Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-07
MILLER BOUND OVER FOR
TRIAL ON MURDER CHARGE
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wichita, Kansas. where a widow and
several grown children survive. s.
II. Chatter, a brother, who was at
Union Mills on his annual visit as the
head of the various Chatter mill
properties. returned to Wichita Tues
day afternoon with his brothers
body.
Miller, who is AZ years old. has
been employed by the Chattens all
his life, coming here three years ago
as sales manager. The tragedy left
the mill town without a postmaster,
as William Chatter had held that
position, with Miller as assistant.
Greenman Chief Witness.
Superintendent Greenman was the
chief witness called by the state
Thursday morning. He testified as
to the location of his and the Miller
home and said that he was sitting at
a window in the lumber company's
office overlooking these houses and
was talking to S. H. Chatten, who
had just arrived from Portland, when
he heard the, first shot, about Is or
20 minutes of 10.
Il looked out of the window" he
testified, land saw three more
flashes of a gun and as ran past a
window out of the Office l saw an
other. Just as turned the corner
of the Office building I saw one man
about 100 feet away, running toward
the office, and about 80 feet behind
him a man and woman running and
struggling.
II didn't recognize any of them,
but l ran up to the man and woman
and yelled at them: What the hell
is going on here?' The woman, who
was graphing with the man as he
tried to reload the gun, said to me:
oh, Mr.. Greenman. help me- and
the man said: Now, you keep out
of this-this is none of your affair
now you get out of this recog-
nized them then as A. l.. Miller and
his wife, and tried to grab him but
he broke away from both of US, ran
out to the county road and turned
around and faced the office. He
raised his gun and tried to shoot but
it failed to go off and he tried it
again and it did.
Took Gun Away From Him.
81 ran up to him and said: For
Gods sake, man; think of your fam
lily and the penitentiary.' and he re-
piled: Pm thinking of the man
who ruined my home Then I took
the gun away from him"
The first person, whom he later
recognized as William Chatter, fell
near the Office building, Greenman
testified. With the help of another
man and S. H. Chatter, Greemar
said he carried the wounded man
into the Office and laid him on q
stenographer's desk until bed could
be improvised, and put in call for
an Olympia physician. This, in gen
eral, was Greenman's testimony, in
terrupted by questions from the at
torneys. much of his time being given
over to explaining the details Of the
scene and the location of the various
buildings.
DR.. j. W. NOVEL;, who attended
Chatter at the mill and had him
transferred to the local hospital, was
the first witness called. In his testi-
mony it was brought out that Chat
ten had been shot twice, one bullet
entering the back near the spinal
column and the other the left hip
and lodging just under the skin of
the abdomen. The operation, per-
formed by himself and Doctors Ing
nam anu lcupdtH, oHO"Cu ehoS IhS
intestines had been perforated 16
times. DIR. Mowell's testimony was
substantiated by DR.. 1ngham. The
revolver with which the shooting was
done, the bullets taken from Chat
tens body and the empty cartridges
picked up where Miller stopped to
reload his gun, were introduced as
evidence.
Sheriff McCorkle was the last wit
ness called by the prosecuting attor-
ney at the morning session. He told
Of going directly to the lumber com
pany's Office with Deputy Jack Gift
ford and being directed to the Miller
home, where he found Mr.. and Mrs
Miller and the three children. As
Prosecuting Attorney Yantis at
tempted to have the sheriff testify as
to the conversation he had with Mil.