The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-13
HIS FRIENDSHIPS PAID him
SOMETIME AMHERST STUDENT
FOND or BORROWING RINGS.
Former Oeta theta pi Pawned His Own
xnd Others Things Owes Bills at
Restaurants and Hotels Here aud
Eisewhere -B,an,es New York Fever.

E,sewhere -Blames New York Fever.
young man who gives his name as
John Townsend Miller and says his grand
father. John Miller, was once president.
and his father. John Francis Miller. once
secretary Of Dire insurance company
In Wall street. was arrested yesterday
afternoon al Thirty fourth street and
Sixth avenue on charge of grand larceny |
made by Alice Johnson. bookkeeper.
Of ~ West Eleventh street. Miss johnson |
says that Miller borrowed u watch from |
her on March Is and failed 10 return IL.
She valued the watch at sloo Al Po.ce |
Head, quarters Millers pockets revealed
a stack Of pawn tickets AMI he proceeded
20 tell abou. them. Jewelry belonging
to other women than Miss johnson figured
in his story
Miller Gays he is ?? years old and has
been living In a boarding house kept
by Mrs Sarah Waters. where Miss johnson
lived. His parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Francis Miller. he says live at ~ Snowden
place. Ridxefeld. n The son says
he was a student at Amherst for year
and some months, leaving college about
two years ago While In Amherst he says
no was a member of Beta Theta pi Since
leaving college he says he has been study
ing medicine. "off and on" and that about
the Roosevelt and other hospitals where
he was known he has been called Doc
His father. he Gays. retired from busi-
ness for a time and then took place
with the Lincoln Trust Company. Later
he gave this up. His mother. with an
income OF her own. kept the son supplied
with spending money. Recently. how
ever. she has provided only enough for real
necessities. For two years past. he says.
he has been associating with persons
whom he ought not to have known. His
mother got him out Of several scrapes
before she finally gave him up. y got
the New York fever" was the way he
summed up the cause OF his troubles.
At first he pawned what he could OF his
own property and then. he says. he began
pawning the property Of others.
Here are the articles called for by the
pawntickets found in Miller's pockets
and the amounts he got on them: Ring,
$3.50: pin. 50 cents; diamond pin. 81; UNI
brella. 81; suitIs4; gold pin. q; pin and ring.
%: silver cigarette case. g; suit. Mp;
diamond ring. $40; gold ring. 81; pin. 81 so.
gold chain. q; pin. -: watch chain. -;
diamond scarfpin. 81; ring. $3.50; pair OF
skates. 90 cents; diamond pin. SIS; gold
watch. out Of order. -; diamond ring,
$40. diamond ring. Is; diamond ring. $40.
-Four Of the articles enumerated. accord
ing to Miller, never belonged TO nim and
were borrowed from various women. or
theae he says the ring on which he got
$3.50 is owned by Miss Dorothy Posner Of
SOL West Ninety second street. Miller
says that he met Miss Posner in Atlantic
City last simmer while he was at the resort
with his parents. He did not see her again,
he saws, until April ! when in motor with
a party OF friends he met Miss Posner and
a party in another machine in Central Park
West The two machines we're stopped
and he SAYS he climbed into the machine
with MiSs Posner and her friends and con-
ltnued the ride with them. He noticed a
large diamond and emerald ring on Miss
Posner's finger and says that al his request
she allowed him TO take it ITO wear it a few
days. He did wear it a few days and
then pawned it on April :. The ring he
saws is worth about 81. 800.
Miller says he got other rings from a
Miss Miller. who. he said, was chief tele.
phone operator at the Grand Central
Station. and a Miss Butler a nurse a,
Roosevelt Hospital. He said that he
also went to Jim Churchill, proprietor
OF Ch,irchill's restaurant. and told him
that friends had just staked him to d
, poultry farm and that he was going tt
| settle down and raise chickens. On thu
strength OF this story. he says. he wal
able to run up bill OF 1922 .s4 at the res
/ taurant. He says that Mr.. Churchill
, wrote his father about the incident. bu
| that 30 far as he knows the bill has no
been paid He saws he also owes none,
r to the Bellevue -Stratford in philadelphia
and the Hotel Victoria. New York. an,
4 that he managed to accumulate IA bill o
4 $40 or $50 at Rect or's. all of which ar
r still owing.
. Tuesday evening. the last before hi
arrest. Miller said he had spent with
y. principal Of a Broa dway musical comedy
and he said that he had many acqnaint
y ances in other shows.
i
: gave Miller the ring three weeks ago. O.
. he had admired it and wanted 10 have
~ copy made Miss Butler tho Roosevelt
. . nurse, said that she had met Mille- th"oug
!, a patient at the hospital and that hc ha
suggested TO hN' thet he would have nc
ring repaired Sho gao tho ring 10 hin
she said and he'd soon n"iih"'' him no
tho ring since,
y At the Beta Theta Pi Club losi night
II was said that Miller had been a membe
/. OF that fraternity while a student in Am
; herst where he was also 4 member of IN
I cl,ss Of 1910. He had been expellc
L from the fraternity, however, by th
e board OF trustees on February Q. 1911.
@ Employees Of Roosevelt Hospital sal
10 last night that a number OF persons In
called up on the telephone asking fo
v "Dr. Miller" an inferno. nj various time
; recently. Inqurcr' were told there wa
n no inferno by that name, Some Of thos
10 who called said that Miller had said he Wa
y medical graduate OF Johns Hopkins.
Besides the pawntickets, there wei
found in Millers pockets several cards
Young women. many with pencilled note
, an IN ha ck