The Cairo bulletin., 1906-06-23
IN A PLOT
TO COMMIT ALL
GRIMES
REVEALED AT PRELIMINARY
HEARING OF A GANG OF
BOY BURGLARS.
One WAS A MURDERER
eoys Had Planned to Establish An
AIihi and Fool the Officers
Two Boys Have Made a
Confession.

Wooster, Ohio, June 22-~At a pre-
liminary hearing before Probate Judge
Orr today of William Everhart and
Allan Miller, two of the Alliance boys
who are accused of killing Thomas
Dye. at Orrville, last April attorneys
for the two boys demanded that a
written confes ion made by Everhart
and Harry White, who complete the
! trio of supposed murderers, be pro-
| duced by the prosecuting attorney
The prosecutor refused and was
sustained by the court, but the much
| revealed and he admitted at the close
Of the hearing that he was in posses
| ion of a document ;hat shows Allan
| Miller to be the murderer of Dye, and
that the theee bows had committed
other crimes at Alliance and else
where before Dye was shot. Dye, IA
years old. was hot in the back while
walk'n along the Wheeling railroad
tracks,
According to the story OF Whi'e and
!
a car of Hungarians VINO were lo1gei
linear where Dye was mp-Gere1, at the
suggestion of Miller. Dyes appearance
on the scene was regarded az an intru'
sion puni liable by death.
Miller commanded Dye TO halt DYE
not needing received a bullet in the
back which passed through his body
Three days before the murder OF
Dye, so the confession goes, White
Miller and Everhart held up and rob.
Ibqd citizen OF Alliance Of $40 Since
fl4ae5I all fii6nds of EhA HzyE Assvs
refunded this money, and Il Is said
Ihave induced the Alliance man to re-
main silent over the affair. Other
crimes are limited at. If Whites story
Is 10 be believed the three boys were
bound together by bloOd-curdling
4 oaths in a pact that held up until the
time Of their arrest welded over the
minds Of each something of the power
of a vendetta
Prosecuting Attorney Carlin admits
only the substance of the written con
fes.ions. but in one place White Is al
legged to have said:
"Our plan was to rob in a peaceful
way If possible. but the gun was to be
used whenever victim showed fight.
Another story Of the boy admits that
the Dye affair was straight Out-and
out hold-tIp: that he was regarded as
better game than the carload of Huns
and that when be did no. heed the
command TO halt the bullet fired by
Miller brought him down for purposes
of booty.
No money was ecurcd fFOm Dye
clothing and the three boys dragged
him up the bank and covered the
corpse up with g~ass ana dead leaves.
In court Everhart ami Miller as
sumed Indifference. Miller. who +.
scarcely 20 years of age, wreathe1 hi,
mouth in a sneer at quos ions ad-
dressed to the state. witnesses by the
prosecuting attorney. When Coroner
Charles Earring told how he cut open
the skin and picked the bullet from
the breast of Dye with hi, fingers Mil
Ter passed wink 10 ENerbart who re
sponded with a grin. Mothers Of the
two boys sat by their side. Attorneys
w. NJ. Rooch and n. C. Kochlar. OF Al
lance who represented Miller and
Everhart, hoped to have the often q
graded by the court 20 that bail 70.
the two boys could be given. Judge
Orr refused this plea and held The
boys as probably guilty of murder in
the first degree until such time as the
lgrand jury can act upon the case.
Riley Dru,hsl, marshal of Orrvlle
and James Side, a railroad detect We,
who arrested the three bows. testifi ID
that White showed dispo-i'ion "a
confess when first arrested. Both Mil
Ter and himself had been previously
advised by Everhart Of a scheme
whereby the three could establish an
alibi and fool the officers.