The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1916-10-29
ALLEGED GIRL BETRAYER
ATTACKED BY FATHER
IN THE COURT ROOM.
SHOOTING CAUSES
MUCH EXCITEMENT
Ingram Only Slightly Wound
ed, and Citizens Threated to
Finish Job.

Aberdeen. Miss. Oct 2s.-Th
entire city is full Of excitement a
a result Of G. G. Miller, father o
Miss Mary Miller, the pretty younI
school teacher of Plattsburg, Miss.
who was murdered here severa
months ago, shooting Clyde Ingram
the man, it is alleged, who ruineC
his daughter
Court had just adjourned Thurs
day afternoon when Miller, who hat
been in the court room all day. got
up from his seat, walked up onto the
raised platform where the attorneys
sit and where Ingram Lee and
Broomfield were standing pulled his
| pistol and fired at Ingram. The bul-
let went through Migrants arm near
the elbow. The wounded man
dropped to the floor and Miller
pounced on him and snapped his pis-
toll three times. Any of these shots
would have killed Ingram. When
the excitement was over a number
of the spectators had vacated the
court room.
Miller was arrested and placed in
the Monroe county Jail by Deputy
Sheriff T. O. Jones, to remain there
but 80 minutes. Three hundred gen.
tlemen rushed to the sheriff and
signed his bond, and there was not
man that would not have gone on
the bond for his release. Ingram
was looked after by DR.. Lee, and It
| is thought he was spirited away in
an automobile.
When interviewed Mr., Miller said
that if he could call back 10 years
when he was on the plains he would
have "shot the dog through the heart
the first shot" He said that he in
tended killing Ingram first and then
getting Dr. Lee; that he did not want
the negro, Broomfield, as he thought
he was least guilty of the three.
Miller was very grateful to the
people who rushed to get his release,
and, with tears in his eyes, said that
he felt little relieved, having tried
to kill the dog that entered his home
and ruined, then murdered his daugh-
ter, Mary
Feeling again has been stirred up
as never before, and talk of forming
a mob and finishing what the father
started is heard on the streets.
Clyde Ingram and Miss Mary Mil
Ter taught school together in Wins
ton county, and they attended the A.
& NJ Mississippi Normal last sum.
mer, 1t was at this time that
Ingram brought Miss Miller to Aber-
deem and placed her in negro
boarding house which was run by
Salie Scott. He then, it is charged,
engaged Dr. F. L. Lee to perform
criminal operation, which resulted
in the young girls death several days
after the operation, at the home Of
Dr. Lee, the girl having been moved
from the negro's house by Dr. Lee.
DR.. Broomfield, a negro doctor, was
called in by DR.. Lee to administer
the anesthetic.
After the girls death she was
moved to the undertaker's parlors
in the Henderson Hardware Com
pany's building. Mr.. Miller, her
father was wired to come at once,
that his daughter was dead When
he arrived in Aberdeen he was met
at the train by Clyde Ingram, and
they rode up to the hardware store
together. The father says that he
suspected Ingram all the time, and
would have killed him that night had
he pistol TO do il with
Mr.. Miller said before he left that
he stood it just as long as he could,
and that when Judge Clayton an
ried TO Corinth, he believed that the
three men would be freed, and that
he had better kill Ingram and Lee
and bring the affair to a close.
Citizens Of Aberdeen are going te
take up a subscription and employ
the best attorney in Alcorn county
to help select jury to try the three
aecusod man