New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-13
BOYS FAST PACE LANDS
HIM BEHIND THE BARS
Young College Student Accused
by Women He Met in New York
of PaWning Their JeweIry.
ADMITS GUILT, SAY POLICE
Gold Watch He Did Not Return
to One Acquaintance Leads Her
to Cause His Arrest in
Broadway at Night.

John Townsend Miller twenty-five
vears old who saws he is the son OF
John Francis Miller. Of Ridgefield, y. j..
was arrested at Broadway and 34th
street last evening and locked up In
Police Headquarters on charge or
grand larceny. Miss Alice Johnson. who
boards in the same house with Miller, at.
No. 81 West 11th street, told Detectives
.Deitsch and Unger. Of the Contra! Office,
that Miller took her 500 watch from her
on April and wouldn't return it.
Miller who is an Amherst man Of the
class OF 10, and a member OF the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity made clean breast
of his guilt. according to the police.
Twenty-Five pawn tickets were found In
his pockets. and calling cards galore. In
Guiding the names of several prominent
actresses and a number Of girls in So
ciety Miller said his mother had been
indulgent and had given him generous
allowances. but his life in Broadway led
him such pace that he finally found
himself at the top notch speed and short
of money That was why he had found
it necessary to pur!oin other peoples
jewelry.
one of the pawn tickets was for dia-
mond and emerald ring. on which $500
had been lent. Miller told the police
that this ring was worth 81 800 and be-
longed TO Miss Dorothy Posner,
daughter Of Samuel Posner, a member
of the New York Stock Exchange, Of No.
III Broadway At the Posner home. No.
who said she was Miss Posner's sister
admitted that Miss Posner owned ring
answering the description furnished by
Miller. but her voice was quickly sue
ceeded by that Of man who said ne
was Samuel Posner and that his daugh-
ter didn't claim any acquaintance with
John Townsend Miller. Miller told the
police he met Miss Posner in Atlantic
City.
Other women who turned over jewelry
or more or less value to Miller's keeping
included a Miss Johnson, chief telephone
operator in the Grand Central Station.
and Miss Butler trained nurse IN
Roosevelt Hospital. He told the po-
lice that he was student OF medicine
when it pleased him to study, but the
society Of young women about town. he
admitted, was far more fascinating 10
him than materia medica. AT MISS
.Johnson's boarding house. in West 1lth
street. IL was said he was known there
as Doc" as he had told the boarders
he was a graduate Of Johns Hopkins
Medical School.
The prisoner. who is big fellow
with handsome features. was inclined to
veep at times. and made no effort 10
hide his remorse AS he talked he grew
more confidential. and before long had
told the police that he owed big bills at
the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Phlla~
delphia and at Rector's and the Hotel
Victoria in this city. He said he owed
James Churchill. proprietor Of Church
ilrs restaurant. a bill of S292 ~, which
he worked up on the strength OF poul-
try farm which he told Churchill his
father had left him up the state. Church
III is said to have investigated Millers
property affairs. with the result that
Miller's father has been asked to settle.
When asked about his family the
prisoner said his grandfather was John
Miller, formerly president OF the Equi
table Fire Insurance Company. and that
his father John Francis Miller. was at
enc time secretary of the company, but
was later employed by the Lincoln Trust
Company. Asked where he studied med
icine. Miller said he had attended no
regular medical school but had been
allowed frequently To avail himself of
facilities in Roosevelt Hospital. At that
institution Z was said last night that
Miller was unknown there.
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