Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-22
+. 4. Miller. IIaIfbrccd. Ar
rested Yesterday; In
County JAIN.
WOOLLEY ON THE CASE
Man Here Is Supposed to
Have Killed Wealthy
paWurc Farmer.

A months search. which oNtcudcd
throughout oklahoma into Missouri
and parts of TcNl-. ended yesterday
moruiur when udrrs hcuu carl
Lewis and Deputy sheriff George Best
arrested f. A Miller q hall breed
Mexican. ON west Fourth street Mil
lor is wanted for the killing Of Cor
nclus Huurhis % bachelor farmer
who lived south Of raWuoc Miller was
lodged iu tho county jail aud ls bong
held without bail.
Boorhis. y years old ald roputod 10
be worth several thousand dollars, had
lived as hermit ON his rich hawncc
county farm for years. ON February
. last. he mystcrously disappeared.
a family liVur two miles distant from
Boorhis' hum, were his nearest neigh
bors. when hc disappeared his only
team ana wagon also were missed,
Find Body IN River.
A younger brother Of Boorhs a
Pawucc merchant Immediately began
an investigation. 1t was the theory
of the county officials 10 whom 1t was
reported that Eourhis, being AN aged
man. had become temporarily insane
and hitChcd his team 10 "a wagon and
drove away For more than month
officials worked ON this theory when
every means was exhausted, the body
of AN unknown man was found lu the
Arkansas river near IaWucc.
Several days later the body was
Identified ass that of BuorhIs The case
was reported to sheriff James Wool
ley, who Immediately started work
lie obtained clues that fastened the
blame on Miller After a week. .s in
Vestieation Miller was finally located
NJ L.. IN
there los household goods he shipped
10y freight into a Texas town. From
there the goods were shipped 10 Tulsa.
Comes To- Tulsa
Last Monday Woollcy located a
shipment of goods In the Frisco
freight depot here consigned TO "f A..
Miller" clerks were instructed to
call the shcriffs office when Miller
called, but one Of the clerks spoiled
the officers plans when he uuwit-
tinRly told Miller that the sheriff had
levied ON the consignment.
BccomlnE suspicious, Miller hur-
ricdly left the depot When sheriff
Woolcy and Sheriff Woollcy, Under
sheriff Carl LOWS and Deputy George
Woollcy. ludorsh,nff Carl Lewis and
Deputy George Best arrived Miller
was gone Woolloy and Lewis i'm
mediatoly started I'm search Of him, lie
was found and arrested as ne gas go
ing west ON West Fourth street
Another clever piece of detective
work which was engineered 10y Wool
ley was the detention OF Millcr's wife
and four children at the county poor
farm. Without money, Mrs. Miller
unhcsitatingN accepted the urgent
hospitality Of the county officers This
they figured, would assist IN the de
tcntion of Miller iu Tulsa and would
give them more time in which To 10
cate him,
\ reward of 500 has been offered
for Millcr's arrest
shot in the Back
only mCarcr details of the actual
killing OF Boorhis have been learned
by officials, but the arrcsting officers
Yesterday said that Miller called at the
old farmers home. lie called him
outside for "A conversations when
Boorhis turned away from Miller he
was shot in the back of the head with
II Winchester rifle.
Officers believe that Miller then
hitched Boorhls' team to his wagon.
threw the dead mans body into II
and drove to the Arkansas river and
dropped 1t into the river About
$40 is alleged to have been taken or
of BoorhiS lay Miller.
The team and wagon were located
at Tcrltou, where II rs alleged that
they had been LEFT 10y Miller