Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-07-24
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 PAROLEO
Plea of Miller Recalls Memorable Jail
 Break Here
(From Saturdays Daily.)

At a recent meeting uf the Board of
 Control. held in Phoenix. paroles were
 recommended for Louis C. Miller and
 William Connors. both serving terms
 m the Territorial pcntcntiary in Yuma
 for murders committed in this county.
 Miller has two more years to serve
 and Connors has served about five
 years of an eighteen year sentence.
 Miller it will hc remembered, was
 ono of the principals in jail break
 ncrc. Sunday May o. 1897, in which
 Attorney Lee Norris, brother of At
 torncy r. C. Norris. lost his life. While
 Miller did moi fire the fatal shot. t
 was generally conceded that he was the
 leader of the jail break and equally
 guilty of murder with James Parker. thc train rohbcr, who fired the shot tha;
 killed Norris.
 On May 2, shortly after noon. Miller.
 wno was in jail on forgery charge. called to Jailor R. w. Mcadcor, and
 asked him to allow Cornelius Sarata.
 fellow prisoner. out of the iail to secure bucket of fresh water. The Jailor allowed Sarata to get the water from n we'll underneath the steps of the north entrance of the court house. Sarata returned with the bucket If water, and while Mcadcor was engaged in opening the jail door, Sarata at. tackled him from behind. and while they were struggling Miller and Parker pushed through the door. Sarata hit Mcadeor on the head with the iail door key, inficting an ugly wound.
 During the struggle between Msadcor and Snrata, Parker ran into the jail. or's room and secured double bar. relied shot gun, loaded with bucksh,t. Attorney Norris, who was in the dis. trict attorneys office at the time, was attracted to the jail door by the iail. or's call for help. and as he reached n point near the foot of the stairway leading to the jail, Parker fired one | charge of the shotgun into his body. in. | hicting wounds from which he died be. | fore midnight.
 Miller, Parker and Sara,a made good | their escape after Jailor Meadcor had hrod three snots at them as they ran up the stairs. without effect. The escapes secured mounts in Rurner's ''very stable, then near the southeast corner of Cortez and Goodwin streets. They rode across the mountains. in the direction of Lynx Creek, pursued by ex-SheriH John l.. Munds, who was then deputy sheriff under Sheriff George Rnfner. Munds sighted the fugitives before sundown, crossing the Lynx Greek and Big Bug divide, and, al. though he was about 400 yards dis. 'ant from them, succeeded in shootin, Inc horse on which Miller and Sarata were riding, dismounting them. He fred several shots at Parker before he disappeared over the divide, mounted 'n very fleet horse, one of the bull. cts making hole in the saddle in which Parker was seated.
 Parker escaped in the darkness to he Black Hills and succeeded in mak. ng his way to Coconino county. where le was given shelter by friends, and atcr furnished with fresh mounts ie was later arrested by an Indian gent with posse of Indians, tried, , onvicted and hanged for the murder f Norris.
 Miller escaped on foot in the dircc. , Ion Of Jerome, where he later surrend. , red to his sister and brother in law, , 'no turned him over to the officers. He 'as tried and convicted of murder in ' he first degree, all of the members of [ he jury, with the exception of one, { cing in favor of the death penalty. \ 'e was sentenced to imprisonment for | 'fe, and few years later the sen. r ence was commuted to twenty years. ince his incarceration in the peniten. ary nc has studied engineering and c as secured diploma from one of the x