Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
DETECTIVES SLAYER
FACES COURT AGAIN
Smiles at His Sobbing Sister.
Voice Breaks When He Tells
Coroner His Age.

Jacob, alias "Doggic." Miller. confessed
slayer Of Detective James Namely and
Detective Harry Tucker, stood In the
dock in the Coroners Court today and
heard the details Of the death Of tho
second victim Of his automatic revolver
without emotion. After he had been
formally identified fot the second time
within a month as The murderer he
glanced about the crowded hearing room
and smiled as he caught the eye of his
sister. Mary Miller. who was sobbing in
her seat The young gunman will appear
before the Grand Jury next Saturday
which will he his goth birthday anniver-
sary.
The only feeling betrayed by the young
prisoner was exhibited when he was
asked his age He had given his name
in a firm voice. His hands, resting on the
dock, were as steady as the wood railing
he clasped. When the second question
came he lost control of his emotions for
an instant A shudder passed through his
slight frame.
II won't be 20 until next Saturday" he
whispered in a voice barely audible to
the two reserve policeman stationed at
his side. His reply had to be repeated
by the bluecoats for the benefit of the
court attendants. The former sailor then
gave his address at 9O7 Morris street.
A short time before being brought to
the Coroner's court, the young prisoner
had also carried himself through a pre-
vious ordeal without flinchnE. This was
when he was arraigned before Magistrate
Beaton at Central Station. While the
detectives were Identifying him, Miller
noticed the big reserve policeman on duty
a the entrance TO the City Hall police
court leave his station. The bluecoat
had been eyeng him narrowly Miller's
gaze failed to finch. although he. knew
the policeman was Andrew Namely,
brother of his first victim.
Young Miller was taken to the Coro-
ner's Court after being arraigned a short
time previously before Magistrate Beaton
in Central Police Court. Here he was
identified by Detective Adam Ulrich who
testified that he had arrested the con-
fessed murderer
The proceedings were short and similar
TO the previous coroner's inquest into the
death of Detective Namely. Francis
Tracy Iobn, an attorney who has been
retained by the young gunman's sister
attempted to show that fuckers death
was due to diphtheria. He also stated
that the ante-mortem identincations of
Tucker had been forced from the wound
ed detective and declared that Tucker
had pointed out Miller as the slayer after
prompting by detectives who brought
him to the detectives deathbed.
DIR. Frank T.. McEvoy, of the resident
staff OF the Episcopal Hospital. declared
on the stand that diphtheria had nothing
to do with the death of the detective.
He said he had succumbed to a bullet
The shot, he said had paralyzed
Tucker from the third vertebra down and
lodged in the spinal column. One lung
had been punctured, he said, which pre-
vented the doctors from attempting TO
probe for the bullet.
Coroner's Physician William Wadsworth |
also testified that the post-mortem ex-
of the dead detectives body
showed Conclusively that his death had |
resulted from the bullet young Miller ad-
hitting sending into his captors body
before killing Namely
Detectives Belshaw, Oscar Brown and |
Olynieczak also testified.
The detectives gave short accounts OF |
he crime. Tucker and Namely they |
said were shot on the evening of March .
3, in an alley near Trenton avenue and |
Cambria street. Belshaw and Brown also |
old of their assailants subsequent cap
ure the next morning, and Of his con-
'ession.
After the inquest he was hurried under
strong guard to detective headquarters
md then returned TO Moyamenslng
Prison. He told the police he was glad
he ordeal was over. According to the
detectives, the young prisoner appears to
,e of the opinion that he Will escape the
electric chair on account OF his youth