner Scholer is convinced that the
woman's name. Lottie Miller, was an as
slmed one. The Coroner thinks that it is
likely that she ia Nellie Brod and hailed
originally from the mining region in Penn
sylyania. She had sister Mrs. Thomas
Hall Of Lattimer Mines, Pa, a mining
town near Hazleton, and many letters
addressed TO Nellie Brod, care OF Mrs.
Hall, We're found. The letters also show
That the woman spent some time with Mrs.
han during period Of convalescence fol-
owing an operation.
Detectives Summers and Conroy OF the
East fitty-drst street station say they
found woman friend Of the dead woman
and that this friend is authority for the
statement that the latter expected to leave
.he city to-day to spend some time with
her sister in Pennsylvania and that on
saturday she had been touring the depart
men' st res purchasing presents for her
sisters children.
inns story has led the police to theorize
u'a' Miller may have killed her during a
quarrel growing out of tho fact that the
woman was about to leave him. Just