Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-26
BODIES OF MILLER
AND MOTHER DUE
HERE TOMORROW
Missing Musician, Found
Dead, and Mother, Wbo
Died S eeking e Him
A bro a d, Will IIsv.
Double Funeral.

The body Of selden Miller, ve,1-sn,-.
orsanist, choral leader and art potr..
who disappeared from his ho,,,o A.,
south 10th street. year ago, is expec,.a
10 arrive In this city tomorrow from
Chicago.
Miller was found dead In the Pike Rive,
north of Kenosha, Wisconsin, II dave 49,
and the body was identified as tba, 80 :.
man known as Alfred Freeman v,.
played piano in moving picture houses
at Milwaukee.
Emlen Hare Miller, brother of n.
dead man, went to Kenosha after ,bo
body had been buried and had II dslr.
TERED. 1t is believed the family is nlan.
ming a double funeral. as the mother a,
the dead man died a month ago at Mania.
Italy, where she was continuing the
worldwide search for her son.
e. Spencer, Miller, Jr, a brother of the
dead man, started for New York TODAY
to meet the Carpathia, on which another
brother, Dickinson Miller, Is bringing
back the body of their mother. Mr.
Miller declined to make any statement
this morning. He said the question n,
a double funeral does not concern the
public.
Mr.. Miller said he did not believe his
bother was mentally deranged when hs
left home. He is not prepared to saw
that his brother met with foul play. but
may discuss the possibility of such being
the case when the family is reunited.
Services for Mrs. Miller and her son
probably will be held at the family home
and the Rev. DR.. David NJ. Steele is ex-
pected to offlciate.
The Rev. Dr. Carl f. Grammer, of St
Stephens Church, spoke in high terms
OF the young mans musical talents. He
said that two compositions of Miller.
When Morning Glds the Skies" and
AN Evening Hymn" were of such char
acter that he often asked Miller to have
them published.
Every effort was made at Kenosha and
at Chicago to keep secret the identity
of the dead man, according to dispatches
The name of Emlen Hare Miller was dis
covered only by accident. He carried a
letter signed by Director of Public Safety
Porter. it is said. when he reached
Kenosha. This asked that his business
be regarded as strictly confidential.
J. f. Morgan, Of Milwaukee, the man
in whose home Miller boarded, Is quoted
in dispatches as declaring that there was
something odd about the musician. Nor
gan and his family did not believe that
his right name was Freeman, as they
saw the name "Selden" on some of his
jewelry.
Officials of the italian Government
were enlisted in the search for the musI-
clan by his family. After the studios
and Conservatives here and in New
York had been thoroughly combed fol-
lowing his disappearance. Dickinson Mil
Ter, Selden's brother. went to Florencs
In the hope of finding him at the Miller
villa. near that city.
All efforts to locate him In Italy proved
futile. 1t was intimated at various times
that the family knew his whereabouts,
and, according to the Milwaukee man
with whom he boarded, Miller had been 8
treated at a sanitarium there. HIS
friends attributed his disappearance to !
a nervous breakdown due to close appil-
cation to his musical work.
Miller was interim organist at one OF the
city's largest churches at the age OF II
years. His father f. Spencer Miller, was
a noted member of the Philadelphia bar
At the age of 10 years young Miller was
made regular organist at st. Lukes.
His teachers were Louis Forman, BenJa-
min Cross and David Wood, the famous
blind organist at st. Stephens. He acted
as conductor of various choral organia-
lions here and conducted grand opera az
he Theatre Nazionale in Rome Florence
and other Italian cities.