The Washington times., 1913-12-14
While He Spends Christmas in
Cell, They Must Fight Life's
Battles Alone.
LITTLE GIRL MUST WAIT
20 YEARS FOR DADDY
Continued from First Page.)

tor But as the year progressed, rum
ors grew and multiplied. The man evil
IDENTIFY was under severe strain which
brought on nervous prostration. His
business associates looked in vain for
The funds which were supposed to be in
his charge and on July 9. 1908, the safe
Of the company was opened.
1t contained not a dollar.
That was q sad night in Georgetown.
Tradesmen, laborers, widows, young
their own cozy home-all saw their
GcaTly won savings vanish at breath.
To some of them, the betrayed conf
dence of a trusted friend was greater
tlow than the pecuniary loss. Mean
while, Miller slowly recovered but the
hope that Some day he would explain
ii all never has been fulfilled.
Failure of Civil Actions.
Civil actions failed to accomplish much
and the first indictment was returned
April 5. 1909. charging a violation Of the
District Code. which reads:
Whoever, with intent TO defraud or
iniure another person, shall take away
or conceal any writing whereby the
estate or right of such person shall or
may be defeated, injured or altered,
shall suffer Imprisonment Tor not more
than seven years"
ment was returned. charging embezzle-
ment in thirty-four counts, and the
first trial. on two of these counts, start
ed June ! of the same year before JUS
tice Stafford. in the District Supreme
Court. Attorneys Henry E. Davis and
John E. Laskey appeared for the de-
fense and the citizens Of Georgetown
crowded the court room.
For nearly two weeks the case con-
tinued. and on June 13 the jury brought
fa~ .f
without a change of expression. The
road to the barred cell was long and
devious, and many avenues of escape
were opel to him. Two days later Jus
tice Stafford sentenced him to ten years
in the Denitentiary on each of the two
Counts on which he was convicted.
New Trial Granted.
The defendants bail was raised from
$4,000 10 $4,000 and an appeal to the
higher court taken. The evidence Of the
Low er court was reviewed at length, and
finally it was held that Miller was en-
titled to a new trial because Justice
Stafford, in charging the jury, had said:
The statute does not require a de-
fendant convicted of embezzlement to
be sent to the penitentiary at all. He
may be sent there, or he may be fined,
or he may be fined and sent there"
This, the Appellate Court ruled. might
have misled the jury. The opinion was
read by Justice Robb. Chief Justice
dissenting
The second trial of Miller began June
1, 1911, this time before Justice Wright
Again, the men and women who had
lost their money appeared against the
man that they had once trusted, and
again, on the 18th of June, a verdict OF
guilty Has brought in. This time Mil
Ter showed that he was human. Tears
weiled (: ON his eyes for a moment, but
he dried them hurriedly, and was soon
his Impassive self again.
Justice Wright did not pronounce SEN
tence till ten days later. He gave Miller
ten years on each of the two counts, as
Justice Stafford had done, but init
mated that il the book were restored
the sentence might be mitigated.
Il don't see how a more grfevous
case OF eD.bezzlemenr could be con-
ceived." said Justice Wright in pro-
sentence. THE association
was destroyed, the property looted and
made away with by the defendant, and
rights of the depositors and stockhold-
ers were utterly disregarded.
Leniency Promised by Court.
IT the defendant saw fit to disclose
the books and produce them, there
might be reason for substantial diminu-
tiCn Cf the sentence. II the defendant