Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-11-05
GOLD DUST THIEF
 IS HIGH F|NANC|ER

"Bobbie Miller, the debonair little chap who, two years ago, exchanged q couple of dollars worth of bird shot for SG0, ,000 worth of gold bricks on a Tauana river steamboat is again in Seattle after an eighteen months so- journ on McNeil's Island and six weeks in Fairbanks.
 Millcr's eighteen months on the Is- land was by way of earning $19,OOO, also in geld bricks, and his most re- cent trip into Fairbanks was for the purpose of collecting the money.
 When Miller took the fortune in gol" bricks, which was lying around kind of loose and ~arclcss like on the deck of th" steamboat Panama, he didn't dc it. with an idea that he could go away with it. On the con. t""ry, Ho knew he would be caught.
 With Miller il was business, not burglary. He had planned the deal before he went intn Alaska, and when he asked for "uG secured the position of night wa;:Hmnn CT the steamboat he vas merely carrying out the pre- liminarirs to his essay into the realms of higher finance.
 When hia chance came and he switched ammunition for gold dust and hid the dust .A his bunk he was merely consistently pIr+uing his plan to i,a l"@irI conclusion. As stated before. Ar knew a r .ull hr caught. Thor. r. mu cha" {. ior a ''.tv. away" in Alas,lp III Ac @.sir.d wa, that he be caught after hc had got his bricks clear of ta, ..ip and safely cached.
 Milcr's plans worked out as he had laid them. iIo made nis way from the strumh.aD, md with him went the bricks. Some ol ,hcm-S5O, ,OO0 wor,I-h" cached under warehouse on the thcnoa River The balance 9IJ,uU' wor,n--hr cachci somewhere rlsr, wu"r, oi.ly himself knows.
 Then Inc au~ caught and his case established a, tho record in the crim- ina} annals "1 either Alaska or Yu- I,or.
 i, "", after he WAS taken that Mil irr's extraordinary business ability wa. damons.r.trd. The bIicEn he Aar ,alrH hriougrd 70 the banks of FaWnmis~. They were comsig:.cd to Ca" -.".".i 1.,,. in .5'",.!v "Ho ,hcir
 ".n.N 5n ,I"u-,, Wan assured h> all iUsur"1cr company. Their value was d greater ~um than the banks could afford lo lose, or the insurance com pauy afford |" pay, which was pre- ciscly what Miller mad figured.
 MiIIcr "ae assured that he would get jhc nearest thing 10 a life sen tou"o tha, }hr Alaskan court had con n.aIrd about tI.
 "AIt riRrt,' smiIcd Miller. "No hrtn,:s."
 IH" haHEs, the insurance company Wud the officers of the law threatened, cajolcd, prayed and did other things, bat Miller smiled them off until they were ready 10 talk business. Then Miller made his terms.
 After short dicIicring he offered to swap S5O,OO0 worth of the bricks for q two years sentence. Tho banks wanted thc other $I9, ,OoO, but DO in- duccmcnt which they could hold out to Miller moved him. He had figured that a. his nome atakc and he says himsCu he would have taken the linn it before he would have SO far thrown down the magnificent financial struc- turc he had erected.
 In the end it was as he made it. He was given two years and led the Uni ted States marshal and q squad of worried bankers across the Chenoa and told them where to dig. They found their share and Miller was talk cn to thc government penitentiary, where, by model conduct, he cut down his time to eighteen months.
 Then he went into Fairbanks, trailed